Tag: Indigenous
The Amazon is not safe under Brazil’s new president – a...
Robert T. Walker, University of Florida
Conservationists breathed a sigh of relief when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won...
Why Indigenous communities need a seat at the table on climate
Ray Minniecon, NAIITS
There’s growing recognition that Indigenous communities are among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate...
2021 Arctic Report Card reveals a (human) story of cascading disruptions,...
Matthew Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Twila Moon, University of Colorado Boulder
The first Thanksgiving is a key chapter in America’s origin story...
Peter C. Mancall, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the...
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Why it’s replacing Columbus Day in many places
Susan C. Faircloth, Colorado State University
Columbus Day celebrations in the United States – meant to honor the legacy...
How do archaeologists know where to dig?
Gabriel D. Wrobel, Michigan State University and Stacey Camp, Michigan State University
National Geographic magazines and Indiana Jones movies might have you picturing archaeologists excavating...
Protecting half of the planet is the best way to fight...
Greg Asner, Arizona State University
Humans are dismantling and disrupting natural ecosystems around the globe and changing Earth’s climate. Over the past 50 years, actions...
Why Native Americans struggle to protect their sacred places
Rosalyn R. LaPier, The University of Montana
Forty years ago the U.S. Congress passed the American Indian Religious Freedom Act so that Native Americans could...
EXPLORING NATURE
Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed
Uwe Bergmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Thomas Linker, Stanford University
X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see...
