Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 126)

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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Gitga’at and Spirit Bear Grace National Geographic’s August Cover

ICTMN Staff

July 29, 2011

It’s a “white-knuckled fight” against the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline from the Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, and the Gitga'at First Nation is determined to safeguard the m...

Ontario Evacuees Start Joyful Return Home

ICTMN Staff

July 28, 2011

Bearing pillows and wearing grins, residents of Sandy Lake First Nation began returning home from their temporary fire-induced exile on July 28...

Squaxin Island Tribe Works Toward Restoration of Deschutes River

Terri Hansen

July 28, 2011

Reprinted with permissions from the Coast Salish Gathering News The scenic 260-acre Capitol Lake by Washington State’s capitol building in Olympia looks like a fresh water, scenic ...

Dene Nation Votes to Oppose Enbridge Pipeline

ICTMN Staff

July 27, 2011

The fight against Enbridge’s plans to build a pipeline through the heart of aboriginal territory got a recent boost when the Dene Nation, comprising 35 chiefs whose territory stret...

Oregon Sets Highest Fish Consumption Rate in U.S., Based on Native Peoples’ Higher Rate of Consumption

Coast Salish Gathering News

July 27, 2011

After 20 years of study and effort by tribes in Oregon, the state Environmental Quality Commission in June approved a dramatic change in water quality rules, setting some of the st...

New Washington State Law Lifts Critical-Areas Protections on Agricultural Lands

Coast Salish Gathering News

July 27, 2011

In May, Washington Gov...

UNDRIP Holds Sway: Cartier Suspends Barriere Copper Mine Plan

Gale Courey Toensing

July 27, 2011

The Barriere Lake Algonquin community has reason to celebrate the effectiveness of its direct actions...

National Parks Service Proposal Would Allow Natives to Take Plants and Minerals

ICTMN Staff

July 27, 2011

According to Phil Taylor of Greenwire, in an article posted to NYTimes.com , the National Park Service may soon recommend a change in its rules that would allow American Indians to...

Is Indigenous Knowledge Intellectual Property?

ICTMN Staff

July 25, 2011

Indigenous or traditional knowledge has become a buzzword in environmental circles, with puzzled scientists often wondering whether age-old wisdom might hold answers...