The World from PRX

Washington State

Rick Desautel, flanked by his daughter and his wife, Linda (right), celebrates his acquittal of illegal hunting charges outside the provincial courthouse in Nelson, British Columbia, in March 2017.
Justice
Canada says the Sinixt tribe is extinct. The tribe’s American descendants disagree.
Arts, Culture & Media
Robot Hut
Wildlife cops
Justice
Underfunded wildlife enforcement in the Pacific Northwest fails to keep up with poachers
Canyon grassland
Environment
Invasive species threaten native grasslands in the Pacific Northwest
Noel Gomez
Development
A conversation with Noel Gomez, sex trafficking survivor-turned-advocate
Scientists with the US Geological Survey gather samples near coal train tracks in the Columbia Gorge near Washougal, Washington. Little research has been done on how coal interacts with the environment.
Environment
Scientists dig into booming coal exports and their effects on wetlands