American Indians Feel the Effects of Climate Change at Higher Rate Than Other Groups

ICTMN Staff
August 09, 2011
According to a new study from the National Wildlife Federation, American Indians suffer more from climate change than other groups...

American Indians Vital in Climate Change Discussions

Jodi Rave
June 30, 2011
On Sept. 13, 2007, I watched the UN General Assembly in New York vote for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...

Marine Life May be on Brink of ‘Phase of Extinction’

ICTMN Staff
June 22, 2011
A panel convened at Oxford University has issued a strong statement about the condition of the world's oceans now and for the foreseeable future...
Billy Frank Jr.

Being Frank: Tribes are Reacting to Climate Change

The pictures don't lie. Climate change combined with the continued loss of salmon habitat caused by human development is taking a toll on natural resources. The damage to salmon and the people who have always depended on salmon is significant....

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June 03, 2011

Statement of the Global Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus to UNPFII-10

ICTMN Staff
May 17, 2011
The following statement was delivered to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Tenth Session by Ghazali Ohorella, from Maluku, between the Philippines and Austral...

Ice Melt

ICTMN Staff
May 15, 2011
Attendees of the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Nuuk, Greenland, received sobering news about temperature rises in the region at the release of the Arctic Monitoring and Ass...

High Aboriginal Diabetes Rate Sparks Innovative Solutions

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
Canada’s aboriginal peoples, in addition to registering the country’s highest rates of tuberculosis, have other disproportionately high health problems too...

Morales to Open Seventh Seventh Session of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Gale Courey Toensing
April 23, 2008
Forum to focus on climate change More than 2,500 representatives of the world’s 370 million indigenous people gathered in New York for the seventh session of the United Nations Per...

Climate Change Meetings Focus on Adaptation

ICTMN Staff
April 27, 2011
Climate change is altering traditional ways of life worldwide, and two meetings in Montana this week will focus on the impact of those changes, what is being done to work within th...

Liquefying Glaciers

ICTMN Staff
April 24, 2011
This serene Arctic scene belies the scary truth: The Arctic ice is melting faster than anyone knew, and the glaciers on the Canadian archipelago have already melted enough water to...

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