An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait Islands are not owed environmental ...

Federal court says government not obliged to shield residents of Torres Strait Islands from effects of climate change.

The ruling said the government did not owe a duty of care to protect the Torres Strait islands from climate change.

The U.N.'s top court was due to set out a non-binding legal opinion on the extent of legal and financial responsibility ...

The lead plaintiffs, Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai from the islands of Boigu and Saibai, sought orders requiring the ...

That’s why, at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, a group of governments and private funders pledged $1.7 billion in direct support of indigenous peoples.

The International Symposium on Indigenous Communities and Climate Change, held Dec. 6 and 7 at the Princeton Public Library and Princeton University, brought together scholars and journalists to ...

During the USDA project, I also noticed the “experts” talked to the Native American farmers as if they didn’t know how to live in the places they had lived for millennia. For example, one of the ...

National policies to adapt to climate change not only often disregard traditional knowledge, they sometimes even undermine the resilience of indigenous populations, Nakashima said.

One of the major announcements from the United Nations climate summit in Scotland last month, known as COP26, was the Glasgow Declaration on Forests and Land Use, along with the related funding it ...