Around 200 ethnic Karen people fled fighting in Myanmar ... The junta and numerous opposition groups declared a ceasefire to ease relief efforts after a 7.7-magnitude quake hit central Myanmar ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

Forest Service to republish environmental report within 60 days Publication needed to approve land swap for Resolution project Native groups oppose ... tensions between Indigenous groups vocal ...

and the government says the proposed dam height increase — from 60 to 64 metres — meets or exceeds all requirements. Robin Junger, a lawyer with McMillan LLP who specializes in Indigenous and ...

Indonesia is pressing ahead with construction of a new network of dams in Borneo to power a major “green” industrial estate that will relocate Indigenous communities ... the beginning of the Mentarang ...

The nation says not only was the bigger dam authorized by the provincial government ... the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. “That decision shows a deep disregard ...

IIPWG was formed in 2006 as the Indigenous Peoples Task Force and later the Indigenous Peoples Working Group of the US SIF Foundation, the supporting organization for US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward VANCOUVER — A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward VANCOUVER — A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a ...