Maine Public

To help boost Indigenous enrollment in science majors, UMaine Machias is adding Native perspectives

The number of Native Americans enrolling in college has declined by 40% in the last decade and a half. The disparities are ...
WBUR

Indigenous science to be focus at UMass Amherst center on climate change research

Indigenous science is the focus of a new $30 million environmental research center housed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Center For Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBRIKS) ...

An Indigenous Leader and a Science Communicator Honoured by INRS

CNW/ - Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) will recognize two outstanding individuals by awarding honorary ...

Indigenous youth incorporate culture into projects at Canada-Wide Science Fair

Indigenous students from across Canada were at the University of Regina all week, and most of them were competing in their first science fair. According to organizers, more than 25 Indigenous students ...
The Scientist

Medical Interventions Rapidly Change Isolated Indigenous Microbiomes

An anti-parasitic medical program in Amazonian communities shifted villagers’ microbiomes toward an urban profile, ...
Mongabay

Indigenous knowledge and science team up to triple a caribou herd

A wildlife recovery effort in British Columbia, Canada, has successfully increased a caribou herd from 38 individuals to 113 in less than a decade, according to a new study. Two First Nations ...
Science Friday

An Indigenous Scientist On Purging Colonialist Practices From Science

According to the National Science Foundation, in 2017, 71.1 % of doctoral degrees in the sciences were awarded to whites in comparison to the 0.4 % awarded to Indigenous students. Thus the ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Partnerships, not parachutes: How Indigenous knowledge and citizen science can enhance climate research

Climate data has a completeness problem. If you’re looking for ancient carbon dioxide measurements, ice core data can give you that. If you have an interest in prehistoric ecology, the fossil record ...
Modern Farmer

What Agriculture Can Learn From Indigenous Science

The past year has seen record-breaking heat waves, towns swallowed by floods and droughts that have drained water reservoirs dry. But amid voices in mainstream science warning of rising global ...
National Catholic Reporter

Indigenous wisdom and science can work together to solve crises, pope says

Pope Francis shakes hands with an Indigenous woman during an audience with people taking part in a workshop jointly sponsored by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and of Social Sciences on the ...
mlive

The Indigenous exhibit that Trump failed to stop

A mixed-reality exhibit celebrating Ohlone culture has launched at University of California Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of ...
Science Friday

Indigenous Nations Are Fighting To Take Back Their Data

Illustration by Guadalupe “Mario” Valencia, for Science Friday. You might’ve heard this phrase before: data equals power. Because when you have data, you can decide how they’re used and who gets to ...