EditorialEveraldo Santos Melo, a cattle rancher who leads a local farmers’ union and is part of a growing number of landowners organizing against land occupations, in Itamaraju, Brazil, on April 16, 2023. (Maria Magdalena Arrellaga/The New York Times)
EditorialEveraldo Santos Melo, a cattle rancher who leads a local farmers’ union and is part of a growing number of landowners organizing against land occupations, in Itamaraju, Brazil, on April 16, 2023. (Maria Magdalena Arrellaga/The New York Times)
EditorialLocal landowners in Valley Springs, S.D., look at a Facebook video promoting the proposed carbon capture pipeline that would pass through their property on Dec. 21, 2022. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialRoger Hill, who has sued to have the state clarify its laws around one of his favorite fly-fishing grounds, fly fishes on the Arkansas River east of Cotopaxi, Colo., near where a homeowner once threw rocks at him, July 31, 2022. (Benjamin Rasmussen/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Calilo resort on the Greek island of Ios, where the owners built on 1 percent of the property they bought from 2,137 landowners and left the rest untouched, Aug. 12, 2022. (Maria Mavropoulou/The New York Times)
EditorialThe cremation of Dr. Philip Incao at the country’s only public open-air funeral pyre, in his adopted hometown of Crestone, Colo., March 5, 2022. (Trent Davis Bailey/The New York Times)
EditorialA construction crane on the Caribbean island of St. Barts, where development has made millionaires of some landowners, Feb. 12, 2022. (Jean Vallette/The New York Times)
EditorialCongress SceneSecretary of the Interior Deb Haaland during a Senate subcommittee hearing in Washington on June 16, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)
EditorialKarl Zages, president of a surface rights group that represents landowners facing battles with the oil and gas industry, closes a gate near a suspended well on land he owns near St. Francis, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 17, 2020. (Alec Jacobson/The New York Times)
EditorialAn old watchtower, part of the old border between East and West Germany, is preserved in the village of M?dlareuth, Germany, on Sept. 25, 2020. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
EditorialFigurines representing the ancestors of the landowners of the Baan Pitak condominium complex at the consecration ceremony of the complex’ spirit house in Bangkok, May 18, 2020. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)