By John Sammon | Nov 14, 2021
American officials with the U.S. State Department called on the government and people of Ethiopia to end a civil war that has lasted for a year and which threatens to kill thousands more in a resulting famine in the East African country.
By John Sammon | Nov 12, 2021
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will contribute $5 million to aid women and girls in poor and developing countries with maternal health and contraceptives while promoting gender equality and preventing violence against women.
By John Sammon | Oct 29, 2021
Tracy Stone-Manning, a resident of Montana, was recently confirmed as the director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), despite accusations from conservatives that she was an eco-extremist who advocated spiking trees in the 1980s.
By John Sammon | Oct 22, 2021
Planners who operate California’s Central Valley Project (CVP) and the State Water Project (SWP), a network of water reservoirs and lines serving one of the richest agricultural farming areas in the world, are gearing up to deal with a record-breaking drought.
By John Sammon | Sep 28, 2021
An annual release of the California condor into the wild was held virtually this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By John Sammon | Sep 28, 2021
Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi, the site of a decisive Civil War battle that determined the outcome of the war, will begin selling digital (cashless) entrance passes beginning on Oct. 3.
By John Sammon | Aug 20, 2021
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Bryan Newland Aug. 7 as Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs for the Department of the Interior.
By John Sammon | Aug 20, 2021
Deb Haaland, America’s first Native American U.S. Secretary of the Interior, journeyed to Taholah, a coastal Quinault Indian reservation community in Grays Harbor County, Washington, to discuss the impacts of climate change including rising oceans and erosion.
By John Sammon | Jul 7, 2021
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) said her department launched a Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative last month at a National Congress of American Indians Midyear 2021 Conference in Washington, D.C.
