On July 16, 1979 the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock uranium mill disposal pond ruptured through its dam and contaminated the Puerco River in New Mexico and parts of Navajo Country.
The Sami people—an indigenous people of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia—lead a series of peaceful protests against the building of a dam on the Alta River in Norway.
The exploitation of the cheap manual labor provided by Adivasis and the appropriation of their indigenous environmental knowledge has enabled and equally influenced environmental governance at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary since colonial times.
Explores how the relationship of Adivasis to their surroundings was gradually reshaped under colonial rule in Bengal, leading to increased sedentarization of Adivasis through the extension of cultivation.
In 1948 the Giant Mine became a major producer of gold and eventually arsenic trioxide, presenting major pollution problems for local First Nations and a long term legacy issue as 237,000 tons of arsenic remains buried in underground chambers.
This article examines how activists on both sides of the debate about the construction of dams along the Colorado River used images of Native Americans to argue their position.
This article considers how the cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé, an indigenous tribe located in the Brazilian Amazon, interacts with the pressures of the modern era.
This article looks at the controversial issue of forest conservation in the Southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
The article shows how the Sami of northern Norway are creating new openings and opportunities for more localized management systems based on local environmental knowledge.
2012—Time for Change sees the Mayan Calendar’s prediction of imminent doom as an opportunity for transformation.
