Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 128)

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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Documentary Featuring the Fight Between Ford and Ramapough Indians Premieres Tonight

Vincent Schilling

July 18, 2011

In 2006, approximately 30 years after the Ford Motor Company had dumped toxic waste on the land of the Ramapough Mountain Indians, the Ramapough filed a class action lawsuit agains...

Activists in Peru Denounce Plans for Uncontacted Native Lands

David Dudenhoefer

July 18, 2011

With less than two weeks left in office, the administration of Peruvian President Alan Garcia faces a new controversy over its treatment of uncontacted Natives in the country’s Ama...

Melting Andes Glaciers Worry Peru Indigenous Peoples

Barbara Fraser

July 18, 2011

As the moon waxed to fullness in June, tens of thousands of pilgrims trekked toward the Sinakara Valley high in Peru’s Andes Mountains for a ritual deeply rooted in the history and...

National Parks Day Celebrates Parks’ 100th Anniversary

Hans Tammemagi

July 16, 2011

In Canada, Saturday July 16 is Parks Day, and this year it has special significance. Cross-country celebrations will mark the 100th anniversary of Parks Canada...

Indonesia’s Indigenous Cek Bo Cek’s Map for Life

Veby Mega

July 15, 2011

The International Conference of Forest Tenurial, Governance and Enterprises in Lombok, Indonesia, is purportedly a forum at which all stakeholders can discuss their issues over for...

Beautiful Bristol Bay Is Popular with Both Salmon and Tourists

Hans Tammemagi

July 15, 2011

At the edge of the Arctic lies a primordial land where immense tectonic plates collide...

Xaxli’p Elder Mauled to Death by Bear in B.C.

ICTMN Staff

July 14, 2011

The small, remote British Columbia community of Xaxli’p First Nation is mourning the woman its members called “Aunt” after respected elder Bernice Evelyn Adolph was killed by a bla...

Aquinnah Wampanoag Sues Feds Over Cape Wind

Gale Courey Toensing

July 14, 2011

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has filed a lawsuit to stop the development of a massive offshore wind energy plant in an area of Nantucket Sound that is sacred to the P...

Flash Flooding Follows Forest Fires

Lee Allen

July 11, 2011

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer surprised few attendees at the Western Governors’ Association meeting last week when she acknowledged that one of her biggest fears as she began running...

Natives Say Forest Service Broke Rules, Obama Administration Asked to Investigate

Rob Capriccioso

July 11, 2011

In the latest twist to the saga involving the increasingly likely desecration of sites held sacred by some American Indians, a coalition of Indian citizens has filed a last-ditch l...