Climate Indigenous Affairs
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![A man watches the Menomonee River flow under a bridge on August 10, 2025 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Heavy downpours brought as much as 13 inches of rain to parts of southeast Wisconsin overnight causing floods across the region.]()
![A man watches the Menomonee River flow under a bridge on August 10, 2025 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Heavy downpours brought as much as 13 inches of rain to parts of southeast Wisconsin overnight causing floods across the region.]()
In the wake of destructive floods, Wisconsin youth sue state utility regulator over failure to consider climate change
The case is part of a growing movement to force climate action through the courts, led in part by Indigenous youth.
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![digital collage of Tlingit person wearing traditional clothing with digital patterns on top]()
![digital collage of Tlingit person wearing traditional clothing with digital patterns on top]()
For Indigenous communities, AI brings peril — and promise
The boom in AI and data centers is driving Indigenous communities to defend their land, resources, and cultural knowledge from new forms of extraction.
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![A man in a vest and hard hat stands next to solar panels]()
![A man in a vest and hard hat stands next to solar panels]()
Tribal nations scramble to save clean energy projects as federal support vanishes
As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed renewable energy plans.
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Data centers, drought, and dispossession: The real nightmares in Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
In the new horror-tinged Western, a fictional Pueblo tribe and a fractured town reveal how pandemic politics and AI infrastructure deepen old patterns of violence.
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![Ralph Regenvanu, the climate minister of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, delivers a speech as he attends a demonstration ahead of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.]()
![Ralph Regenvanu, the climate minister of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, delivers a speech as he attends a demonstration ahead of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.]()
How the world’s highest court bolstered the fight for climate reparations
The International Court of Justice ruling that climate harm violates international law is expected to shape current — and future — climate lawsuits as early as this week.
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![Photo of Joseph Lee beside book cover for Nothing More of This Land]()
![Photo of Joseph Lee beside book cover for Nothing More of This Land]()
Rising seas, vanishing voices: An Indigenous story from Martha’s Vineyard
In "Nothing More of This Land," writer Joseph Lee reflects on being Wampanoag in a place shaped by colonization.
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![A sprawling campus of buildings and parking spots]()
A tribe in Florida joins the fight against the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigrant detention center
The Miccosukee, who make their home in the Everglades, said authorities didn't do an environmental review.
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![A young boy in a sweatshirt pulls the cord on a yellow generator hooked up to a house nearby while a young girl looks on from the steps]()
![A young boy in a sweatshirt pulls the cord on a yellow generator hooked up to a house nearby while a young girl looks on from the steps]()
Clean energy projects on tribal lands were booming. Then came Trump’s tax bill.
From Alaska to Arizona, tribes are confronting the possibility of stalled projects, energy outages, and economic disruption.
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Salmon, tribal sovereignty, and energy collide as US abandons Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement
The move threatens treaty rights and salmon recovery as energy demands from AI and crypto surge.
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![Earl Stephen and Dr Amy Parent make their way through the museum during a visit to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, ahead of the return of 11-metre tall memorial pole to what is now British Columbia.]()
![Earl Stephen and Dr Amy Parent make their way through the museum during a visit to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, ahead of the return of 11-metre tall memorial pole to what is now British Columbia.]()
UNESCO appoints Indigenous co-chairs to protect languages and knowledge amid climate crisis
"A single word like 'X̱maay' contains generations of climate knowledge, laws, and cultural practices."
