Native Environmental News and Articles

Climate Change: Mount Everest Is Melting

In what may be the most glaring example of climate change...

Descending Drought Puts Klamath Tribes and Farmers on Brink of Water War

The Klamath Tribes possess the oldest water rights in the...

Navajo Council Forms Liability Company to Buy Navajo Mine

The Navajo Nation Council has voted to form a limited...

Tribes Benefit From Portion of Nearly $1 Million in Grants to 56 National Parks

Tribal culture may benefit from some of nearly $1 million...

Mississippi Water Walkers Arrive in Louisiana With Water From the River's Source

Today the mouth of the Mississippi River will drink from...

Fill Gaps in Keystone XL Draft Environment Report or Reject Pipeline, NCAI Tells Obama Administration

Noting a lack of “critical information” about potential...

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Flight of Fancy: What the Planets Would Look Like if They Were as Close as the Moon

ICTMN Staff

May 18, 2013

Watching planets and stars as they appear in the sky is captivating, but gazing at pinpricks of light glistening against the celestial sphere doesn’t give the heavenward ogler a se...

Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Consultation Meeting Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials

ICTMN Staff

May 17, 2013

Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sovereign nations walked out of a meeting with U.S...

Full Text of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Association Statement Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

ICTMN Staff

May 17, 2013

On this historic day of May 16, 2013, ten sovereign Indigenous nations maintain that the proposed TransCanada/Keystone XL pipeline does not serve the national interest and in fact ...

Cherokee Nation Developing Largest Tribal Wind Farm in U.S.

ICTMN Staff

May 17, 2013

The site of a former Indian boarding school in Kay County, Oklahoma will soon become the largest wind farm on tribal land in the United States...

Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed for Road Fill in Belize

ICTMN Staff

May 16, 2013

A construction company in Belize all but destroyed a Mayan pyramid more than 2,000 years old, using the crushed rock for road fill, the Associated Press has reported...

Ciudad Blanca, the Lost White City of Honduras, Possibly Found Under Rainforest

ICTMN Staff

May 16, 2013

From the air it looks like a sea of green...

Climate Change: Arctic Ocean Is Acidifying Fast, Study Shows

ICTMN Staff

May 15, 2013

The Arctic Ocean is heating up, its ice and permafrost are melting, and now … its ocean is acidifying...

Climate Change: Mount Everest Is Melting

ICTMN Staff

May 14, 2013

In what may be the most glaring example of climate change yet, the glaciers atop iconic Mount Everest are melting...

Indian Country Leading Green-Building Revolution

Nate Seltenrich

May 14, 2013

On the 108-acre Pinoleville Rancheria in Ukiah, California, two hours north of San Francisco, Nathan Rich showed me around the new home he planned to move into with his three kids...