Indigenous Peoples

A pumped hydro facility is just one of many proposed clean energy projects that threaten cultural property of the Yakama Nation.

Can science and tradition finally help heal the region’s peoples and bring balance to its biodiversity-rich waters and mangrove forests?

As one of the world’s most endangered birds returns to its ancestral skies, partners work to eliminate a persistent threat on the ground.

Indigenous-led prescribed fire is helping to restore depleted lands and long-suppressed cultural practices.

In north Brazil, the combined effects of a hydroelectric dam and earth-shifting livestock have altered the landscape — and upended peoples’ lives.

Looking back at environmental loss — and more than a few successes — helps us look ahead to healing the planet.

A new book about efforts to save endangered snails in Hawai‘i provides valuable insight into threats to global biodiversity.

Conservation groups rush to preserve camps across the United States as some properties sell to the highest bidder. Will they succeed?

Don’t miss these environmental news stories about innovative laws, rising renewables and a “climate king.”

“We’re training a workforce of solar warriors,” says the cofounder of Indigenized Energy Initiative.