Tag: Indigenous communities

  • How To Live On Earth Is the New Environmental Documentary We All Need to Watch

    How To Live On Earth Is the New Environmental Documentary We All Need to Watch

    In the largest pear-growing forest on the planet, somewhere in China, workers move through the trees carrying feather dusters. They are not cleaning anything. They are pollinating the blossoms by hand, dusting pollen across flower after flower, performing a task so vast and so painstaking that it almost defies belief. It is the kind of…

  • Alaska Villages Destroyed By Typhoon Say FEMA Wants Them Rebuilt Where Homes Were Swept Away

    Alaska Villages Destroyed By Typhoon Say FEMA Wants Them Rebuilt Where Homes Were Swept Away

    The floodwaters ripped homes straight off their foundations and carried some of them downriver with people still trapped inside. In western Alaska, entire Indigenous villages along the Bering Sea were left shattered after the remnants of Typhoon Halong slammed into the coast last October, leaving behind toxic floodwater, destroyed homes, and families scattered hundreds of…

  • The Three Nations Working Together to Protect the Mayan Jungle

    The Three Nations Working Together to Protect the Mayan Jungle

    Stretching across southern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and western Belize, the Great Mayan Jungle, also known as the Selva Maya, is one of the last great tropical rainforests of the Americas. This vast expanse of emerald canopy shelters ancient Mayan ruins, rare wildlife, and some of the planet’s most vital carbon-storing trees. Now, in an unprecedented…