The Pacific Islands are home to a wealth of traditional and cultural knowledge about climate adaptation, and it is a place where communities have long been enacting local solutions to combat the ...
An article I published last year in The Conversation and republished in Smithsonian Magazine about Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and western science touched a nerve among some readers. My article ...
Farmers Are Going Broke Amid Rising Gas Prices, While the Ag Secretary Profits Off Them As Hostilities Flare and Oil Prices Spike, U.S. Consumers Pay at the Pump The US Wants Minerals from South ...
A team of researchers in northern Australia have documented kites and falcons, “firehawks,” intentionally carrying burning sticks to spread fire: It is just one example of western science catching up ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Undisturbed peatlands act as carbon sinks and support biodiversity. Finland has drained 60% — more than 60,000 km2 (23,000 mi2) — of its peatlands, ...
Our knowledge of what the denizens of the animal kingdom are up to, especially when humans aren’t around, has steadily increased over the last 50 years. For example, we know now that animals use tools ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Knowledge of Caribbean ethnobotany has so far been limited and little comprehensive island- or region-wide inventories of Caribbean traditional ...