Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 8)

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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Lake Erie Has Garbage Patch That Rivals Those in Oceans

ICTMN Staff

April 11, 2013

As if loads of toxic algae weren’t enough, Lake Erie has come up as the most plastic-laden of the five Great Lakes. Plastic as in Great Garbage Patch...

Muskrat Falls Inuit Arrested Battling Churchill River Hydroelectric Project in Labrador

David P. Ball

April 11, 2013

A 74-year old Inuit elder has ended a hunger strike and been released from jail after being arrested along with seven others protesting the controversial Muskrat Falls hydroelectri...

Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady and Climate Change Advocate

ICTMN Staff

April 09, 2013

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the so-called Iron Lady who passed away on Monday April 8, was one of the first world leaders to draw attention to the potential pe...

Shoshone-Paiute Chairman Terry Gibson Walks On at 52

Vincent Schilling

April 09, 2013

On the evening of April 4 Tribal Chairman Terry Gibson of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribe of the Duck Valley Reservation on the Nevada/Idaho border crossed over at age 52...

Important Cultural, Religious and Historical Resources Threatened by Drilling

Tanya Lee

April 08, 2013

The Hess Corporation’s development of oil resources on Taĥċa Wakutėpi (Killdeer Mountain) on the edge of the North Dakota badlands threatens to destroy the integrity of a site sacr...

Tribes Have Mixed Feelings About Tightrope Walker Coming to the Grand Canyon

Anne Minard

April 07, 2013

Famed tightrope walker Nik Wallenda last made headlines in June 2012 by tightrope walking across Niagara Falls...

Awe-Inspiring Tour of Planets in Our Galactic Neighborhood

ICTMN Staff

April 06, 2013

Soar through space with this amazing video showing our possible brother and sister planets in the universe—just in our galactic neighborhood, in fact...

Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal Spins Like a Top

ICTMN Staff

April 06, 2013

Workers at the aquarium say they don’t know why he does it but he certainly does it often. Type “monk seal spinning” into Google and a number of videos pop up...

President Shelly Signs $2.3 Million Bill to Fund Continued Due Diligence Investigation into Coal Mine Acquisition

ICTMN Staff

April 05, 2013

On April 3, Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly signed legislation that allows $2.3 million from the Undesignated Unreserved Fund Balance to go towards the continuation of the due d...