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A pumpjack oil pump rises from the middle of a residential community in a city.
The California state legislature passed a slate of bills that tighten up its climate plans, including those addressing oil drilling, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon offsets and other climate goals.
An aerial view of a Southern California neighborhood where roofs of houses have solar panels
A California non-profit is retrofitting homes to make a "virtual power plant" — and fighting gentrification at the same time.
The fourth person from the left, Bii Gallardo help hold a banner that reads "DEFEND THE SACRED" during the L.A. Women’s March in January 2020.
“I’ve fallen in love with working with my community and working for social justice and environmental rights,” says Bii Gallardo. Those are the reasons why the Apache and Yaqui activist works so hard to recognize Indigenous voices and fight for environmental justice.
A man in a blue jacket smiles in front of a lake.
For Michael Preston of the Winnemem Wintu tribe, salmon are important. An artist, activist, filmmaker and dancer, his tribe's goal is to bring the salmon back to California's McCloud River. But it's more than just about the fish, he said. With the lack of salmon, which is a keystone species, other animals, such as bears, eagles and mountain lions are being starved.
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Greta Thunberg, who launched the global Fridays for Future youth climate movement, issued a stark warning on the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement that the world is not doing enough to keep global heating below 2 degrees Celsius.
Kai Anderson's power map of the environmental campaigns led by Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada during his long career in Congress.
Kai Anderson’s eye-catching, multi-colored, hand-drawn thematic maps have developed a cult following in conservation circles in the American West. He walks us through a map he created of Sen. Harry Reid's major environmental campaigns.
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto describes her state’s role in national politics.
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Cortez Masto has a goal to grow a clean energy economy that includes jobs for the future.
Someone reaching into the water at Bonanza Spring in the Mojave Desert. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Preserving the Desert with the NALC"
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The Native American Land Conservancy protects sacred tribal lands in the Mojave Desert.
Cheryl Seidner and other members of the Wiyot tribe at a hearing for Terra-Gen's wind farm proposal. | Still from "Tending Nature" episode "Guarding Ancestral Grounds with the Wiyot"
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The Wiyot tribe from Humboldt County have fought for restored access to their land.
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