Indigenous Peoples

Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find

A new peer-reviewed study examined the impact Indigenous territories have on human health in two categories of diseases, finding that municipalities located close to Indigenous lands with intact forests have a reduced risk.

By Katie Surma

Peru Votes Against Creating New Indigenous Reserve in Amazon Region

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Climate and Biodiversity Knowledge We Lose When Everything’s in English

By Kiley Price

US Guts Criticism of Indigenous Rights Abuses, Mentions of Climate Change From Annual Human Rights Reports

By Katie Surma, Peter Aldhous

The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want

By Katie Surma

Rich Countries’ Energy Transitions Threaten Indigenous Peoples and the Environment

By Katie Surma

Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands?

By Katie Surma

‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations

By Lauren Dalban

Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry

By Katie Surma

The Rights of Nature Become a Rallying Point Against an Ascendant Mining Industry

By Katie Surma

Indigenous Women Spotlight the Climate Crisis in New Mexico at Gathering Inside the Roundhouse

By Noel Lyn Smith

A Nickel Rush Threatens Indonesia’s Last Nomadic Tribes and Its Forests, Fishermen and Farmers

Text and photos by Garry Lotulung

Biden and Tribal Leaders Celebrate Four Years of Accomplishments on Behalf of Native Americans

By Noel Lyn Smith

Traditional Foods, and the Threats They Face, Take Center Stage at Navajo Summit

By Noel Lyn Smith

Changes May Ease Burdens of European Deforestation Regulation on Small Palm Farms, but Not the Confusion

Story and photos by James Whitlow Delano

Q&A: Near Lake Superior, a Tribe Fights to Remove a Pipeline From the Wetlands It Depends On

By Kiley Price

Behind the Scenes: Using Direct Democracy to Keep Oil in the Ground Is More Complex Than it Seems

By Kiley Price

This Country Voted to Keep Oil in the Ground. Will It Happen?

By Katie Surma

International Human Rights Commission Condemns ‘Fortress Conservation’

By Katie Surma