Climate Indigenous Affairs
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![A woman dressed in a Ecuador mask and ecuador flag stands in front of a protest banner]()
![A woman dressed in a Ecuador mask and ecuador flag stands in front of a protest banner]()
Environmental defenders remain among world’s most targeted activists
A new report found that environmental defenders are increasingly encountering overlapping networks of government officials, corporations, criminal groups, and private security forces.
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Indigenous cultural practices are a climate solution, report finds
Indigenous lands are recognized as crucial for climate mitigation and resilience. New research shows their health is a direct result of the people who inhabit and steward them.
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![man holding a sign that reads President Trump make commercial fishing great again]()
Trump wants to unleash ‘America First’ fishing. What’s he really doing?
As the administration dismantles guardrails for industrial fishing, it's also threatening critical marine ecosystems that are sacred to Indigenous Pacific peoples.
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The US military is spending big on critical minerals
Indigenous peoples raise the alarm as Pentagon spending on lithium, graphite, and other minerals skyrockets.
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![collage of Daria Egereva on dark gray background with red lines]()
![collage of Daria Egereva on dark gray background with red lines]()
UN officials urge Russia to free Indigenous climate advocate
Daria Egereva and her colleague have been jailed for six months. A growing chorus of voices wants them released at a court hearing Thursday.
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![Collage of Brooke Rollins and an aerial view of a dam]()
![Collage of Brooke Rollins and an aerial view of a dam]()
Why is this Trump official dead set on saving a failing California dam?
Brooke Rollins’s latest culture war crusade threatens a delicate compromise between Potter Valley farmers and nearby tribes.
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Pacific Islanders slowly recover from the strongest storm of the year
More than a month after Sinlaku hit the Western Pacific, the death toll stands at 17 and many families remain without stable housing or electricity.
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In a rare show of global unity, countries adopt landmark climate ruling
Despite U.S. opposition, an overwhelming majority of nations agreed that failing to address climate change could be grounds to seek reparations.
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Māori climate risk worsened by colonization, report finds
A sweeping national climate assessment argues that exclusion from decision-making has amplified Indigenous vulnerability to floods, storms, and erosion.
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The Brazilian government keeps giving out mining licenses in the Amazon – in spite of evidence of gold ‘laundering’
An InfoAmazonia investigation found patterns of illegal gold laundering in the Tapajós River basin in Pará state, where Indigenous communities like the Munduruku people face mercury contamination from mining activity.
