Indigenous people defending their lands are particularly at risk, and watchdog groups warn that criminalization of environmental activism is also on the rise.
Indigenous Peoples & Traditional Knowledges
European Contact with the Americas May Have Triggered Global Cooling
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.
Ancient Fires and Indigenous Knowledge Inform Fire Policies
Global Paleofire Working Group 2: Diverse Knowledge Systems for Fire Policy and Biodiversity Conservation; Egham, United Kingdom, 4–9 September 2018
Indigenous Symposium on Water Research, Education, and Engagement
Water in the Native World: The Intersection of Hydrology and Indigenous Knowledge; Pablo, Montana, 1–4 August 2018
Exploring the Impact of a Changing Climate on Tribal Communities
GA3: A Changing Climate's Effect on Rivers, Estuaries, Oceans, First Foods, and Tribal Health; Portland, Oregon, 21–23 March 2015
Miners Left a Pollution Trail in the Great Lakes 6000 Years Ago
Scientists find evidence of ancient copper mining in polluted lake sediments from Isle Royale National Park.
Detecting Near-Field Tsunamis off the Coast of British Columbia
A Near-Field Tsunami Initiative for the Coast of British Columbia;
Port Alberni, British Columbia, 27–28 March 2014