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A Q&A with Indigenous leader Nemonte Nenquimo who fought oil drilling in the Amazon — and won
Nemonte Nenquimo was just 6 years old when she heard the hum of a plane overhead bringing white people to her village in the Amazon. Nenquimo is Indigenous Waorami, and she has spent the last decade ...
The Musician Building the Great Native American Songbook
During the pandemic, he conceived and started the North American Indigenous Songbook, a project that aims to create a new ...
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Bison in Canada uncover 1,000-year-old sacred petroglyphs carved by Indigenous people
On a dry, windy day in August 2020, archeologist Ernie Walker stood at Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatchewan, gazing at the ...
New Ecosystems Atlas Launched At COP16 To Power Global Nature Goals
At COP16, mapping, monitoring and reporting on ecosystems was a focal point for governments and businesses. How will a new ...
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COP16 advances biodiversity protection despite ending before finance deal
The two-week conference was suspended before a crucial agreement on funding for a new global fund for nature. However, ...
What it's like to travel along the West Coast on a train
One of the most beautiful train journeys in the US, the Coast Starlight’s route unspools along the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles via Sacramento to Seattle. With miles of coastline, towering mountain ...
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COP16 delegates reach historic agreement to include Indigenous voices in conservation decisions
Delegates on Saturday agreed at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will ...
At UN summit, historic agreement to give Indigenous groups voice on nature conservation decisions
Indigenous delegations erupted into cheers and tears after the historic decision to create the subsidiary body was announced.
See How National Geographic’s ‘Endurance’ Intertwines Two Generations of the Greatest Antarctic Explorers
Exclusive: See a clip from the newest National Geographic documentary from Oscar-winning duo Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai ...
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A race to save Indigenous trails may change the face of archaeology
As construction of a pipeline nears, an effort to preserve an Indigenous trail in Canada tests whether heritage management can keep up with advances in archaeology.
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Watching Over a Fragile Desert From the Skies
A group of scientists looking for new ways to conduct studies that don’t harm the deserts of South America turned to ...
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From Confederate general to Cherokee heritage: Why returning the name Kuwohi to the Great Smoky Mountains matters
It’s not every day that the name of a mountain is restored to the one used by Indigenous ... the U.S. Board on Geographic ...