Indigenous peoples and local communities have nuanced, in-depth knowledge of climate change impacts that needs to be recognized by scientists and policy-makers, according to researchers. Industrial ...

Environmental scientists are gathering new data about our planet every day. It’s often sampled or collected from land stewarded by Indigenous people, and a new study out of Dartmouth College examines ...

Global biodiversity hotspots, which cover only 2.4% of the Earth’s land, have witnessed more than 80% of armed conflicts between 1950 and 2000, some of which continue even today. Armed conflicts, ...

Valerie Joco ’23 was a political science and philosophy major with an emphasis in pre-law, and a minor in environmental studies, and an 2022-23 Environmental Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for ...

UPDATE: The San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department released updated statistics regarding the health services participants in the Latinx Indigenous Enumeration Study have never received.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The horse is symbolic of the American West, but when and how domesticated horses first reached the region has long been a matter of historical debate. A new analysis of horse bones ...

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Many African food groups significantly reduce oxidative stress linked to type 2 diabetes and lower the production of ...

In Canada, research shows Indigenous women are 400% more likely than other Canadians to go missing. The problem is so pervasive that the Canadian government does not know how many Indigenous women are ...

A landmark report from the Seattle Indian Health Board’s Urban Indian Health Institute paints a critical picture of law enforcement, data collection and media coverage of missing and murdered ...

Even as its counterparts in the Pacific Northwest allowed their students to achieve a degree in Indigenous studies, Oregon State University for years did not. The university offered only a handful of ...