Indigenous Peoples

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.

Local communities strive to protect local forests and headwaters that include some of the Amazon River’s most important water sources.

Before the next global meeting on plastics, we need more transparency and disclosure around the corporate stakeholders wielding influence there.

The Canadian photographer travels to remote areas to explore identity and our relationship with nature.

Persistent drought has caused havoc for the Indigenous peoples who live on floating islands and depend on rains that have stopped falling.

To bring more water to the landscape — and fight the growing risk of catastrophic wildfires — a Tribe in California helps to reshape fire management policy.