Insights from bicultural research can enhance practical applications from a palaeotsunami database to land-use decisions, according to a new review. Indigenous knowledge, including oral histories, ...

The Whanganui River is officially a living being and legal person. Māori leaders explain how Indigenous knowledge and ...

Len Necefer, Ph.D., is the CEO and Founder of NativesOutdoors. Len has worked for the U.S. Department of Energy, the NASA Glenn Research Center, and most recently the University of Arizona. His ...

As a weed choked a New Zealand lake, a tribe found a surprising solution in a centuries-old tool, adding to a pitched debate over how Indigenous knowledge can complement conventional science. By Pete ...

Awareness that much of the world’s biodiversity exists in lands and seas stewarded by Indigenous people and local communities has led scientists to reconsider the value of the knowledge systems that ...

For more than 30 years, the United Nations has helped support research positions at universities to delve into the most pressing issues facing humanity: climate change, sustainable development, peace, ...

Indigenous populations globally possess ancient, intergenerational celestial knowledge, including "dark constellations," deeply integrated with their land, culture, and practical life, which is ...

Joseph Bennett receives funding from The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Environment and Climate Change Canada, and the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Paul A. Smith ...

For Bobby Schaeffer, observing the weather in Kotzebue is a crucial daily task. In the continuously changing Arctic, the ocean freezes later in recent years, exposing coastal communities to storms.

At the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore at WIPO in Geneva, the South African Minister for Science and ...

Native groups in Belize, Australia and Hawaii are at the center of conservation. Scientists are increasingly turning to Indigenous communities for marine conservation, leaning toward generational ...