Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leaf Hillman, a member of the Karuk Tribe, above a former reservoir on the Klamath River in Hornbrook. (Brian van der Brug / Los ...

A controlled burn near the Klamath River in northern California. Frank K. Lake / U.S. Forest Service and Karuk Tribe In California, a state increasingly beset by devastating wildfires, the Karuk Tribe ...

A firefighter pulls a hose along the fireline on the Bacon Flat prescribed fire in September. Credit: Murphy Woodhouse, Boise State Public Radio This article is part of The State of Science, a series ...

The Karuk Tribe in Northern California is crafting an environmental policy that unites traditional knowledge with more contemporary environmental sciences–pushing back against years of bias dismissing ...

The Karuk Tribe urges Governor Newsom and all Californians to support Assembly Bill 263 (AB 263), a critical measure to protect California’s salmon populations, the cultural heritage of many ...

Jeremy Deaton writes for Nexus Media, a nonprofit climate change news service. You can follow him @deaton_jeremy. This story originally featured on Nexus Media News. Read more on the perils of America ...

Northern California's Karuk Tribe has for more than a century faced significant restrictions on cultural burning — the setting of intentional fires for both ceremonial and practical purposes, such as ...