Deep in the Ecuador Amazon, a Canadian-owned mining project threatens the way of life of local Indigenous communities.

The two candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency in a second-round run-off never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are ...

President Trump's push to recognize the Lumbee Tribe overshadowed by other executive actions.But that doesn't mean it's not a ...

So far only a dozen of the 195 nations that signed the 2015 Paris climate agreement have filed their national plans for cutting emissions by 2035. Those nations account for only 1 ...

On Dec. 4, the two-year struggle by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protect their sacred land and water ended – at least for now – when the Obama administration denied the easement ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s latest lawsuit over the Dakota Access Pipeline should be tossed, arguing the tribe can’t sue the agency over a permit that ...

Mount Taranaki in New Zealand became a legal person, signaling a significant change in the nation's policy towards indigenous rights and the environment.

Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Healthy Homes Grant Program seeks improved housing conditions, health outcomes for low-income residents to prevent displacement OHA has awarded $23 million to repair ...

Following concerns that federal officials may be detaining Native American citizens in sweeping immigration actions, Colorado River Indian Tribes Chairwoman Amelia Flores is assuring members that ...

The Navajo Nation and tribes elsewhere in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah have a long, sordid history of disease, death and contamination linked to mining that took place during World War II and the Cold ...

A stretch of land in southern Oregon with historical significance, including the likely location of a treaty signing and near the site of a massacre, is returning to the Confederated Tribes of ...