Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 156)

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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Conoco Mega-loads a Go; Others Pending

Jack McNeel

February 01, 2011

ConocoPhillips has gotten permission to begin moving four mega-loads of mining equipment from Lewiston to Billings, Mont. The first two loads were scheduled to be moved on Feb...

Pine Ridge to Storm: Bring It!

Brenda Austin

February 01, 2011

PINE RIDGE, S.D...

Tribes Work with Feds on Eagle Feather Ceremonial Use

Carol Berry

January 31, 2011

DENVER—The eagle, cultural icon to Native Americans and the U.S...

Nez Perce Oppose Mega-loads Through Reservation

Jack McNeel

January 31, 2011

Lapwai, Idaho – If Exxon Mobile Corp., ConocoPhillips and other conglomerates have their way, 140-ton, 210-foot-long mega-load trucks may soon be rumbling within 50 feet of the sit...

Caribou and Lynx Studies Net C$1 Million in Grants

ICTMN Staff

January 30, 2011

North American lynx populations and caribou herds are on the agenda for two Trent University researchers receiving grants of about C$500,000 each from the Natural Sciences and Engi...

Clean Energy Grants Available for Tribal Communities

ICTMN Staff

January 29, 2011

Two new initiatives worth a total of $10 million will promote clean, renewable energy on tribal lands this year through the U.S...

TransCanada Former CEO to Head Alberta Oil Sands Panel

ICTMN Staff

January 29, 2011

Hal Kvisle, who was TransCanada Corp.’s chief executive officer until last year, is one of the new leaders of the Alberta government’s new oil sands environmental monitoring panel,...

The FDA is Reviewing a Genetically Altered ‘Super-Salmon,’ and Critics Aren’t Fishing for Compliments

ICTMN Staff

January 28, 2011

"I wish the government would remember why we’re so close to a world without salmon,” Winnemem Wintu Tribal Chief and Spiritual Leader Caleen Sisk-Franco wrote in the California Pro...

State of the Salmon: SOTU Ref Elicits Cheers and Jeers

ICTMN Staff

January 28, 2011

Salmon conservationists lauded President Obama’s inclusion of “one of America’s most beloved creatures in an address watched by tens of millions” during his State of the Union spee...

Conservation Groups Seek Klamath Chinook Protection

ICTMN Staff

January 28, 2011

California may have earned kudos for its ambitious plan to clean up its portion of the Klamath River, but four conservation groups on Thursday said the waterway’s chinook salmon ca...