Natural languages and dialects, specificity of local terms, and community input should all be taken into account when classifying and indexing indigenous materials. That was the key takeaway at ...

As the world grapples with adapting to a warming planet, Indigenous Peoples are experiencing unique climate-related challenges exacerbated by centuries of having their land overtaken by settlers and ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Describing the benefits of combining laboratory-based techniques and Indigenous knowledges, Stephanie Beaupark harks back to her experience as a weaver. Much like how she once wove Lomandra grass ...

New research about how birds use fire to get a broader food supply comes as no surprise to Indigenous people. Our knowledge of what the denizens of the animal kingdom are up to, especially when humans ...

A number of WWF projects worldwide, including WWF-Thailand’s past project in the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary (part of the Western Forest Complex), are the focus of a new WWF document ...

Forests could also be potential bulwarks against climate change. But, increasingly severe droughts and wildfires, invasive species, and large insect outbreaks -- all intensified by climate change -- ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, an ethnobotanist with the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and lead author of the study, first noticed that ...