A massive UK Biobank analysis suggests that objective social isolation may modestly increase cancer risk, particularly in women, highlighting how social conditions and lifestyle factors could shape ...

Recent aerial footage documented by conservation groups and Indigenous affairs agencies has shed light on the lives of some of the world’s most uncontacted tribes, who continue to live without ...

The world is more connected than ever before, courtesy of breakthroughs in technology, and making our tiny blue rock floating through space smaller and smaller. And yet, there are some who still live ...

Loneliness/social isolation isn’t just a transient emotion or situation, it’s turned into a global crisis with serious public health consequences. In 2023, then–US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mongabay interviewed Antenor Vaz, an international expert on recognition methodologies and protection policies for Indigenous peoples in isolation ...

This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. At the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues — the world’s largest convening of Indigenous peoples — Indigenous leaders from ...