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A movement of cooperative oyster farming is growing in Southeast Alaska and producing some of the world’s best oysters.

By: Paula Dobbyn

How the Suquamish Tribe is finding ways to harvest, educate, and prepare for ongoing plant cycle alternations due to climate change.

By: Lyric Aquino, Underscore Native News + Report for America

When language flows from a place of knowing.

By: CMarie Fuhrman

A new report links data centers with a strong push for natural gas.

By: Audrey Leonard

Six First Nations, BC and Canada will preserve and steward a large chunk of the Central Coast. That means no pipelines.

By: Michelle Gamage

On Oregon’s North Coast, a strategic effort to remove nearly a hundred river barriers builds resiliency for fish and people.

By: Tara Lohan

The app was created by and for Coeur d’Alene Tribal members that features a user-friendly interface to make learning easy for everyone, from children to elders.

By: Lyric Aquino, Underscore Native News + Report for America

How a lake in British Columbia, Canada, once drained for settlement, is being considered for reflooding as an act of transboundary restoration by First Nations.

By: Cameron Fenton

While advocating for the Yakama Nation’s treaty-protected foods and practices, Harvey has become a leading voice for Indigenous sovereignty.

By: Nick Engelfried

An excerpt from Following the Good River: The Life and Times of Wa’xaid, which describes Magic Canoe’s founding vision of Wa’xaid, or Cecil Paul. 

By: Cecil Paul and Briony Penn

Wildtype, a San Francisco startup, recently secured FDA approval to bring ‘cultivated’ seafood to the market.

By: Josh Kozelj

Faye Cox, founder and editor-in-chief of Hourbooks, is dedicated to creating a library of hour-long books on essential topics for this critical time on the planet—books that are accessible and authoritative. Small books on big topics.

By: Nicholas Triolo

A podcast series about the rise of mariculture along the Oregon coast.

By: Kaïa Kirkbride

Solar North, the first large-scale solar project on a remote grid in B.C., is just the start.

By: Zoë Yunker

From the removal of fish migration barriers in Washington to the decades-long community effort to revive Seattle’s Duwamish River, our most-read stories of 2026, so far, celebrate ecological recovery across the bioregion.
How an entrepreneur invented seaweed pots to help gardeners grow healthier plants and sequester carbon.

By: Andrew Engelson

These Vancouver Island foragers make everything from mushroom powders to pickled spruce tips. Thank you, wild places.

By: Ryan Stuart

By using solar panels to control where shade falls on agricultural lands, growers can save water, reduce plant stress, increase crop yields, all while producing electricity.

By: Syris Valentine

Acting on behalf of 15 tribal nations, Yup’ik leader Alannah Acaq Hurley led a campaign that stopped the proposed Pebble Mine megaproject in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.

By: Goldman Environmental Prize

Suzanne Simard’s new book, a New York Times bestseller, is an ode to the enduring, interlocking world of loss and regeneration.

By: Nicholas Triolo

“Ologies” is a comedic science podcast hosted and produced by writer, actress, science-correspondent, comedian, and self-proclaimed “pod-dad” Alie Ward. The series has, previously, been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s top 50 podcasts.

By: Kaïa Kirkbride

They’ve saved voyagers for centuries. Now, a federal partnership provides training, but rebuilding trust is crucial.

By: Adrienne Mason

A half-century ago, the Indigenous Tsimshian village of Metlakatla, in Southeast Alaska, preserved its reservation when others in Alaska were terminated. Today, the reserve sustains a thriving fishing industry — and the tribe is fighting in court to expand its territory.

By: Nathaniel Herz

Magic Canoe was on the ground for one of the largest ecocultural events of the year in Salmon Nation, which brought thousands of changemakers and creatives together last month in Berkeley, California. Here’s what we found.

By: Soraya Matos, Words and Photography

Grab a paddle. It’s time to work together.

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