In rural and Indigenous communities with limited access to weather data, generations of farmers, fishers, herders, hunters and orchardists have relied on indicators such as the first snowfall, ...
As a descendant of an Indigenous Amazonian tribe, Maria Astolfi was concerned about research she conducted as a graduate student at UC Berkeley involving an extract of a plant long used for medicinal ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Joseph Lee, an author and freelance journalist, is a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe from Martha’s Vineyard in ...
As governments and conservation organizations search for solutions to the interconnected crises of biodiversity loss, climate ...
In the field of ecology, researchers are interested in understanding the complexities and interactions of the many organisms that make up our environments. Over the past two decades, the knowledges of ...
(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 ...
One summer afternoon when I was seven or eight years old, I went for a hike with my grandfather and uncle in the Chuska Mountains of Navajo Nation to search for medicinal plants for traditional ...
Less attention has been paid to how AI expansion may affect environments, water and biodiversity, or the rights of ...
How AI expansion may affect environments, water and biodiversity, or the rights of communities whose territories and ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Local and Indigenous communities can now track deforestation, monitor biodiversity and respond to threats on their territories quickly with tools ...
The world’s oceans are facing mounting pressure from climate change, pollution and unsustainable human activity, according to the United Nations’ Third World Ocean Assessment, a sweeping scientific ...