Lyric Aquino

Indigenous Affairs Fellow at Grist

Indigenous people react as they watch a broadcast of the 'Temporal Framework' trial on a screen installed in front of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in Brasilia, Brazil on September 21, 2023. (Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Brazil’s Supreme Court upholds Indigenous rights to reclaim land

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Alessandra Sampaio (C), widow of British journalist Dom Phillips, participates in a demonstration in tribute to Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, murdered while on a reporting mission in the Amazon rainforest one year ago, at the Copacabana neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 5, 2023. (MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images)

In 2022, a land defender was killed every two days

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A pigeon flies over a Exxon mobil gas station (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

Exxon says global climate goals are destined to fail

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BITTER SPRINGS, ARIZONA - JANUARY 1: A rainbow is seen above homes in the Navajo Nation, on January 1, 2023 in Bitter Springs, Arizona. Reports say that nearly 40% of Navajo Nation is living without running water. Despite living near the Colorado River the Navajo Nation was left out of talks almost a hundred years ago when rule makers were drawing up the Colorado River Compact.(Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Supreme Court leaves Navajo Nation high and dry

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Oak Flats in Superior, Arizona. (Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images)

Biden administration pauses copper mining project on Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site

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An indigenous leader from Brazil takes part in a protest outside REPSOL Headquarters on December 08, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Indigenous leaders and activists are protesting in Madrid against oil contamination and the fossil fuel industry in Brazil because of the damage it provokes to the poorest communities, sea life, food supplies and the climate. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

2022 was a particularly deadly year for land and environmental activists

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Oak Flats in Superior, Arizona. (Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images)

It’s been a place of worship for centuries. Now a copper mine threatens its future

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Climate activists protest Chase Bank's continued funding of the fossil fuel industry by setting up a tripod-blockade in midtown Manhattan. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Banks with ‘net-zero’ pledges are among the top funders of fossil fuels

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A dried out bank of a nearly water empty dam is pictured on a farm in Piket Bo-berg, Piketberg, north of Cape Town, on March 7, 2018 as a result of a three-year-long drought. (WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)

Indigenous leaders demand a seat at international water negotiations

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