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Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous federal employees perform a traditional dance before President Joe Biden's visit to the White House Tribal Nations Summit on Dec. 9 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

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

By Noel Lyn Smith

Tennile Lopez (left) shapes blue corn dough while Bertha Etsitty (right) explains the process of blue corn mush on Nov. 25 at the food gathering summit held by Diné College's Land Grant Office. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

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

By Noel Lyn Smith

Herzuza Dongkin’s 3-acre oil palm plantation is harvested by family and community members near Kampung Chenderong Kelubi in the Malaysian state of Perak.

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

Waorani Indigenous people protest in front of Ecuador's Energy Ministry on Aug. 20 to demand that the government respect the results of a referendum requiring an end to oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Katie Surma

A ranger from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo walks through an area of the park devastated by logging on Sept. 30, 2019. Credit: Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images

International Human Rights Commission Condemns ‘Fortress Conservation’

By Katie Surma

A jaguar rescued from animal trafficking is seen at the Santa Cruz Foundation in Cundinamarca, Colombia. Credit: Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Jaguars, Macaws and Tropical Dry Forest Have a Right To Exist, a Colombian Court Is Told

By Katie Surma

Young people from Amazonian communities march during the Pan-Amazon Social Forum in Rurrenabaque, Bolivia on June 12. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

To Save the Amazon, What if We Listened to Those Living Within It?

By Katie Surma

Aymara activists opposed to mining operations in Peru's southeastern Puno region organized on May 31, 2011 for a wave of protests against the Canada-based Bear Creek Mining Corporation plans to open a silver mine in the area. Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

A member of the Indigenous Baduy tribe works at his field on Indonesia's Java island. Anthropologist Gonzalo Oviedo says Indigenous communities in Southeast Asia “tend to recognize many more varieties of plant subspecies.” Credit: Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: To Save The Planet, Traditional Indigenous Knowledge Is Indispensable

By Katie Surma

“We are Ome Yasuni.” Members of the Baihuaeri community of Bameno stand before a ceibo tree in their ancestral territory inside Yasuni National Park. Credit: photo courtesy of the Ome Yasuni association and Javier Awa Baihua.

After Decades Of Oil Drilling, Indigenous Waorani Group Fights New Industry Expansions In Ecuador

By Katie Surma

Dusk falls on the existing Southern Trails natural gas pipeline owned by the Navajo Nation as it passes through empty land west of Shiprock, New Mexico. Locals say someone showed up and put in the yellow markers a few months earlier. Credit: Jerry Redfern.

Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Eduardo Mendúa (center), an Indigenous Ecuadorian activist fighting oil extraction in the Amazon rainforest, was shot to death in his garden on Sunday. Photo Courtsey of Kayla Jenkins

Eduardo Mendúa, Ecuadorian Who Fought Oil Extraction on Indigenous Land, Is Shot to Death

By Katie Surma

José Pepe Manuyama, who is featured in the documentary film "Stepping Softly on the Earth," stands before a graveyard in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo courtesy of Marcos Colón.

Director Marcos Colón Takes an Intimate Look at Three Indigenous Leaders’ Fight to Preserve Their Ancestral Connection to Nature in the Amazon

By Katie Surma

Flares burning off gas at Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site which is the fourth largest oil field in California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Environmental Groups and Native Leaders Say Proposed Venting and Flaring Rule Falls Short

By Autumn Jones

The Cacique Nelson, of the tribe of Guaranis, walks in a deforested area of the old Atlantic Forest on Jan. 26, 2017. Credit: Diego Herculano/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Study Documents a Halt to Deforestation in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest After Indigenous Communities Gain Title to Their Territories

By Katie Surma

A rainbow touches down on the Kokalik River, in northwestern Alaska, winds its way through the National Petroleum Reserve. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Biden Administration Allows Controversial Arctic Oil Project to Proceed

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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