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In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science

In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador, Shuar people are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant.

Story and photos by Katie Surma

 Paraecologists Olger Kitiar (left) and Jhostin Antún eagerly check a camera trap tucked into the forest on Maikiuants territory on Nov. 29, 2025.
Environmental activists reoccupy the Atlanta Forest as it was scheduled to be developed into a police training center on March 4, 2023. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Courts’ Fight Over ‘Cop City’ Protests Raises Questions About Terrorism Laws and Environmental Activism 

By Jade Yeban
Waorani Indigenous leaders protest oil exploitation in Yasuni National Park in front of Quito’s Constitutional Court on Aug. 20, 2025. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts

By Katie Surma
Climate activists and members of Extinction Rebellion protest in front of Citibank’s New York City office on Sept. 5, 2024. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists?

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Construction of an Amazon Web Services data center in Salem Township, Pa., on Oct. 10, 2025. Credit: Jason Ardan/Citizens’ Voice via Getty Images

Grassroots Resistance to Data Centers Rises in Pennsylvania

By Jon Hurdle
A view of chemical plants and factories in the Louisiana area known as Cancer Alley. Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images

The State of Environmental Justice Under Trump 2.0

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth
Local teenagers play soccer in front of the Sitakunda ship graveyard. Credit: Spencer Call/NGO Shipbreaking Platform.

‘Toxic Colonialism’ on the Bay of Bengal

By Johnny Sturgeon
At the Tucson Convention Center in August 2025, demonstrators opposed "Project Blue," a massive data center installation proposed by Amazon Web Services. Data centers have also now become a flashpoint in Phoenix, the third largest data center market in the country. Across the state, ratepayers are linking data center development to higher electric bills. Credit: Wild Horizons/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In Arizona, Utilities and State Regulators Double Down on Fossil Fuels and Higher Costs Despite Residents’ Opposition

By Wyatt Myskow

‘Unbelievably Vulnerable’: The Climate Challenges Facing Mamdani’s New York City

By Lauren Dalban
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (C) and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought (L), the architects of the Trump administration's climate and environmental justice grant terminations, at a 911 ceremony in Arlington, Virginia. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Trump’s Grant Terminations Upheld by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

By Lisa Sorg
Virginia's Democratic Attorney General Jay Jones listens to Gov. Abigail Spanberger's first State of the Commonwealth address on Monday, during which she endorsed the state's rejoining of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Virginia Attorney General Takes Steps to Rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

By Charles Paullin

Stretched Thin, Iowa Agency Issues Few Fines for Manure Pollution

By Nina B. Elkadi, Anika Jane Beamer
An aerial photo shows a large crowd filling a street. Some people hold signs or banners.

Canada’s Mining Firms Are Big Beneficiaries of the Global Order Its Prime Minister Just Criticized

By Katie Surma
Transmission lines along Stan Roberts Sr. Avenue in Northeast El Paso, adjacent to the construction site of the Meta data center. The Franklin Mountains are visible in the background. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas

By Martha Pskowski
For 33 hours, Elissa Phillips and Anahita Sahar Babaei locked themselves into the crow’s nests of a whaling ship, as dozens of supporters gathered to protest whaling in Iceland on Sept. 4, 2023. Credit: Hard to Port

Peaceful Protest Against Whaling in Iceland Lands Two Activists in Court

By Teresa Tomassoni
Boaters in a kayak off the coast of La Jolla Shores, California, in December 2025. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year

By Johnny Sturgeon
President attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15, 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Outcry Builds Over Trump’s Withdrawal From International, Climate Treaties

By Marianne Lavelle
Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff
A serviceberry blooming. Credit: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images

Lessons on Scaling Gift Economies—and How It Can Help the Planet

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

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