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A new report that shows how important Indigenous territories are to preventing the worst impacts of the climate crisis, especially in four countries that store about 28 percent of the carbon currently sequestered in Indigenous lands — Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

Smoke seasons are not new, although climate change has exacerbated their scale and intensity. In planning for a smoky future, history shows how our responses to fire and smoke are cultural.

Posted: May 02, 2021 8:00 AM PT | Last Updated: May 2 Lexi Fisher, a social worker, works at Kilala Lelum Health Centre in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside. (Ben Nelms/CBC) Indigenous advocates and front-line workers are pushing to include more traditional ways of healing — conversing with elders, smudging, sweat lodges and drum circles — into substance abuse treatment.   According to the First Nations Health Authority, Indigenous people are five times more likely to experience an overdose ...

"So you sort of, kind of (thought) are you being serious, are you joking?" Born in the English Midlands to Jamaican parents, before living half her life in Australia, the fundraiser, author, board member and even DJ walked a long path to the palace. That meeting, and many more like it from 2008 to 2017, came through Dr Myers-Daviss role with the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League, which she likes to think of as the princes "favourite" of the hundreds of charities he supported. Her lasting im...

Helping Papuans protect Indonesia’s last frontier: Q&A with Bustar Maitar Bustar Maitar’s storied career in environmental activism began in the Indonesian region of Papua, the land of his birth and today the coveted target of extractives and industrial agriculture companies. In his time at Greenpeace International, Maitar led a forest conservation campaign that pressured major corporations like Nestlé and Unilever to commit to zero deforestation in their supply chains. Maitar’s new ventu...