Indigenous Peoples

In 2024 our experts explored subjects ranging from autocratic governments to green jobs and new ways to help endangered species.

Our latest group of reviews showcases books that remind us about what we’re saving — and why we do it.

The 450-million-year-old fish is crucial for the Yakama Nation’s health and culture — and the region’s ecology.

Critics argue the authoritarian government has rammed the project through with minimal environmental oversight and in violation of several laws.

This massive rainforest in Aceh, Indonesia is home to tigers, elephants, pangolins, and other threatened species, but it needs one key change to ensure their survival.

Western science structures are embedded in a deeply rooted settler-colonial mindset. Indigenous traditional knowledge has the potential to overturn western systems destined for doom.

Current plans to update our 152-year-old mining laws fail to redress centuries of mineral-extractive colonialism.

As mining operations destroy millennia-old glaciers, Kyrgyzstani director Begaly Nargozu’s new film reflects a disappearing landscape and culture.

The historic act, which recognized a river as a legal entity, deliberately moves away from litigation and places community decision-making at its center.

Helping Indigenous peoples to protect forests and other shared resources will keep us all safer from climate change and other threats.