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A $2.30-a-day basic income trial is trying to save the Amazon rainforest
Universal basic income is usually aimed at social or economic benefits. But a $2.30-a-day trial in …
Mia Jankowicz
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My husband and I moved from the US to Canada 13 years ago. We love the free healthcare here and the great friends we made.
My partner and I moved to Canada 13 years ago. The healthcare isn't perfect. Traveling can be more …
Lygia Navarro
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Community-led nutrition initiatives in rural India can boost diet diversity, empower women, says study
The qualitative study by NGO Vitamin Angels India and supported by UNICEF, conducted across several…
PTI
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Climate change is pushing an Indigenous community in Panama off their island home
The island, which is called Carti Sugtupu, is over the size of four football fields and is only 3.2…
James Pasley
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Long before they became a Thanksgiving staple, turkeys were revered by ancient Indigenous communities
Indigenous tribes used turkey feathers for cloaks and headdresses, and the bird was used in ancient…
Yoonji Han
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A Native woman launched a forensics nonprofit to address missing and murdered Indigenous people after her relative went missing and was never found
After growing up on the Blackfeet Reservation, Haley Omeaso is launching Ohkomi Forensics to help f…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Climate change forced an Indigenous community in Louisiana to relocate from their ancestral land: 'I will always have a feeling of being displaced'
For generations, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe called the Isle de Jean Charles home. Due to c…
Isaiah Reynolds
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Warren Buffett wants his children to give away his $130 billion fortune. Does that set up a 'Succession'-style fight?
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett says his $130 billion fortune will go into a trust to be run…
Madeline Berg
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This Ramadan, queer and transgender Muslims made their own community
Queer and trans Muslims reimagined their childhood traditions this Ramadan, Islam's month of fastin…
Shahamat Uddin
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With Roe overturned, Indigenous communities say it was always impossible for them to access abortion services
Due to an amendment that restricts federal funding from going toward abortions, Indigenous people h…
DeArbea Walker
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Canada needs to use the Indigenous practice of prescribed burning for wildfire prevention, experts say
Indigenous communities have used prescribed burning for thousands of years to maintain forest healt…
Katie Hawkinson
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US raises 'concerns' on alleged discrimination of religious minorities in India
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an organisation India has…
ANI
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As Roe faces being overturned, Indigenous communities say it was always impossible for them to access abortion services
Due to an amendment that restricts federal funding from going toward abortions, Indigenous people h…
DeArbea Walker
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New report on Native American boarding schools reveals the US government said it would force Indigenous people to 'resort to agricultural labor or starve'
Between 1819 and 1969, the federal government operated or supported 408 Native American boarding sc…
DeArbea Walker,Paul Squire
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The Canadian government will compensate Indigenous children put into 'discriminatory' foster care with $40 billion settlement
Around 200,000 First Nations children may be compensated, according to the Assembly of First Nation…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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A prominent California law school named after a US official who funded the forced removal and killings of Indigenous people wants to be renamed
The college is known for having propelled several noteworthy names into the spotlight, including Vi…
Yelena Dzhanova
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An Indigenous mom says if her 2 daughters' deaths 'even had half the coverage' of Gabby Petito's 'maybe they would be solved'
Nicole Wagon's daughter was murdered in 2019. A year later, her other daughter went missing and was…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Ashley Loring HeavyRunner vanished from a Montana reservation in 2017. Her sister says that before she went missing, she wanted to bring awareness to missing and murdered indigenous women.
"Ashley said she wanted to help missing women," Kimberly Loring told Insider. "And a few months lat…