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Corn Nourishes the Hopi Identity, but Climate-Driven Drought Is Stressing the Tribe’s Foods and Traditions

Most Hopi grow corn with only the precipitation that falls on their fields, but two decades of drought have some of them testing the waters of irrigation and hoping they can preserve other customs with their harvests.

By David Wallace

Ann Tenakhongva, right, 62, and her husband, Clark Tenakhongva, 65, sort traditional Hopi corn at their home on First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona in late September, 2022. The corn comes from the family's field in the valley between First Mesa and Second Mesa, which Clark had just harvested. The corn is organized on racks to dry out and then stored in cans and bins for years to come. Much of the corn is ground up for food and ceremonial uses. Credit: David Wallace

Mil Milhas na Amazônia, para Mudar a Maneira como o Mundo Funciona

By Katie Surma

Indigenous Leaders in Texas Target Global Banks to Keep LNG Export Off of Sacred Land at the Port of Brownsville

By Dylan Baddour

A Thousand Miles in the Amazon, to Change the Way the World Works

By Katie Surma

Despite Misunderstandings, Scientists and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Have Collaborated on Research Into Mercury Pollution

By Myriam Vidal

Warming Trends: The Climate Atlas of Canada Maps ‘the Harshities of Life,’ Plus Christians Embracing Climate Change and a New Podcast Called ‘Hot Farm’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Global Wildfire Activity to Surge in Coming Years

By Bob Berwyn

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

By Katie Surma

Beavers Are Flooding the Warming Alaskan Arctic, Threatening Fish, Water and Indigenous Traditions

By David Hasemyer

‘We’re Being Wrapped in Poison’: A Century of Oil and Gas Development Has Devastated the Ponca City Region of Northern Oklahoma

By Phil McKenna

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

By Georgina Gustin

Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People

By Nicholas Kusnetz

People dance together at the protest camp at Thacker Pass, Nevada on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Earlier in the day People of Red Mountain organized a remembrance of a massacre of indigenous people nearby on the same date in 1865. Credit: Spenser Heaps

Plans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition

By Cayte Bosler

Indigenous Women in Peru Seek to Turn the Tables on Big Oil, Asserting ‘Rights of Nature’ to Fight Epic Spills

By Katie Surma

To Stop Line 3 Across Minnesota, an Indigenous Tribe Is Asserting the Legal Rights of Wild Rice

By Katie Surma

Indigenous Climate Activists Arrested After ‘Occupying’ US Department of Interior

By Phil McKenna, Video by Aman Azhar

Killings of Environmental Advocates Around the World Hit a Record High in 2020

By Georgina Gustin

Indigenous Tribes Facing Displacement in Alaska and Louisiana Say the U.S. Is Ignoring Climate Threats

By Dalia Faheid

Line 3 Drew Thousands of Protesters to Minnesota This Summer. Last Week, Enbridge Declared the Pipeline Almost Finished

By Kristoffer Tigue

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