Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 141)

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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Choctaw Nation Helps Tornado Victims

ICTMN Staff

April 21, 2011

The Choctaw Nation in southeastern Oklahoma joined other relief workers in rallying around residents of Tushka this week, where two people died, at least 25 were injured and 149 ho...

Cape Wind Approved, Fight Continues

Gale Courey Toensing

April 21, 2011

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was flanked by supporters of the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the proposed massive wind energy project in Nantucket Sound when h...

Celebrate National Parks Week

ICTMN Staff

April 20, 2011

It's National Park Week (April 16-24), with this year's focus on "Healthy Parks, Healthy People," drawing a connection between environmental and human health and the crucial role o...

Once a Trash Heap, Now Pow Wow Central

Vincent Schilling

April 20, 2011

It used to be a mountain of debris...

Arctic Ice Melting Faster than Expected

ICTMN Staff

April 20, 2011

The latest State of the Arctic Coast report is out, and the news is chilling because the ice is not...

Peru Awajun Tribe Retains Alleged Miners

Renzo Pipoli

April 19, 2011

Members of the Awajun Tribe, living in the northern Peruvian border with Ecuador were retaining as of Tuesday morning as many as eight people still unidentified who were caught cam...

Minnesota Wild Rice at Risk if Copper-Nickel Mining Industry Wins Out

ICTMN Staff

April 19, 2011

Businesses and lawmakers are pushing to loosen Minnesota's water quality regulations to allow copper and nickel mining in the northeastern region of the state, reported the Associa...

May 2 Deadline for $1.9 Million in Environment Education Initiative Grants

ICTMN Staff

April 19, 2011

A slew of grant funding is available over the next several months for state, local and tribal governments from several federal agencies, and application deadlines are approaching q...

Mountain Pine Beetle Jumps Species, Spreading its Reach

ICTMN Staff

April 18, 2011

Mountain pine beetles, traditionally confined to the lodgepole pine, have made the jump to the jack pine, potentially endangering forests from British Columbia to the east coast, i...

Flooding Postpones First Nations Environmental Conference

ICTMN Staff

April 17, 2011

Canada's prairie region has flooded so badly that an environmental-health conference has been postponed so that the participants can focus on their inundated communities, the Feder...