NEWS COVERAGE

Rapid City Journal: PUC Approves $100 million solar project on Pine Ridge Reservation (FEB 2020)
Gephardt Daily: Native oysters make comeback, thrive again in Puget Sound (FEB 2020)
Grist: Indigenous tribes are at the forefront of climate change planning in the U.S. (FEB 2020)
Grist: With wildfires on the rise, indigenous fire management is poised to make a comeback (FEB 2020)
NAU News: Institute for Tribal Enviromental Professionals earns $3.2M grant to help tribes prepare for changing climate (FEB 2020)
Indian Country Today: Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians and Northwest tribal leaders stand together to protect the environment (FEB 2020)
National Public Radio: Climate Change Complicates Counting Some Alaska Native Villages For Census (FEB 2020)
KTVZ: Portland General Electric, Warm Springs tribes make $4.5 million in fish, wildlife, water project grants (FEB 2020)
Atlas Obscura: Indigenous People Are at the Forefront of Climate Change Planning in North America (FEB 2020)
Yale Environment 360: How Native Tribes Are Taking the Lead on Planning for Climate Change (FEB 2020)
Seven Days Vermont: The New Climate Action Film Festival Focuses on Solutions (JAN 2020)
Think Out Loud: Climate Change Policy with Indigenous Rights Attorney (JAN 2020)
KToo: Kivalina joins four Louisiana tribes in a formal complaint to the United Nations about coastal erosion (JAN 2020)
DL-Online: LaDuke: Indigenous fire management is the answer to raging wildfires (JAN 2020)
Canada's National Observer: Settler nations have failed as caretakers of nature. It's time for a new approach (JAN 2020)
Devex: Youth, indigenous voices shape climate conservation at Davos (JAN 2020)
Resilience: Our Ancestors Managed Fire Country for Millennia. We Yearn to Burn Once More (JAN 2020)
UN Environment Programme: The effecct of wildfires on sustainable development (JAN 2020)
BC Local News: Science Matters: Climate and Conservation (JAN 2020)
Sight Magazine: Amazon emissions lowest from Indigenous and protected lands, scientists say (JAN 2020)
Mongabay: Canada working towards new future for Indigenous-led conservation (JAN 2020)
Indian Country Today: First Nations Climate Initiative invites British Columbia First Nations input on using liquified natural gas to address global climate change and alleviate poverty (JAN 2020)
Indian Country Today: Tribes file complaint with UN saying climate change threatens existence (JAN 2020)
North Country Now News: DEC and Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe announce first-ever state-tribal partnership for Area of Concern on U.S. side of the Great Lakes (JAN 2020)
Now This News: Indigenous Activist Sherri Mitchell is Fighting for Environmental Justice (JAN 2020)
Design Week: Ushering in the lo-TEK age: designers can learn from indigenous practice (JAN 2020)
Curbed: The world's oldest design techniques might be the most radical (JAN 2020)
Salt Lake Tribune: Salt River Project seeks solar energy from bidders, including Navajo Nation (JAN 2020)
Nonprofit Quarterly: Building Economic Sovereignty: A Model for Renewable Energy Emerges in the Spokane Nation (JAN 2020)
PV Magazine: Lookout solar: 'We are the first in Indian country to develop a large-scale solar project' (JAN 2020)
Desert Sun: The Golden State should take a lesson from tribe's energy independence (JAN 2020)
The New Food Economy: Puget Sound tribes and scientists join forces to breed millions of clams (JAN 2020)
UC Davis Magazine: How Can Agriculture Be a Part of the Climate Solution? (JAN 2020)
The Press Democrat: Blue Lake Rancheria tribe's microgrid helped neighboring communities during PG&E shut-offs (JAN 2020)
The Hill (Changing America): How tribal wisdom can help climate science (JAN 2020)
Washington Post: Amid shut-off woes, a beacon of energy (JAN 2020)
K5 News: Pride of the PNW: Tribe's perspective on saving the Salish Sea (DEC 2019)
Char-Koosta News: CSKT looks at past, present, and future to address climate change (DEC 2019)
Indian Country Today: 'If Standing Rock changed the world ... we can change ourselves' (DEC 2019)
Grist: Young indigenous activists are leading on climate justice in Alaska (DEC 2019)
