Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 125)

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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Tribal College Goes Ultra-Green with New Building

Carol Berry

August 10, 2011

It’s a first: the new math and science building at Blackfeet Community College in Browning, Montana is a trend-setter in the world of green technology...

The Ten Mile River, in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, on the Road to Recovery

Carol Berry

August 09, 2011

During the Industrial Revolution, the Ten Mile River, which flows through Attleboro, Massachusetts was heavily polluted and left for dead, with factory pipes discharging pollutants...

American Indians Feel the Effects of Climate Change at Higher Rate Than Other Groups

ICTMN Staff

August 09, 2011

According to a new study from the National Wildlife Federation, American Indians suffer more from climate change than other groups...

Coal Power Plants and Mercury on the Navajo Nation

Carol Berry

August 08, 2011

Navajo and other Native people who live beneath the massive grid that carries power from the Colorado Plateau to distant cities have long criticized its creation of bad water and p...

Cohen Commission’s Inquiry Extended Another Year Due to Importance of Findings

Lisa Wilcox

August 08, 2011

Editor’s note: The Cohen Commission in its second year of investigating the dramatic decline of sockeye in the Fraser River has drawn profound interest from First Nations and other...

Navajo Aquifer Concerns May Prove True

Carol Berry

August 05, 2011

For years, Native opponents of a massive strip mine on Black Mesa in northern Arizona have said longstanding extractive practices of Peabody Energy Corp...

Sacred Site Preserved but Ceremonies Affected

Carol Berry

August 03, 2011

Through centuries, Northern Arapaho hunters tracked deer, bison and antelope across the plains at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in present-day eastern Colorado, where tribal memb...

B.C. Supreme Court Upholds Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations Fishing Rights

Lisa Wilcox

August 02, 2011

Reprinted with permissions from the Coast Salish Gathering News. — Eds...

Mountain Lion Killed in Connecticut Came from Lakota Country, via Wisconsin

ICTMN Staff

August 02, 2011

The results of a DNA test performed on a mountain lion killed in Milford, Connecticut on June 11 show that it originated in the Black Hills of South Dakota, according to a report b...