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Severe drought in Peruvian Amazon isolated more than 130 Indigenous communities

Western Kenya’s most important water-capturing forest is disappearing, satellites show

As climate change upends Ethiopia’s pastoral wisdom, adaptations can help

Organizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests

In Kenya, a water fund brings to light Indigenous cultural identity issues

A Kenya water fund partners with farmers to protect vital resources

In Kenya, a river restoration initiative pays for itself, and then some

Community-led wetland restoration may hold key to Harare’s water crisis

In Chile, a copper mining project tainted by environmental damage sues 32 locals

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

Study to benchmark water quality finds key Amazon tributary in good shape

Activists blame policy failures over climate change for Nepal Terai’s water crisis

All conservation is local: Interview with Angolan conservationist Kerllen Costa

Tracing Africa’s ‘fading biological fingerprints’ in Angola’s threatened forests

A forest restoration project brings birdsong back to Angola’s highest mountain

Indigenous communities along Argentina’s Río Chubut mobilize to conserve waterway

Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive

Rainwater reserves a tenuous lifeline for Sumatran community amid punishing dry season

Beneath the surface, a toxic tide threatens Bangladesh’s water lifeline

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Locals at the mouth of the Amazon River get a salty taste of climate change

Andes community-led conservation curbs more páramo loss than state-protected area: Study

In Mexico, Xalapa’s chronic water scarcity reflects a deepening national crisis

With half its surface water area lost, an Amazonian state runs dry

Quilombola communities take iron mine to U.K. court, alleging decade of damages

Salty wells and lost land: Climate and erosion take their toll in Sulawesi

Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

More action needed to protect freshwater ecosystems, report says

Zika, dengue transmission expected to rise with climate change

The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay

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