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Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds

Tribal lands studied sequester far more carbon than non-Indigenous regions. Yet Indigenous’ rights are often ignored and the forests the tribes protect are exploited or lost.

By Katie Surma

Aerial view of Brazilian mining multinational Vale at the Corrego do Feijao mine in Brumadinho, Belo Horizonte's metropolitan region, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on Dec. 17, 2019. Credit: Douglas Magno/AFP via Getty Images

Backed by International Investors, Mining Companies Line Up to Expand in or Near the Amazon’s Indigenous Territories

By Katie Surma

Rancher Jaim Teixeira surveys the landscape at the edge of his property, near Trairão in the Brazilian state of Pará. Teixeira lit the forest on fire to clear it so he can graze his cattle, though burning primary rainforest in the Amazon is illegal. Credit: Larry Price

The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault

By Georgina Gustin

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on Aug. 24, 2019. Credit: Lula Sampaio/AFP via Getty Images

COP26 Presented Forests as a Climate Solution, But May Not Be Able to Keep Them Standing

By Bob Berwyn

Smoke rises from an illegally lit fire in a section of Amazon rainforest, south of Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil, on Aug. 15, 2020. Credit: Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images

In the Amazon, the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to Fire and Deforestation

By Georgina Gustin

Arara indigenous children walk at the Arado tribal camp, in Arara indigenous land in Para state, Brazil on March 13, 2019. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

Are Bolsonaro’s Attacks on the Amazon and Indigenous Tribes International Crimes? A Third Court Plea Says They Are

By Katie Surma

Activists hold up a banner of Jair Bolsonaro as they gather in front of the Brazilian Embassy during a demonstration organized by Extinction Rebellion activists on Aug. 26, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. Credit: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

Indigenous Leaders and Human Rights Groups in Brazil Want Bolsonaro Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity

By Katie Surma

Trees Fell Faster in the Years Since Companies and Governments Promised to Stop Cutting Them Down

By Georgina Gustin

President Joe Biden delivers remarks as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and former Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with 40 world leaders at the East Room of the White House April 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images

As Nations Gather for Biden’s Virtual Climate Summit, Ambitious Pledges That Still Fall Short of Paris Goal

By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin, Nicholas Kusnetz

Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin, on Aug. 27, 2019. Credit: Joao Laet/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Summit ‘Last Chance’ for Brazil to Show Leadership on Global Warming

By Augusta Saraiva

US Forest Report May Fuel More Deforestation in Brazil

By Stacy Feldman

Deepwater Concerns Delay $25Bn Stock Offering of Brazil's Oil Company, Petrobras

By Guest Writer

China, Germany Lead the Race Toward a Low-Carbon Economy

By Dave Levitan

Food Sovereignty: New Approach to Farming Could Help Solve Climate, Economic Crises

By Max Ajl

BASIC Bloc Latest Countries to Brush Off Copenhagen Accord

By Stacy Feldman

One Change Could Cut Brazil's Carbon Emissions in Half

By Max Ajl

Forests Loom Large at Governors' Global Climate Summit

By Leslie Berliant

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