July 15 (UPI) --An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait Islands are not owed environmental protections from the nation's government. Justice Michael ...

Indigenous peoples rely on natural indicators to assess the impacts of the climate crisis. The signs show in the forests, the ...

Forget Indigenous rights, climate change and environmental protection. That’s the stark message from the latest edition of the U.S. Department of State’s reports on human rights practices across the ...

While the steamy rainforests of Brazil are far from Alaska’s arctic, the challenges of climate change discussed at the U.N.

The way we respond to climate change also affects human rights. For example: Switching to clean energy creates jobs and improves health, but workers in coal and gas need support to transition.

The nation's first Native American Cabinet member faces a slate of challenges. A relentless drought and wildfire season in America's West and a tense standoff over federal leases for oil and gas ...

Having grown up in Chad, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim has taken on the cause of negotiating for her community at the international level. By Shivani Vora This article is part of a Women and Leadership ...

On a May morning in 2023, more than 200 Indigenous, local community, and Afro-descendant women from 20 countries on four continents bustled into a hotel meeting space in Brazzaville, the capital of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From the Arctic to the Amazon, the traditional food gathering techniques of indigenous communities are under threat from accelerating climate ...

Paul Kabai (L) and Pabai Pabai, seen here after the Federal Court of Australia decision in Cairns, Australia on Tuesday. EPA/BRIAN CASSEY AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT July 15 (UPI) --An Australian ...