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Amazon indigenous activist wins ‘Green Nobel’ prize
Kenyan farmers, young guides enlisted to protect city forests
Canadian indigenous deal with KXL pipeline aims to unlock wealth
In Depth
Flight to the future:One land's quest to defuse climate 'timebomb'
Modi refuses to back down on India farm reforms
China eyes 60 GW of hydropower on Tibet's Brahmaputra river
Indian farmers defiant against reform as Modi tries to calm anger
Pope's new cardinal in Mexico known for indigenous outreach
Family farmers struggle to keep up with fast-warming world
Zanzibar uses digital documents to prove property ownership
Worsening land inequality widens gender, climate change gaps
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Armenians uprooted by Nagorno-Karabakh war face a bleak winter
COVID-19 cases soar in Brazil's largest indigenous reservation
Evacuated amid COVID, Canadian First Nation awaits clean water
insight
COVID-19 swells UK's subprime ranks
U.S. cities urged to focus tree planting in areas most at risk
After Grenfell, UK social housing landlords under tougher scrutiny
Australian investor sees heritage risk across mining industry
Coronavirus sees Jamaican women worst hit by crop, livestock theft
Landless Thais get homes in mangrove forest
Storm Eta damage pushes Central American farmers into hunger
Ethiopian police seeking lists of ethnic Tigrayans - U.N. report
UN says more than 14,500 have fled Ethiopia to Sudan
Nowhere to go: Displaced Iraqis desperate as camps close
Australia Post backs calls to use Aboriginal place names
Rural racism: BAME groups miss out as Brits escape to the country
Indigenous leaders count on Biden to help save Amazon forest
Thousands of refugees flee to Sudan from Ethiopia conflict
Ethiopian journalists arrested as Tigray conflict worsens
Australia urged to change anthem to honour Aboriginal people
How Pfizer vaccine could be cold comfort for some Asian nations
As Cape Town races to save water, 'Day Zero' draws closer
Guatemala Mayan villagers tell of escape from deadly landslide
Escalating conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray risks mass displacement
Taiwan's Indigenous Tao way of life under threat on Orchid Island
As Amazon blazes surge, firefighting proves a challenge
Scarce pastures put Kashmir nomads' migration in peril
Pandemic pushes Japanese to quit city life
Murder of South African anti-coal mine activist condemned
Pakistani fishermen fear island development
British volunteers find 50,000 miles of missing historic footpaths
Elderly indigenous people struggle for Thai citizenship
Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest jump in October
Family of murdered Amazon land defender say nothing has changed
Much of West Africa faces Sahara-level heat within a century
Bolivia's forest people burned by 'perfect recipe' for wildfires
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As the U.S presidential election nears, lack of mail delivery on reservations are critical barriers to voting for Native Americans
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Why the United States needs to change how it manages public land

Neither political party has an adequate vision for the public lands
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It is time for a Native American to run the Interior Department

Indian tribes are the first Americans to feel the effects of climate change yet we are rarely represented in government

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Amazon losses help drive growing wildfires elsewhere in Brazil
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