Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 10)

Nobel Peace Laureates Urge Obama and Kerry to Nix Keystone XL

Firmly linking the Keystone XL pipeline with climate change...

Turtle Island Being Pulled Toward Europe by Tectonic Plate Activity

All those centuries of wishing that Europeans had never...

Summer Narwhal Hunt Confirmed for 2013

The government of Canada has confirmed that a narwhal hunt...

Cougar Repopulates Turtle Island

The name bestowed on the mighty killer cats of North and...

Hidden Amazon Wildfires Devour More Rainforest Than Logging: NASA

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

World Indigenous Conference: Melding Conservation and Land Rights

Conservation seems like a 100-percent great idea. Who...

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World News

Indigenous Latin Americans Mourn the Death of Hugo Chavez

Rick Kearns

March 12, 2013

For some indigenous people of Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez was someone they could count on and love and many indigenous Latin Americans expressed those same feelings last week...

The Risks of NGO Partnerships in Chilean Mining Towns

ICTMN Staff

March 12, 2013

The presence of Barrick Gold (TSE:ABX) and other mining companies in the northern Chilean town of Copiap ó , and the subsequent demand for labor, is expected to increase the town’s...

Two Year Anniversary of Devastating Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown

ICTMN Staff

March 11, 2013

Two years ago today, Japan was hit with a devastating earthquake, which generated a tsunami, which swept away nearly 30,000 people and took out the nuclear power plant...

Tanzania Restricts Land Investments to Prevent Displacement of Africa's Indigenous

ICTMN Staff

March 11, 2013

As of January 2013, Tanzania will restrict the size of land that investors can lease for agricultural use, reported the Inter Press Service ...

Break Out Your Binoculars, or Not: Comet Pan-STARRS Gives Naked-Eye Sunset Show

ICTMN Staff

March 09, 2013

This weekend is the closest that comet Pan-STARRS gets to the sun, and it is predicted to glow brightly right above the western horizon just after our star sets on the evenings of ...

Study Shows Mother Earth Heading Toward Highest Temperatures in Human History by End Century

ICTMN Staff

March 09, 2013

Greenhouse gases and thus temperatures are skyrocketing and will most likely reach epic proportions by the year 2100, scientists at Oregon State University and Harvard University h...

Turtle Island's Bats Being Decimated by Fungus Most Likely Originating in Europe

ICTMN Staff

March 07, 2013

A fungal disease called white nose syndrome is racing through bat populations across Turtle Island and has killed millions of the tiny mammals, attacking them as they hibernate...

Banish Winter Storm Blues With These Photos of Magnified, Ethereally Delicate Snowflakes

ICTMN Staff

March 06, 2013

It is drummed into us as children that no two snowflakes are alike, and here to prove it is Russian master macro photographer Andrew Osokin, who has immortalized on film a number o...

South African Indigenous Human Rights Brought to the Forefront Following Latest Attacks on Khomani San People

Linda Daniels

March 06, 2013

The torture of a Khomani San elder in South Africa has seen Indigenous Peoples rights activists vent their anger and disbelief that the incident took place in a modern democracy...