“Trail of the Whispering Giants,” Sculptures by Peter Wolf Toth. Photo source: ©© Shmaktyc
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New England’s Native tribes, whose sustainable ways of farming, forestry, hunting and land and water management were devastated by European colonists four centuries ago, can help modern America adapt to climate change…
For the first a peer-reviewed journal has focused exclusively on climate change’s impacts on U.S. tribes and how they are responding to the changing environments.
The results show that tribes’ traditional ecological knowledge can play a key role in developing scientific solutions to adapt to the impacts. “The partnerships between tribal peoples and their non-tribal research allies give us a model for responsible and respectful international collaboration…”
Read Full Article, Science Daily
Coastal Tribes Convene to Tackle Climate Change, Nature Ocean Conservancy
All around the United States, coastal indigenous people are confronted with loss of food, loss of land, loss of a way of life due to global climate change. But they are working to adapt, as they’ve adapted to changing conditions for millennia…
Coastal Peoples Address Climate Change (Uploaded 05-15-2012)
