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A sign marks a boundary of the Tohono O'odham Reservation.

Tribes turn to the U.N. as major wind project plans to cut through their lands in the U.S.

Taylar Dawn Stagner 24 Apr 2024

Activists file last-gasp suit as Indonesia fails again to pass Indigenous bill

Richaldo Hariandja 23 Apr 2024
A man from the Vedda community in Sri Lanka.

In largest ever study, Indigenous and local communities report the impacts of climate change

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Apr 2024
Bendri lost his house due to flash floods accompanied by wood and large stones in Batu Balah Village.

Sumatra villages count cost of deadly river tsunami swelled by illegal logging

Jaka Hendra Baittri, Vinolia Ahmad 17 Apr 2024
People watch a forest fire in Kratié Province, Cambodia.

Research links deforestation in Cambodia to stunting in kids, anemia in women

Anton L. Delgado 11 Apr 2024
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024
Drought in Bangladesh.

We need rapid response support for Indigenous peoples in the face of growing extreme weather events (commentary)

Joe Eisen 27 Mar 2024
Relief effort during the Ene River floods, March 2024.

‘Another catastrophe’: Flooding destroys Indigenous agroforestry projects in Peru’s Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 26 Mar 2024

Brazilian youngsters discuss how they are tackling the climate emergency

Beatriz Jucá and Leandro Barbosa 15 Mar 2024
Agroforestry practices in action in Zambia.

Global conference to accelerate nature-based solutions: Q&A with Self Help Africa’s Patricia Wall

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Mar 2024
Many residents of Gelam Island moved to the neighboring Cempedak Island for education and health facilities.

Phantom deeds see Borneo islanders lose their land to quartz miners

Aseanty Pahlevi 7 Mar 2024
Hippos in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

In climate-related flooding, a Ugandan river turns poisonous

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2024
The people of Tebing Tinggi Okura, Riau, protest against the clarity of 20% plasma plantations for them.

Sumatra community faces up to ‘plasma’ disappointment after palm oil policy shift

Suryadi 4 Mar 2024
Children crossing the Nyamwamba.

Climate change brings a river’s wrath down on western Uganda

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Feb 2024
A rescue team rescuing pets after the aftermath of the landslide.

Landslide in Philippines mining town kills nearly 100, prompts calls for action

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 21 Feb 2024

Climate change, extreme weather & conflict exacerbate global food crisis

Abdulkareem Mojeed, Priscilla Misiekaba-Kia, Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 19 Feb 2024
A farmer cuts cacao pods from the tree in Colombia.

New agrarian courts in Colombia raise hopes for end to land conflicts

Aimee Gabay 7 Feb 2024
Christine Maïsali, a victim of a work accident on SOSUCAM's plantations, with her husband, Farwe Kossombele.

Labor abuse and work accidents on plantations of Cameroon’s largest sugar producer

Yannick Kenné 31 Jan 2024
India’s new forest rules spark dismay — and hope: Q&A with activist Soumitra Ghosh

India’s new forest rules spark dismay — and hope: Q&A with activist Soumitra Ghosh

Niladry Sarkar 17 Jan 2024
Indigenous Borana women farmers and their children in Ethiopia.

‘Indigenous’ and ‘local’ shouldn’t be conflated: Q&A with Indigenous leader Sara Olsvig

Alec Luhn 4 Jan 2024
Peter Nagul sit on the rubble that used to be his house.

Violent evictions are latest ordeal for Kenya’s Ogiek seeking land rights

Anthony Langat 20 Dec 2023
An excavator at a coal mine.

COP28 ‘breakthrough’ elevates litigation as vital route to climate action

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2023

African leaders & activists will bring new demands, hopes to COP28

Abdulkareem Mojeed 29 Nov 2023
A house sparrow (Passer domesticus) perched on a black metal fence in the city. Photo by Ray Hennessy on Unsplash.

Discriminatory U.S. housing policies still affect bird sightings 90 years later

Chiara Villanueva 27 Nov 2023
Women in Kodalpalli village in Odisha's Nayagarh district take the lead in forest management and patrols.

Can India’s Forest Rights Act deliver? Odisha state is trying to find out

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Nov 2023
People walking through a forest.

Control of Africa’s forests must not be sold to carbon offset companies (commentary)

Alexandra Benjamin 17 Nov 2023
Posito Daom, a Pala'wan, pauses on his descent to the lowlands to sell chayote cultivated using the no-till method, a sustainable practice that avoids turning over and disturbing the soil, according to studies.

Indigenous farmers’ hard work protects a Philippine hotspot, but goes overlooked

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 16 Nov 2023
An anonymous pipeline-affected person in Tanzania, January 2022.

Disturbing graves is latest violation attributed to East African oil pipeline

Justin Catanoso 14 Nov 2023
Maman Ajo makes a living selling boats.

Java farmers displaced by dam remain treading water after decades

Donny Iqbal 8 Nov 2023
Muslim communities represent a large percentage of the global population and are greatly impacted by climate change, and therefore deserve seats at important climate change negotiations like COP28. Image courtesy of Memona Hossain.

Muslim community must have a seat for global climate change discourse (commentary)

Memona Hossain 3 Nov 2023
mine peru

Poisoned for decades by a Peruvian mine, communities say they feel forgotten

Dan Collyns 2 Nov 2023
Juliette Naipanoi Lekiale, of the Samburu community of Kenya. Image courtesy of Rights and Resources Initiative.

Namibia hosted Africa’s 1st community-led conservation congress. Where will it lead?

Victoria Schneider 1 Nov 2023

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