Dr. Aaron Thomas, Diné, will take up his new position as director of the Native American Research Laboratories at the University of Montana in January...

Environmentalists have complained that the technique of oil extraction known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is too mysterious—drilling companies are often exempt from disc...

On April 3, tribal leaders met with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Denver to discuss a number of pertinent issues, including those related to booming oil and gas expl...

Not long ago, fracking—short for "hydraulic fracturing"—was an obscure method of extracting oil and natural gas...

The Tribal Council of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians has preemptively banned the oil extraction process known as fracking on reservation lands...

Hundreds rallied on the steps of the New York State capitol in Albany on April 11, the Associated Press reported, to protest the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a me...