Indigenous Peoples

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.

An upcoming project would change the flow of the Mississippi River and its sediment to make up for land the coast is losing due to climate change and sea-level rise.

Protecting women’s rights and the environment go hand-in-hand in these new books, which also celebrate female leaders and scientists.

I became a plaintiff in a lawsuit for the Clear Lake hitch — a fish I’ve never seen. As the species quickly disappears, how much longer will it swim the waters of California?