The huge project on public land, approved by the Trump administration in its final days, has sparked an outcry and a lawsuit, but opposition among Native Americans is not unanimous.

NBC News followed a team bringing vaccine doses to remote regions of Uganda. The African nation has only enough vaccines to protect 1 percent of its people.

How mica mined by kids in Madagascar ends up in products used by millions of Americans.

The private company that runs an oil pipeline in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest stopped pumping oil Saturday after a rupture in the pipeline.

As oil companies carve up more of the rainforest, a new study says no place in the world uses more oil from beneath the Amazon than California.

Tribal members in Arizona are fighting to protect a piece of land they consider their "Mount Sinai."

The hoarding of vaccine doses by rich countries has complicated the effort to secure enough for the world’s poorest nations.

The new characters, Noor Yasmin and Aziz, are part of an effort to boost early education for children inside the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh.

The move follows a 2019 NBC News investigation that revealed children as young as 4 were working in underground mica pits in the African nation.

The Aguilar sisters work in the fields 40 hours a week. They're also high school students, doing homework when they can. Many nights they go without sleep.

The testimony marks the first time members of Myanmar’s military have admitted to what the U.N. and international prosecutors call a genocidal campaign against the Rohingya.