Climate Indigenous Affairs
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![International flags fly on poles in front of United Nations building.]()
IPLC: The acronym that is keeping Indigenous advocates up at night
Native leaders say equating "Indigenous peoples" and "local communities" threatens hard-won treaty rights.
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The massive copper mine that could test the limits of religious freedom
To fight climate change, the world needs copper. The third largest deposit on the planet is in Arizona, a site the San Carlos Apache say is “like Mount Sinai to us.”
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![A collage in the shape of a large eye with document text in the sclera and a photo of a pipeline in the iris/pupil]()
![A collage in the shape of a large eye with document text in the sclera and a photo of a pipeline in the iris/pupil]()
FBI sent several informants to Standing Rock protests, court documents show
Until now, only one other federal informant was known to be in the camps.
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![Greenery and trees frame a river leading to a mountain.]()
![Greenery and trees frame a river leading to a mountain.]()
New report slams carbon offset project in Cambodia for violating Indigenous rights
Human Rights Watch alleges Indigenous peoples were thrown off their land in name of conservation.
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![Glen Canyon Dam holds back water to create the Lake Powell reservoir. The dam divides the river's Upper Basin from its Lower Basin.]()
![Glen Canyon Dam holds back water to create the Lake Powell reservoir. The dam divides the river's Upper Basin from its Lower Basin.]()
States and tribes scramble to reach Colorado River deals before election
Landmark agreements would cut big states’ water usage for decades and deliver water to the Navajo Nation.
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![A collage with photos of land (rivers, canyons), a college graduate in cap and gown, and text. The land photos are broken into pieces and moved slightly apart.]()
![A collage with photos of land (rivers, canyons), a college graduate in cap and gown, and text. The land photos are broken into pieces and moved slightly apart.]()
At least 10 states quietly own lands within Indian reservations — and profit from them
Tribal climate action plans are being stymied by state-owned land within reservation borders.
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![German-born American military officer Herbert E Wolff and military personnel of the 84th Engineers Battalion, 45th Support Group, USASCH, each wearing protective yellow coveralls as they watch as hardened concrete mixed with contaminated soil and attapulgite additive being dumped from a 20-ton truck into the crater formed by a nuclear bomb, on the northern tip of Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 26th July 1978. Runit Island is a dumping ground for radioactive waste left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between '46 and '58. (Photo by Department of Defense/US Army/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)]()
![German-born American military officer Herbert E Wolff and military personnel of the 84th Engineers Battalion, 45th Support Group, USASCH, each wearing protective yellow coveralls as they watch as hardened concrete mixed with contaminated soil and attapulgite additive being dumped from a 20-ton truck into the crater formed by a nuclear bomb, on the northern tip of Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 26th July 1978. Runit Island is a dumping ground for radioactive waste left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between '46 and '58. (Photo by Department of Defense/US Army/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)]()
Decades after the US buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it
A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from U.S. nuclear projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.
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![An aerial view of the University of Arizona in Tucson from Getty Images.]()
![An aerial view of the University of Arizona in Tucson from Getty Images.]()
Cash-strapped University of Arizona says climate action can wait
Activists have spent years pushing the university to divest from fossil fuels. With a $177 million deficit, that may not happen.
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![Driftwood logs sit along the shoreline of Upper Klamath Lake]()
As the Klamath River dries, tribal nations and farmers come to rare agreement
“What’s at stake is our very livelihood, our culture, our identities, our way of life."
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How the US government began its decade-long campaign against the anti-pipeline movement
Newly released documents show the FBI monitoring anti-Keystone protesters much earlier than previously known. Young Native activists were among its first targets.
