Amazon new Africa headquarters being built on sacred land: Indigenous communities protest
Environmental concerns were disregarded while granting the go-ahead to the project
The science of sugar: why we’re hardwired to love it and what eating too much does to your brain – podcast
‘We have this really deep-seated attraction to sugar that throughout evolutionary history was a really important advantage’
Indigenous people not given their due for conserving forests: UNCCD report
The report says that despite them being the best custodians of forests globally, indigenous people are criminalised and intimidated
Indigenous peoples are crucial for conservation – a quarter of all land is in their hands
Land owned or managed by indigenous people is valuable for conservation. About 65% of indigenous lands have not been intensively …
Promoting tourism in Andaman & Nicobar islands puts ecology at stake
The Ministry of Tourism has reportedly formed a panel to probe the scope of allowing high-value tourism in uninhabited islands
Get out, Bolsonaro: Amazonian activists protest Brazil leader’s meeting with Biden
Both leaders are meeting at the ongoing Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles
Language Census: Many tribal tongues now have fewer takers
There is a huge decline in the number of Monpa and Sema speakers
The era of mega hydropower in Brazilian Amazon appears over
Statements by Brazilian government officials indicate major shift in policy
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2023: The Orang Asli use traditional knowledge to save Malayan tigers
Down To Earth spoke to Phung Chee Chean, Kenyir Project Problem Analyst for Panthera, on the Orang Asli protectors of Malaysia’s last tigers
Niyamgiri: 10 years since India’s first environmental referendum
Niyamgiri case today serves as textbook example of good usage of free, prior informed consent, without which asymmetry of power between …
Ownership Scheme: Why tribals are opposing drone surveys in Jharkhand
Property cards will be issued to villagers after drone surveys are carried out under the Ownership Scheme; but tribals oppose them citing …
Commitments fall short: Amazonian indigenous people slam CoP26
Rather than taking meaningful action, CoP26 has provided powerful political and corporate actors the opportunity to cement false solutions, …
IPCC Report: Joining forces and using indigenous knowledge could avert disaster
In its first major climate report since 2013, the IPCC offers its starkest warning yet: Serious impacts of global warming are now unavoidable
‘Future studies could validate more of Thor Heyerdahl's hypotheses on the Pacific’
Down To Earth speaks to Reidar Solsvik, the curator of the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway about a recent study in ‘Nature’ …
‘The Yanomami need the world’s support to bring pressure on Bolsonaro’
Down To Earth talks to Davi Kopenawa, the ‘Dalai Lama of the Amazon Rainforest’
Wet’suewet’en protests have exposed Canada’s racist underbelly: Ruth Hopkins
Protests against proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline through First Nations land in British Columbia, has crippled rail travel
Now tribal affairs ministry FRA claim settlement number under cloud
Is there something fishy behind giving wrong data for over a decade and then disowning it?
West Papuans: An indigenous people that the world forgot
More than 300 different Papuan tribes of ethnic Melanesian origin on the western half of New Guinea have been brutally suppressed by the …
`The Australian government is amending laws to push Adani's coal mine project'
The Adani Group's US$ 16.5 billion Carmichael coal mine project in Queensland is mired in a controversy as it not only threatens the Great …
How to conserve and increase the world’s marine protected areas
DTE coverage of the Fifth International Marine Protected Area Congress in Canada
Chileans reject proposed constitution promising rights to nature, indigenous people
Only 6 of Chile’s 346 electoral districts voted in favour of the new constitution
It’s official: Australia is set for a hot, dry El Nino. Here’s what that means for the flammable continent
Australia, with its wealth of scientific knowledge and long history of Indigenous land management, should be well placed to manage fire …
‘Wordplay’: Activists criticise Centre for refuting ‘Indigenous Peoples’ concept at UNPFII
Concept of indigenous peoples not applicable in Indian context, the country’s representative had said; there were tribal, not indigenous …
UN 2023 Water Conference: Quarter of the globe lacks access to safe drinking water, says report
International cooperation over how water is used and managed is key and must be boosted to prevent a global water crisis in the coming decades, …
Road to COP15 Montreal: Indigenous groups in South Africa benefit from rooibos tea industry; here is how
Rooibos comes loaded with antioxidants that can boost immunity, reduce risks of heart diseases, protect from viral infection and has anti-…
