All around the world natural disasters continue to wreak havoc as emergency managers strive for new ways to reduce the damage through sound mitigation practices. At the same time, several indigenous ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon. Although racial-justice initiatives around the world have sparked a renewed focus on the need to recruit and retain more people from minority ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series that includes live interviews with some of Canada’s top social sciences and humanities academics. It is co-sponsored by The Conversation and the Social ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. Released in late 2022, the 46-page guidance document ...

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 ...

Lara A. Jacobs, editor; Oregon State University Press, 2025; 440 pages; $39.95. In recent years, in Alaska and elsewhere, Indigenous knowledge has found respect and inclusion in scientific research ...

In this episode, we dive deep into the fascinating world of Indigenous knowledge and storytelling. Welcome back to Sovereign Innovations with your host, Cheyenne Bearfoot! In this episode, we dive ...

November 13, 2019 — To reach the U’wa villages in the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia, you must cross the plain, head into the mountains, abandon cars, take to footpaths, ford rivers and then ...

Officials at the Department of the Interior are pushing to finalize a new "implementation handbook" to guide agency decision makers on how to "apply indigenous knowledge" in their day-to-day work. The ...

There are an estimated 476 million indigenous peoples in the world, living across 90 countries. They speak an overwhelming majority of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages and represent 5,000 ...