“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 ...

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Traditional knowledge and harvesting practices may help limit the buildup of contaminants such as mercury in people who live ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rangelands and the pastoralists who rely on them are an overlooked and understudied part of global conservation. Tunga Ulambayar, country director for the Zoological Society of London’s Mongolia ...

David Jefferson is the Secretary of the Knowledge of Oceania Society. Jesse Pirini is the President of the Knowledge of Oceania Society. Jessica C Lai does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...