Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 138)

Oklahoma Awakes to Grim New Reality as Recovery Efforts Begin

As Oklahoma awoke to a devastating new reality—inasmuch as...

President Obama to Oklahoma: Every Resource Is at Your Disposal

As responders, including at least 250 National Guardsmen,...

Tornadoes Slice Through Midwest, Threatening Indian Country

Tornadoes cut swathes of destruction through Indian country...

Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Consultation Meeting Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials

Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sovereign nations walked...

Climate Change: Arctic Ocean Is Acidifying Fast, Study Shows

The Arctic Ocean is heating up, its ice and permafrost are...

Climate Change: Mount Everest Is Melting

In what may be the most glaring example of climate change...

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Ice Melt

ICTMN Staff

May 15, 2011

Attendees of the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Nuuk, Greenland, received sobering news about temperature rises in the region at the release of the Arctic Monitoring and Ass...

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...