The 17,000-member United Houma Nation tribe has withstood land grabs, civil rights abuses, devastating hurricanes and marsh degradation in the centuries that its people have trolle...
Imagine you live on an island, a tropical paradise. Turquoise waters rise and fall at the shore’s edge. The ocean’s rhythmic sounds lull you into a sense of security...
Researchers at West Virginia University (WVU) have received more than $600,000 to study watersheds in southern coalfields and truly gauge the effect on these ecosystems of mountain...
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has earned kudos from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) for requiring clients to document that they have received clearance from indigenous communi...
The Southern Ute Indian tribe has contributed almost one-third of Solix Biofuels’ $20 million in capital for a project to make fuel from algae on its reservation, reports the New Y...
In late August, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved piping in oil from Canada’s Alberta oil sands – dubbed “the most destructive project on Earth” by the Environmental Defe...
Global warming and a rush to exploit the natural resources of the Arctic are killing off Caribou herds, which is bad news for them, for the indigenous peoples who share their lands...