Indigenous rights

When members of the Oceti Sakowin gathered to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, they decided not to use violence against people. But property sabotage — well, that’s another question.

Three hundred years ago this Easter, Europeans landed on what they called "Easter Island," and ever since, the statues there have been a mystery. But the oral history has always been clear about how they were moved. The real mystery is: Why hasn't anyone been listening?

What happens when your community becomes the subject of a global mystery? A parable of human failure and ecological collapse? What’s the true story? And who gets to tell it?

There are places on the map where the roads end. The Darién Gap, or el Tapon del Darién, is one of them.Plus, how maps change the world.This episode first…

A tale of love, ancestry, and homeland, with an acorn at its heart.In the early 1900s, an Ohlone woman named Isabel Meadows was recorded describing her…

The National Parks are seen as a national treasure, touted by some as “America’s Best Idea.” But restricting access to the natural world as a method of…

When the debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge first emerged, most people had never heard of global warming. So over the last four…

The Gwich’in have lived and hunted in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge long before it was carved out as federal protected land. Their territory spans a…

The Threshold team visits Kaktovik, Alaska, the only town within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to find out how the conflict over drilling for oil…

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge began as a bold vision to preserve enough land to sustain a whole web of Arctic animals. Today, these 19 million…