Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 137)

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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Contention Over Glen Cove Sacred Site

ICTMN Staff

May 15, 2011

A video posted on YouTube on April 30 by JAHCE3 shows Glen Cove Shell Mound supporters burning sage, while people from the Greater Vallejo Recreation District (GVRD) were trying to...

Rep. Young for Domestic Production in Offshore Drilling Debate

ICTMN Staff

May 14, 2011

Alaskan Congressman Don Young addressed the House floor recently in support of H.R. 1231, the Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act ...

Nunavik Makes National Geo Traveler's Top 50 Tours List for 2011

ICTMN Staff

May 14, 2011

Nunavik has made National Geographic Traveler ’s bucket list...

Yurok Declares Seaweed Clean

ICTMN Staff

May 13, 2011

The Yurok Tribe , concerned about radiation from Japan's leaky nuclear plant in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, had seaweed tested and found no radioactive isotope...

Traditional Knowledge Complements Modern Science

Carol Berry

May 12, 2011

When polar scientist Henry Huntington was studying a drop in the beluga whale population in Alaska some years ago, he and his colleagues were stumped by conversations they had with...

Farmers, Fishermen and Tribes Working Together to Preserve CA Delta

Dan Bacher

May 11, 2011

Family farmers and fishermen, along with California Indian tribes and grassroots environmentalists, are working closely together to preserve the imperiled Sacramento–San Joaquin Ri...

Poarch Tribe Donates $500,000 to Tornado Relief

ICTMN Staff

May 11, 2011

When tornadoes cut a deadly swathe through northwestern Alabama last month, the Poarch Creek Band of Creek Indians Tribe (Muskogee) stood ready to help ...

Bison, Givers of Life: Lakota Women Speak

ICTMN Staff

May 10, 2011

Women on the Pine Ridge Reservation talk about the spiritual, cultural and nutritional role that the American buffalo, or bison, has played in tribal life historically and today...

Northwest and Canada Have Proactive Plan in Case of Trans-border Oil Spill

ICTMN Staff

May 09, 2011

Being proactive and making rules and responses uniform in the case of a trans-border oil spill is on the agenda of officials in Washington State, Alaska and British Columbia...

Alberta’s Biggest Oil Spill Since 1975 Casts More Doubt on Oil Sands

ICTMN Staff

May 09, 2011

As details emerge about a 28,000-barrel oil spill from a pipeline rupture in northern Alberta, Canada, environmentalists and indigenous leaders are calling for a halt to the notion...