Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 147)

$110 Billion-Plus in Disaster Damages for 2012, Surpassed Only by Year of Hurricane Katrina: NOAA

The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA)...

Hidden Amazon Wildfires Devour More Rainforest Than Logging: NASA

Hidden, low-undergrowth fires are taking a bigger toll on...

Gray Wolves Would Be Removed From Endangered Species List Under New Plan

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed taking the...

Tropical Storm Andrea Bears Down on Florida as Feisty Hurricane Season Gets Under Way

The first named storm of the six-month Atlantic hurricane...

Three States Debate Water Use as Apalachicola Bay Oyster Harvest Collapses

Apalachicola Bay, in the crook of the Florida Panhandle,...

Oklahoma Tornadoes: New Website Collects Aid for Native Victims

The lives of at least 50 Native families have been turned...

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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...

Seven Boxes, 30,000 Comments Opposed to Fracking

ICTMN Staff

April 16, 2011

As April 15 wound down, the last thing some federal officials were thinking about was tax day...

Threatened Amazon Tribes Fight Back

David Dudenhoefer

April 15, 2011

The BBC footage shot last year from a small plane over the rain forest of western Brazil resembles a scene from Avatar ...

Yurok Acquire 22,000 Acres of Ancestral Territory on Lower Klamath

ICTMN Staff

April 15, 2011

Ancestral lands around the lower Klamath River in California now officially belong to the Yurok Tribe, after its acquisition of 22,237 acres from the Green Diamond Resource Company...

Huu-ay-aht First Nation—Abalone Project

ICTMN Staff

April 15, 2011

APTN's environmental series Down2Earth profiles indigenous peoples' work in Canada and around the world as they combine contemporary training with their traditional knowledge to so...

APTN’s Down2Earth Documentary Series Wins Award

ICTMN Staff

April 15, 2011

The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network’s (APTN) Down2Earth environmental-documentary show is a winner in the first Canadian Environmental Media Awards, to be handed out on April...

New Law Bolsters Oil Spill Prevention, Readiness

Richard Walker

April 15, 2011

The Makah Nation’s territory includes the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, gateway to a vast inland sea and all of the ecological wonders therein...