The Guardian: 'The forest is shedding tears': the women defending their Amazon homeland(DEC 2019)
Finance & Commerce: Renewables embraced by American Indian tribes (DEC 2019)
Casper Star Tribune: $100 million solar project slated for South Dakota reservation moves ahead (DEC 2019)
Moody County Enterprise: Santee Sioux Tribe starts solar power project (DEC 2019)
Nation of Change: Preparing native youth to Steward Ancestral Lands (DEC 2019)
E&E News: Alaska's Coastal Communities Face a Growing Climate Threat (DEC 2019)
Jefferson Public Radio: Oregon Senators Introduce Tribal Water Quality Bill (DEC 2019)
Rabble News: Climate change policy must include Indigenous ecological knowledge (DEC 2019)
Anchorage Daily News: Looking for climate chagne's big picture rural Alaska communities gather to compare notes (DEC 2019)
The Guardian: Arctic sea ice cover falls to 'alarming' low as temperatures rise (DEC 2019)
Puyallup News: Puyallup Tribal Council declares climate emergency (DEC 2019)
National Public Radio: As Climate Warnings Grow Dire, Energy Companies Face a 'New Frontier of Threats' (DEC 2019)
The Canadian Press: Inuit sharing ancient knowledge of ice, sea, and land with new app (DEC 2019)
University of Wisconsin News: Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts revived under Governor's task force (NOV 2019)
KCET: How Yurok and Karuk Traditions Sustain Delicate Balance of North Coast Species (NOV 2019)
News Ghana: As coal dwindles, Southwest tribal solar farms pump out power (NOV 2019)
The Guardian: 'Fire is Medicine': the tribes burning California forests to save them (NOV 2019)
Cronkite News: Historically left out of Western water talks, tribes intend to have greater influence in future (NOV 2019)
Climate Home News: Climate policy needs to reflect resilience of northern indigenous communities (NOV 2019)
NBC News: Saving Oklahoma's prairies, a vital weapon against climate change (NOV 2019)
Common Dreams: Preparing Native Youth to Steward Ancestral Lands (NOV 2019)
KCET: Sea Level Rising: Living with Water (Video) (NOV 2019)
WCAI: Native Land Conservancy Tackles Climate Change from Indigenous Perspective (NOV 2019)
The Journal: Navajo Nation water project advances (NOV 2019)
Native American Calling: Tribes and climate change (NOV 2019)
Ensia: Why Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge are Vital to Protecting Future Global Biodiversity (NOV 2019)
Edhat (Santa Barbara): EPA Recognizes Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians for Recycling Accomplishments (NOV 2019)
Truthout: Amid Blackout, a California Tribal Village Kept Lights On With Solar Energy (NOV 2019)
EPA News Release: EPA Awards 2019 Environmental Justice Small Grants for Projects to Passamaquoddy Tribe of Pleasant Point and Penobscot Indian Nation (NOV 2019)
New Security Beat: Permafrost Melt, Rising Seas, and Coastal Erosion Threaten Arctic Communities (NOV 2019)
Los Angeles Times: They've managed the forest forever. It's why they're key to the climate change fight (NOV 2019)
KCET: Traditional Boat Building Helps Native Community Hone Ecological Knowledge (NOV 2019)
National Public Radio (Utah): Merging Western Science With Native Knowledge To Combat Climate Change (NOV 2019)
CleanTechnica: Indigenous Peoples & Clean Energy (NOV 2019)
Phys.Org: Cities, tribes try a new environmental approach: Give nature rights (NOV 2019)
Juneau Empire: 'Vanguards' of climate change action, Southeast tribe shares ambitious plan(OCT 2019)
Sightline Institute: The Colville Tribes Combat Climate Change with Their Forests (OCT 2019)
Indian Country Today: What western states can learn from Native American wildfire management strategies (OCT 2019)
Indian Country Today: Alaska Federation of Natives declares climate emergency (OCT 2019)
Yes! Magazine: Colonization, Fire Suppression, and Indigenous Resurgence in the Face of Climate Change(OCT 2019)
Earther Gizmodo: Tribes Are Pushing Washington to Be the First State to Declare a Climate Emergency(OCT 2019)
Carlsbad Current Argus: New Mexico Native American tribe building solar farms amid state's renewable transition (OCT 2019)
Cision: First Nations Commit to Fight Climate Change Internationally, Launch Northwest Coast First Nations Collaborative Climate Initiative (OCT 2019)
