Mining — whether for fossil fuels or, increasingly, the critical minerals in high demand today — has a long history of ...

Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living away from regular ...

The leaders of 22 Indigenous peoples from five continents held prayers for nature in Chile on Sunday at the end of a 46-day ...

The "Indigenous ... of peoples such as the Khalkha of Mongolia, the Noke Koi of Brazil, and the Kallawaya of Bolivia sang, danced, and prayed to the rhythm of drums, around an altar where they ...

Extracting resources from the Earth always comes with costs. As we race toward a cleaner, greener future, there is a risk of ...

The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, ...

Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the world around them and perceive ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed on Mar 26, 2025.

Climate change and “unsustainable human activities” are driving “unprecedented changes” to mountains and glaciers, a UN report warns.

Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life ...

Kate Farquharson of Second Idol writes an op-ed detailing her experiences growing up in a hometown tainted by colonialism, a ...

K’ómoks First Nation and the Marmot Recovery Foundation have been studying archeological remains that ...