YES! Magazine

How Indigenous Knowledge Reconnects Us All to Fire

“Our human relationship with fire goes back thousands and thousands of years,” says Damon Panek, wildland fires operations specialist for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and enrolled ...
Government Technology

How Indigenous Knowledge Is Changing Natural Hazard Mitigation

All around the world natural disasters continue to wreak havoc as emergency managers strive for new ways to reduce the damage through sound mitigation practices. At the same time, several indigenous ...
Grist

For Indigenous communities, protecting traditional knowledge means reimagining how it is preserved

This story is part of Fix’s Mentorship Issue exploring the unique ways climate leaders found their calling, and how new approaches to mentorship are upending old power structures. Check out the full ...
Beyond Pesticides

On Indigenous Peoples Day, Highlighting Indigenous Knowledge To Address the Biodiversity Crisis

(Beyond Pesticides, October 9, 2023) On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the world turns its attention to the invaluable wisdom that Indigenous communities possess, highlighting their crucial role in ...
Science Daily

The quiet loss of knowledge threatens indigenous communities

Most of the knowledge that indigenous communities in South America have about plants is not written down. Now, ecologists at the University of Zurich have analyzed comprehensive information about the ...
CounterPunch

Organized Indigenous Communities and Indigenous Knowledge Can Prevent the Spread of Covid19

With the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic in Latin American countries, indigenous peoples and communities face the challenges that this disease brings, the contagion of which has proven to be ...
Science Friday

Indigenous Knowledge Is Central To Climate Solutions

As the United States observes Earth Day this year, many will be thinking about their personal relationship with—and responsibility to—the planet. But in an era of multiple planetary crises, including ...
unr.edu

Indigenous Knowledge could inform sustainability efforts in the Amazon

A multi-disciplinary group of researchers including four professors from the Hitchcock Center for Chemical Ecology was recently awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Rules of Life ...
Mother Jones

DC Regulators Are Welcoming Indigenous Knowledge—and the Right Is Freaking Out

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last September, when the Biden administration canceled several oil and gas leases in ...
UNESCO

Navigating Change Through Indigenous Knowledge: A Nepali Perspective

As climate change accelerates and cultural landscapes transform, the wisdom of Indigenous communities offers pathways to resilience and sustainability. UNESCO’s recent publication, Indigenous ...
Center for American Progress

The Biden Administration’s Conservation Plan Must Prioritize Indigenous Leadership

In its efforts to protect 30 percent of U.S. lands and ocean by 2030, the federal government has an obligation to acknowledge tribal sovereignty and support Indigenous-led conservation. Water ...