Climate Indigenous Affairs
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Modern agriculture is collapsing under climate change. Indigenous farming has answers.
A new global review reveals a critical “gap between advocacy and evidence” when it comes to scaling traditional agriculture to fight climate change.
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The Supreme Court takes up a Guam munitions case with high stakes for CHamoru lands
The ruling won't just dictate the fate of a CHamoru beach. It could set a major precedent for Indigenous rights and federal power across U.S. territories.
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The feds pulled $1.5B from tribal clean energy. Tribes are finding another way.
With federal funding gone, tribes are turning to philanthropy, alternative lenders, and their own institutions.
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Indigenous rights, the environment, and international law: What’s at stake at this week’s seabed mining talks
Trump's aggressive push toward deep-sea mining is putting pressure on global negotiators to act fast to shape deep-sea mining rules.
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Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin.
The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.
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The Supreme Court hears a Line 5 oil pipeline case with high stakes for treaty rights
The Straits of Mackinac aren't just ecologically critical — they're the center of the Anishinaabe creation story.
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![Daria Egereva speaks on the recognition of Indigenous Peoples in U.N. member states' climate action plans at COP30 in Brazil on 12 Nov, 2025.]()
![Daria Egereva speaks on the recognition of Indigenous Peoples in U.N. member states' climate action plans at COP30 in Brazil on 12 Nov, 2025.]()
Two months after being arrested, this Indigenous climate leader remains imprisoned in Russia
The U.N. and dozens of Indigenous organizations are demanding Daria Egereva's release, but a Moscow court just extended her detention until at least March.
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Gwich’in fight to protect caribou from Alaska oil development
For "the caribou people," protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge means protecting a way of life.
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Billie Eilish, stolen land, and the climate cost of America’s dispossession
Returning Indigenous land won't destroy civilization -- it could save it.
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The US government says it is falling short on its legal duties to tribal nations
A new government report finds that federal agencies are unprepared to expand shared stewardship with tribes as climate pressures intensify.
