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Indigenous Peoples & Traditional Knowledges

Cassius Spears Jr., wearing an orange hat, crouches in a forest and holds up a brown plant.
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Cassius Spears Jr.: Conserving the Living Soil

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 28 July 202528 July 2025

This soil scientist braids the Traditional Ecological Knowledge of his ancestors with modern soil conservation practices to help Rhode Island’s farmers and land stewards.

Trees growing in a green swamp
Posted inResearch & Developments

Environmental Groups Sue to Block Everglades Detention Facility

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 1 July 202511 August 2025

The groups assert that the facility will undermine decades’ of work and billions of dollars spent restoring and protecting the Everglades’ delicate ecosystem.

Photo taken from a plane of a small community by a body of water.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Work with Indigenous Communities Advances Community Science

by Raj Pandya 2 May 20251 May 2025

Drawing from climate co-production work with the community of Kake in Alaska, two new studies offer insights for doing community science—especially, but not only, with Indigenous communities.

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Posted inResearch Spotlights

Teaming Up to Tailor Climate Education for Indigenous Communities

by Saima May Sidik 30 April 20255 May 2025

A new college-level curriculum, cocreated by Indigenous and Western researchers, could help Indigenous communities adapt to climate change on the Colorado Plateau.

Una foto desenfocada de personas con trajes naranjas trabajando junto a vegetación en llamas.
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¿Seis mil años de quema controlada arruinados?

by Bill Morris 20 February 202524 February 2025

Al alterar prácticas milenarias de gestión del fuego, la colonización creó una situación mortal en los bosques australianos, pero aún no se sabe hasta qué punto se extendió la “quema cultural”.

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Six Thousand Years of Controlled Burning, Up in Smoke?

by Bill Morris 3 January 20257 January 2025

By disrupting millennia-old fire management practices, colonization created a deadly situation in Australian forests, but the jury is out on just how widespread “cultural burning” was.

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A Major Miner Problem

by Emily Dieckman 19 December 20242 January 2025

Economic geology, mining, and mineral resources programs are working to meet the needs of an industry that’s struggling to find employees—at a time when some say they’re needed more than ever.

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O Legado Rico em Nutrientes nas Terras Pretas da Amazônia

by Kate Evans 7 November 20247 November 2024

Os solos férteis de terra preta foram criados através de séculos de uso da terra cuidadosamente administrado. Os cientistas estão colhendo referências desses solos para remover o carbono e melhorar o solo para a agricultura.

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On the Wisconsin-Iowa Border, the Mississippi River Is Eroding Sacred Indigenous Mounds

by Madeline Heim and Frank Vaisvilas 24 October 202424 October 2024

A multimillion-dollar bank stabilization project could protect historic sites dating back thousands of years.

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More than a Third of Coastal Alaska Structures May Be at Risk of Flooding by 2100

by Grace van Deelen 12 June 202412 June 2024

A new analysis of flood exposure shows many residential buildings at risk as sea levels rise.

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