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The Keystone XL pipeline is dead. Now what?
The Keystone XL may never move any oil, but its impact will still linger in the form of the pipes, worker camps, and other assets stranded along its 1,200-mile path.
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An Indigenous practice may be key to preventing wildfires
For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.
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To save way of life, Native defenders push to protect the Arctic refuge
In an e360 interview, Gwich'in elder Sarah James talks about the Trump administration's move to open these lands to development and why the fate of the refuge and of her people are intertwined.
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First coronavirus deaths reported in Indigenous communities in the Amazon
“COVID-19 has fertile terrain to spread rapidly among the populations that live in Amazonia,” says president of prominent Brazilian rights group.
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Logging is ripping apart the Solomon Islands. One man is fighting back
The Solomon Islands is being stripped bare by foreign logging companies, in some cases acting illegally. A community takes action to preserve its future.
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Indigenous protectors of these sacred peaks have kept others out—till now
The Arhuaco invite National Geographic to the upper reaches of their Colombian homeland to reveal threats we all face—and remind us of our roots in nature.
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Defenders of threatened tribes warn of mounting hostility in the Amazon
Rights advocates anticipate calamity as Brazil moves to weaken the agency that has long worked to protect indigenous communities and their homelands.
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