National Public Radio: Pacific Northwest Tribes Face Climate Change With Agricultural Ancient Practice (OCT 2019)
Navajo Times: NTUA, Kayenta solar project chart path to the future (OCT 2019)
Penobscot Bay Pilot: State and federal agencies, Penobscot Indian Nation, business collaborate to raise salmon in Penobscot River (OCT 2019)
Crosscut: Washington's coastal tribes are working to escape rising sea levels. A bill in D.C. could help (OCT 2019)
Del Norte Triplicate: Yurok Tribe honored by UN (SEPT 2019)
Mother Jones: Some Indigenous Communities Have a New Way to Fight Climate Change: Give Personhood Rights to Nature (SEPT 2019)
KNAU Arizona Public Radio: Navajo Nation Opens Second Phase Of Kayenta Solar Project (SEPT 2019)
State of the Planet - Earth Institute: Just Climate Change Action: The Importance and Challenges of Centering Indigenous Wisdom & Perspectives (SEPT 2019)
Ashland Daily Press: Bad River Tribe embarks on $2M biggest-in-state solar project (SEPT 2019)
Times Standard: Yurok Tribe accepts UN Equator Prize for forest management (SEPT 2019)
High Country News: The Klamath River now has the legal rights of a person (SEPT 2019)
Public Radio International: With an Indigenous perspective, Anchorage seeks to adapt to climate change even if Alaska doesn't (SEPT 2019)
West Fargo Pioneer: 'Protecting our people and land': Standing Rock pipeline protests fuel momentum to sustainable future (SEPT 2019)
State of the Planet - Earth Institute: The Tribe that Brought a Damaged Shoreline Back to Life (SEPT 2019)
Maine Public: How Maine Tribes Are Adapting TO Climate Change, Threatening Thousands of Years Of Culture (SEPT 2019)
Gothamist: Long Island’s Shinnecock Fight Sea Level Rise By Using Nature Itself (SEPT 2019)
GoSkagit Local News: Samish tribe helping to study local kelp forests (SEPT 2019)
The Journal: Southern Ute Indian Tribe expands emergency water storage (SEPT 2019)
Indian Country Today: Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the Navajo Nation adopted by Navajo Nation Council (SEPT 2019)
Yale Climate Connections: How indigenous communities are working to protect the climate (SEPT 2019)
Eureka Times Standard: Karuk Tribe's climate plan uses fire as a prevention ally (SEPT 2019)
Eureka Times Standard: Blue Lake Rancheria receives EPA award for green energy leadership (SEPT 2019)
Phnom Penh Post: Climate change forcing Alaskans to hunt for new ways to survive (SEPT 2019)
Thomson Reuters Foundation News: FEATURE - Columbia's indigenous tribes share secrets to safeguard Amazon forest (SEPT 2019)
New Mexico Political Report: Tribes are leaders in wildlife management (SEPT 2019)
Common Dreams: Could Rights of Nature Laws Help Save Endangered Orcas? (AUG 2019)
The Revelator: California Tribe Hopes to Conquer Climate Woes - With Fire (AUG 2019)
Sierra: "Like Gold to Us": Native American Nations Struggle to Protect Wild Rice (AUG 2019)
Indian Country Today: New program gives remote Native American Tribes greater access to affordable electric vehicles (AUG 2019)
Lost Coast Outpost: Karuk Tribe Releases Climate Adaptation Plan Calling for More Prescribed Fires (AUG 2019)
Northern Arizona University: Combining western science, Indigenous knowledge offers new approach to help forests adapt to new conditions (AUG 2019)
Crosscut: 'A sacred day': Tribes help salmon swim in upper Columbia for first time since 1955 (AUG 2019)
Indianz: Mark Trahant: Indigenous knowledge to saving climate and land (AUG 2019)
Wisconsin Public Radio: Wisconsin Tribes Plan Green Updates With Help Of Department Of Energy Grants (AUG 2019)
Juneau Empire: Tlingit and Haida commissioned a climate change report for Southeast Alaska. Here's what they found. (AUG 2019)
Stuff: The legal threat and the big opportunity in Maori engagement on climate change response (AUG 2019)
The Daily Star: That river has rights: New strategy to protect the planet (AUG 2019)
Gizmodo: North Dakota's First Solar Farm Opens on Standing Rock Tribal Land (JUL 2019)
Climate Home News: 'There is no coming back from disappearing coastlines' (JUL 2019)
High Country News: The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe goes solar (JUL 2019)
