Tag: Indigenous communities

  • 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…