Native Environmental News and Articles

$110 Billion-Plus in Disaster Damages for 2012, Surpassed Only by Year of Hurricane Katrina: NOAA

The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA)...

Hidden Amazon Wildfires Devour More Rainforest Than Logging: NASA

Hidden, low-undergrowth fires are taking a bigger toll on...

Gray Wolves Would Be Removed From Endangered Species List Under New Plan

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed taking the...

Tropical Storm Andrea Bears Down on Florida as Feisty Hurricane Season Gets Under Way

The first named storm of the six-month Atlantic hurricane...

Three States Debate Water Use as Apalachicola Bay Oyster Harvest Collapses

Apalachicola Bay, in the crook of the Florida Panhandle,...

Oklahoma Tornadoes: New Website Collects Aid for Native Victims

The lives of at least 50 Native families have been turned...

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Watch Mexico’s Popocatepetl Volcano Blast Massive Ash Plume: Video

ICTMN Staff

June 19, 2013

Mexico’s famed Popocatepetl volcano, known affectionately in those parts as Popo, has been feisty lately, spewing out ash and lava 300 times in May and fueling predictions for a ma...

National Sacred Places Prayer Days Starts Tomorrow

ICTMN Staff

June 19, 2013

Observances and ceremonies are being held across Turtle Island from June 20 to June 26 to celebrate the 2013 National Prayer Days to protect Native American Sacred Places...

Nobel Peace Laureates Urge Obama and Kerry to Nix Keystone XL

ICTMN Staff

June 18, 2013

Firmly linking the Keystone XL pipeline with climate change, 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners are urging President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to reject the project...

Turtle Island Being Pulled Toward Europe by Tectonic Plate Activity

ICTMN Staff

June 18, 2013

All those centuries of wishing that Europeans had never come to Turtle Island may well be rendered moot—at least, in a couple of million years...

Galena, Alaska Struggles to Rebuild After Yukon River Ice Jam Causes Devastating Flood

ICTMN Staff

June 17, 2013

Tiny Galena, Alaska, is struggling after 90 percent of its buildings were destroyed by Yukon River flooding that overwhelmed the 400-resident, mostly Native village...

Grooming Local Guides For Bristol Bay’s Growing Sport Fishing Industry

Lee Allen

June 17, 2013

For many young people in rural Alaskan communities, finding a job with a decent and reliable income is challenging...

Renewing Awe and Gratitude With a Trip to the Edge of the Universe

ICTMN Staff

June 15, 2013

It’s a wonderland of receding planetary bodies and galaxy clusters that takes us to the edges of our cosmic horizon, looking from the outside in at what resembles a dense blue sphe...

Antarctic Ice Sheets, Melting From Underneath, Dissolving Faster Than Anyone Knew

ICTMN Staff

June 15, 2013

Antarctic ice, long thought to be disappearing more slowly than that of the Arctic or even growing slightly, has been sneakily melting from underneath, a new study shows...