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Indigenous Peoples & Traditional Knowledges

An image of villagers from Huamantanga constructing a shallow stone canal to divert water down a hillside
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Pre-Inca Canal System Uses Hillsides as Sponges to Store Water

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 30 December 201915 October 2021

To prepare for a drier future on Peru’s western coast, researchers are turning to techniques of the past.

Five people hike through a green-forested area in central Puerto Rico on a sunny day.
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Keeping Indigenous Science Knowledge out of a Colonial Mold

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 11 December 20198 October 2021

A new working model could help scientists design and facilitate research that adheres to both scientific and cultural ethics standards when working with indigenous knowledge about climate and the environment.

Raychelle Daniel and family on a boat off the Alaskan coast circa 1980.
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Understanding Our Environment Requires an Indigenous Worldview

by R. Daniel 5 December 201921 March 2023

As geoscience and policy-making communities begin to recognize the importance of including Indigenous knowledge into their work, we must place the proper value on it through equitable time and funding.

The abandoned Giant Mine dominates a forested landscape
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Indigenous Knowledge Puts Industrial Pollution in Perspective

by T. Burke 26 September 201928 February 2023

A 3-year project documents how climate change is affecting the sequestration of decades-old mining by-products in Canadian lakes.

Photograph of an ancient Norse archeological site, called Anavik, in western Greenland
Posted inNews

Global Warming Is Conquering the Vikings

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 27 August 201916 December 2021

Ancient Arctic artifacts are disappearing as warming unfurls.

Indigenous Brazilian people protest with signs
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Murders of Environmentalists Have Doubled in 15 Years

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 9 August 201919 October 2021

Indigenous people defending their lands are particularly at risk, and watchdog groups warn that criminalization of environmental activism is also on the rise.

A series of petroglyphs of animal, human, and plant images on a cliff wall
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European Contact with the Americas May Have Triggered Global Cooling

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 8 April 20199 September 2024

The loss of precontact agricultural communities to genocide and disease may have led to massive reforestation, a dip in carbon dioxide, and one of the coldest snaps of the Little Ice Age.

Vegetation growing in the heathlands of Chobham Common, Surrey
Posted inScience Updates

Ancient Fires and Indigenous Knowledge Inform Fire Policies

by C. Adolf, D. Hawthorne and D. Colombaroli 22 March 20194 May 2022

Global Paleofire Working Group 2: Diverse Knowledge Systems for Fire Policy and Biodiversity Conservation; Egham, United Kingdom, 4–9 September 2018

A view of Séliš Ksanka QÍispé Dam
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Indigenous Symposium on Water Research, Education, and Engagement

by K. Chief, R. E. Emanuel and O. Conroy-Ben 24 January 201924 February 2023

Water in the Native World: The Intersection of Hydrology and Indigenous Knowledge; Pablo, Montana, 1–4 August 2018

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Exploring the Impact of a Changing Climate on Tribal Communities

by N. B. Watts and D. M. Dalbotten 20 October 20158 October 2021

GA3: A Changing Climate's Effect on Rivers, Estuaries, Oceans, First Foods, and Tribal Health; Portland, Oregon, 21–23 March 2015

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