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Gisele Martin, Hayden Seitcher, and Hughie Watts from Tseshaht nation — blessing the garden, carrying out a small ceremony to honor the land and ocean to ensure the garden's success and to respect their traditions.

On Canada’s West Coast, clam gardening builds resilience among Indigenous youth

Robyn Huang 6 Aug 2024

Saving Lake Victoria from plastic: Interview with Kenya’s teenage Muchilwa siblings

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 31 Jul 2024
Hymenaea courbaril

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jul 2024
Shelly Boyd, a Sinixt woman, co-leads the annual salmon ceremony at Kettle Falls and keeps tradition alive by singing songs that have been sung there for millennia.

A tribe once declared ‘extinct’ helps reintroduce salmon to the Columbia River

Anna Dulisse 30 Jul 2024
Ailton Krenak

It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous author Ailton Krenak

Jaqueline Sordi 30 Jul 2024
Students at the Gora Dhangmari Forest Primary School display clay sculptures they made for a final project in art class.

Dhaka international symposium gathers at the intersection of art & climate crisis

McKenna Johnson 29 Jul 2024
From left: Florinda Zurdo, Silvia Salina and Patricia Mendoza stand in a plot of land near ASASTRAN’s site in Lajero where traditional medicine is cultivated.

Indigenous midwives in Panama strive to preserve traditional medicine for maternal health

Adam D. Williams 25 Jul 2024
Two school boys planting a tree.

Protecting Nigeria one child & one tree at a time: Interview with Doyinsola Ogunye

Tarinipre Francis 24 Jul 2024
A Maasai man armed with a spear stands on a hilltop close to the highest point of the Loita hills.

Photos: For Kenya’s Maasai, will a new faith undo age-old conservation traditions?

Stuart Butler 23 Jul 2024
Goondoi rangers performing a traditional dance at Etty Bay Beach.

Shaping the next generation of Indigenous rangers: Interview with Manni Edwards

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Jul 2024
Service in Östersund.

How Europe’s only Indigenous group is inspiring a greener Christianity

John Last 17 Jul 2024
Morchella esculenta mushrooms, locally called gucchi.

Traditional foods have the potential to help Kashmir communities adapt to climate change: study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 16 Jul 2024
Lupine flowers in sunshine in Milford Sound, New Zealand. Image by Aneta Hartmannová via Unsplash.

Is ‘legal personhood’ a tool or a distraction for Māori relationships with nature?

Monica Evans 8 Jul 2024
Musicians at a 2019 ceremony marking a three-month rāhui closure of the bonefish fishery in Anaa Atoll.

French Polynesians revive traditional rāhui to protect fish — and livelihoods

Amélie David 4 Jul 2024
Aba Gebreselassie stands near a big tree in the forest around Ura Kidane Mihret Monastery in the Zege peninsula, Ethiopia.

Guardians of the sacred: Ethiopian Orthodox monks on spiritual forest conservation

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2024

New study reaffirms Indigenous lands key to mitigating climate change in Brazil

Sarah Sax 25 Jun 2024
Handils are the boundaries of fields as well as paths for transportation and waters to fish in.

Borneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management

Titik Kartitiani 25 Jun 2024
Water scarcity has been a problem for Xochimilco residents for a long time, even before the recent drought, due to the overexploitation of its aquifers that supply neighboring urban areas and megaprojects.

Photos: Exploring Mexico City’s Aztec-era farms, the chinampas

Aimee Gabay 19 Jun 2024
Stilt mangrove roots in West Bengal's Sundarbans.

Caught in the net: Unchecked shrimp farming transforms India’s Sundarbans

Niladry Sarkar 19 Jun 2024
Greater one-horned rhinos in Chitwan, Nepal.

Nepal’s top engineering, forestry colleges to align on development and conservation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Jun 2024
He‘eia fishpond.

Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

Keona Blanks 5 Jun 2024

Indigenous Alaskans drive research in a melting arctic

Gabe Allen 4 Jun 2024

A Brazilian city restores its mangroves to protect against climate change

Letícia Klein 3 Jun 2024

Campesinos bring life back to a deforestation hotspot in the Colombian Amazon

Astrid Arellano 30 May 2024
A Dayak Pitap woman.

On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 15 May 2024

African health experts warn of climate change & rising vector-borne diseases

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 13 May 2024

Secrets from the rainforest’s past uncovered in Amazonian backyards

Carolina Pinheiro 8 May 2024

‘Our rights are on trial in Brazil’: Interview with Indigenous movement pioneer Brasílio Priprá

Amanda Magnani 6 May 2024

Scientists collaborate to conserve the endangered Guiana Dolphins

Sarah Brown 30 Apr 2024
A fisher casts a net in Laguna, Brazil.

Traditional fishers’ expertise is valuable for scientific research, study says

Pedro Serra, Priscila Steffen 18 Apr 2024
Trainee Ossam Bassam fishing at sea for the first time.

Lebanese youths take up rods and reels to learn sustainable fishing

Amélie David 27 Mar 2024
The olive harvest festival at the luxury Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort in 2023 highlights the growing interest in local foods and agri-tourism opportunities.

Oman’s mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future

Ruth Kamnitzer 18 Mar 2024

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