Undisturbed peatlands act as carbon sinks and support biodiversity. Finland has drained 60% — more than 60,000 km2 (23,000 mi2) — of its peatlands, releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the ...

Kenya will host its first international investment conference and trade fair on indigenous knowledge intellectual assets in April. The event to be held in Murang'a County, seeks to transform ...

Brazil recently passed a law to recognize açaí, a berry endemic to the Amazon, as a national fruit, citing concerns about ...

“Our human relationship with fire goes back thousands and thousands of years,” says Damon Panek, wildland fires operations specialist for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and enrolled ...

A new global study published with the defining authorship of HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and ...

This story is part of Fix’s Mentorship Issue exploring the unique ways climate leaders found their calling, and how new approaches to mentorship are upending old power structures. Check out the full ...

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Native study of the natural world is exceptionally deep and nuanced at understanding and protecting ecosystems. Take a swim through Clear Lake, North America’s oldest (and California’s largest) ...

The Karuk Tribe in Northern California is crafting an environmental policy that unites traditional knowledge with more contemporary environmental sciences–pushing back against years of bias dismissing ...

1. Introduction: The Growing Importance of Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge -- 2. Africa -- 3. Latin America-Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile -- 4. Amazonia -- 5 ...