People & Population

"Energy project seen as Northern Gateway alternative rejected by two vital aboriginal alliances."

"Native American activists gathered in Montana's capital on Tuesday to protest the deaths of hundreds of Yellowstone National Park bison killed this year to ease the worries of Montana ranchers about a cattle disease carried by many park buffalo."

"Alfredo Padilla grew up in Texas as a migrant farmworker who followed the harvest with his parents to pick sugar beets in Minnesota each summer. He has not forgotten the aches of labor or how much the weather — too little rain, or too much — affected the family livelihood. Now an insurance lawyer in Carrizo Springs, Tex., he said he was concerned about global warming."

"Achuar tribe demands compensation from Argentine energy company Pluspetrol for pollution on their ancestral land."

"How an unsuspecting farmworker from Kiribati became the brand ambassador of climate change — despite barely knowing what it was."

"Federal agency reports community of slave descendants on nearby island exposed to pollution from site"

"Correct or not, perceptions of tap water as unsafe lead many poor immigrant families to make expensive and unhealthy choices."

"Governments need to plan better for rising migration driven by climate change, experts said on Thursday, citing evidence that extreme weather and natural disasters force far more people from their homes than wars."

"The people who live in the northwest corner of New Mexico consider Darlene Arviso to be a living saint. 'Everybody knows me around here. They'll be waving at me," she says from behind the wheel of the St. Bonaventure Indian Mission water truck. "They call me the water lady.'"