Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 148)

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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Crow Judge Denies Petition to Stop Water Settlement Act Vote

Gale Courey Toensing

March 17, 2011

A Crow tribal court judge has denied a petition for a temporary restraining order to halt a referendum asking Crow members to ratify the Crow Water Settlement Act of 2010...

Sheila Watt-Cloutier to Receive Honorary Degree from University of Northern British Columbia

ICTMN Staff

March 17, 2011

Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier will receive an honorary degree from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)...

Peru Generals Sentenced, Fined Over Native Killings

Renzo Pipoli

March 17, 2011

News broke this week that three high-ranking Peruvian police and army generals were given suspended prison sentences and fined by a military court, the result of findings that they...

South Dakota's Underground Laboratories

Brenda Austin

March 17, 2011

An abandoned gold mine in Lead, South Dakota is rapidly being transformed into a trove of scientific treasure, and the world’s science community—and many American Indian nations—ar...

EPA Releases Emissions Rules for Coal-fired Power Plants

ICTMN Staff

March 16, 2011

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday issued the first-ever U.S...

EPA Poised to Issue Industrial-emissions Rules

ICTMN Staff

March 16, 2011

Coal-plant mercury emissions will soon be regulated, good news for the tens of thousands of American Indians whose lives have been poisoned by mercury and other contaminants...

Tsunami Surge Swept Yurok Descendant, 25, to Sea at Mouth of Klamath River

ICTMN Staff

March 16, 2011

A 25-year-old man and descendant of the Yurok Tribe was swept out to sea at the mouth of the Klamath River on March 11, reported the Associated Press ...

Seneca Nation Hires High-Powered Consultants to Help with Kinzua Relicensing Efforts

Gale Courey Toensing

March 15, 2011

ALLEGANY TERRITORY, Salamanca, NY – The Seneca Nation of Indians has hired two high-powered Pennsylvania firms to help in its efforts to win the hydropower license for the Kinzua D...

Historic Document Opposing Kinzua Dam Returned to Seneca Nation

Gale Courey Toensing

March 15, 2011

It’s browned, tattered around the edges with a few tears and a tape mark in the middle, but the 55-year-old document was welcomed with gratitude by the Seneca Nation of Indians ...