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An investigation into the deadly business of building oil and gas pipelines.

How we uncovered the numbers behind pipeline construction fatalities.

Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it—and why they've risked it all on Donald Trump to keep them afloat.

Inside the effort to reintroduce grizzlies to California.

On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.

Over the last 10 years, the poaching and trafficking of animal products has become the fourth-highest-grossing crime in the world. But because wildlife crime is not bound by national borders and each country has its own rules and ideas, its management and policing has become unwieldy at best.

Australian plant ecologist Brenton Ladd wants to reengineer the notoriously nutrient-poor soils in the Amazon, and, in the process, save the world's trees. But first, he has to convince Peruvian farmers and non-profits—and occasionally, his own research team—that he's not just another gringo with a strange idea.

The agency has left immigrants and minorities to fend for themselves at toxic waste sites across the country.

La agencia ha dejado a los inmigrantes y las minorías a valerse por sí mismos en los sitios de desechos tóxicos en todo el país.

A Native writer struggling against the ignorance of white culture finds that her stories are her lifeline, her wounds are her power, and though the scales have been weighted against her in almost every way, there are many reasons to survive.

"This is where we make our living. This is how we live."

By virtue of both income and ethnicity, new Americans have the odds stacked against them when it comes to finding a healthy place to live.

In colonial Virginia, authorities could hang settlers for a crime as small as stealing grapes or killing a neighbor's chicken. The penal code in America's first colony was, in fact, so harsh its governor eventually reduced the number of capital offenses out of fear that settlers would refuse to live there. Since then, the number and severity of crimes punishable by death in the United States have fluctuated; today, the death penalty is still legal in 31 states. Here are some of the critical turning points in the history of capital punishment in America.

From growing up in rural Delaware to opening the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

When Josh Damigo finds out his brother is the new face of the white nationalist movement, finding the roots of radicalization becomes personal.

Celebrating three poets whose work is as trenchantly political as anything on an op-ed page: a poetry of labor, of representation, of hope.

During a time of great divisiveness, we look at the past for clues for how the nation can stay together through it all.

Fifty states is a lot, but we've almost had several others. Here are a few states that could have been, but never were.

The movement in Standing Rock was a vision of ourselves, as Native people: imperfect, beautiful, alive in the face of colonialism, and still rising.

The underrepresentation of women in government is not just bad for women; it's bad for democracy.