EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is a collaboration between The Associated Press and Grist.

A project is underway to help one of the Niagara River and Lake Erie’s most important fish thrive despite decades of manmade impacts to the ecosystem. The effort is being undertaken by the U.S. Army ...

The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock as a way to treat them more like elk or deer rather than like cattle. Because the two tribes share the same ...