Desert Sun: Cabazon and Twenty-Nine Palms tribes create air quality monitoring station in Indio (JUL 2019)
High Country News: How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and environmental justice (JUL 2019)
Indian Country Today: Over a dozen tribes selected for funding from Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund for new clean energy projects (JUL 2019)
The Christian Science Monitor: Will climate change force this Alaska village to relocate? (JUL 2019)
Mongabay: As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes (JUL 2019)
SitNews: Southeast Alaska tribal council develops climate change plan (JUN 2019)
Indian Country Today: Seven ways tribes are repairing the Salish Sea and Washington waterways (JUN 2019)
The Star: Indigenous peoples are leading in protecting our land (JUN 2019)
The Conversation: Tsilhqot'in Nation addressess climate disasters (JUN 2019)
Big Island Now: Moloka'i and Kaua'i-Based Hui Receive Equator Prize (JUN 2019)
Cronkite News: Native youth aim to hold U.S. accountable for climate change (JUN 2019)
Spokesman-Review: Solar celebration hosted by Spokane Tribe (MAY 2019)
Mongabay: How climate change could throw Maori culture off-balance (MAY 2019)
KTOO Public Media: Climate change looks different in Southeast Alaska. Here's how tribes are planning for that. (MAY 2019)
NIHB: Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Releases Open-Access Learning Modules to Help Tribes Assess Health and Adapt to Climate Change (MAY 2019)
KYUK: Quinhagak Begins To Look At Climate Change (MAY 2019)
New School Free Press: Indigenous Resistance Presses For Community Rights and Knowledge In Face of Climate Change (MAY 2019)
Bellevue Reporter: AG Ferguson announces historic Tribal Consent and Consultation policy (MAY 2019)
ABC 7 KRCR News: Yurok Tribe establishes 'Rights of the Klamath River' (MAY 2019)
HuffPost: Should Tribal Nations Use Treaties To Hold The Feds Accountable For Climate Change? (MAY 2019)
Next City: With an Indigenous Perspective, Anchorage Seeks to Adapt to Climate Change Even If Alaska Doesn't (MAY 2019)
Worldcrunch: Indigenous Peoples, First Victims of Climate Change (MAY 2019)
University of Alaska Fairbanks: Workshop helps coastal communities plan for climate change (MAY 2019)
Phys.org: Study examines impact of climate change on Louisiana's Houma tribe (MAY 2019)
Phys.org: Climate change forcing Alaskans to hunt for new ways to survive (MAY 2019)
Yahoo Finance: New Ecological Stewardship Report from First Nations Showcases Tribal Models of Culturally Appropriate and Values-Centered Development (APR 2019)
Washington Post: New EPA document tells communities to brace for climate change impacts (APR 2019)
New York Times: Can Humans Help Trees Outrun Climate Change? (APR 2019)
University of Kansas: Study examines how tribes have used treaty rights to successfully halt energy development on Indigenous lands (APR 2019)
Regulatory Review: Tribal Regulation of Single-Use Plastics (APR 2019)
The Daily (UW): Regenerating Keystone Species in Washington: Olympic Peninsula communities and climate change researchers are stronger together (APR 2019)
Virginia Mercury: Our ancestors' voices are begging us to stand up (APR 2019)
HuffPost: This One Idea Can Save Us From Climate Breakdown, Say Campaigners (APR 2019)
Newsweek: Obama Created a Climate Change Panel. Trump Disbanded It. They Regrouped. Here's Their Report (APR 2019)
Yes!: How Tribes Are Harnessing Cutting-Edge Data to Plan for Climate Change (MAR 2019)
Nation of Change: Pine Ridge Reservation Flooding Highlights Massive Implications of Climate Change on Native American Communities (MAR 2019)
Yale Climate Connections: Microgrid system saves tribes $200,000 a year (MAR 2019)
The Intercept: A Lakota Historian on What Climate Change Organizers Can Learn from Two Centuries of Indigenous Resistance (MAR 2019)
Vote Solar: Picuris Pueblo: Shining Light on New Mexico’s Community Solar Opportunity (FEB 2019)
CNN: European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, researchers say (FEB 2019)
Albuquerque Journal: Jemez Pueblo offers centuries of valuable fire lessons (DEC 2018)
Indian Country Today: Tribal people face disproportionate impact from climate change (NOV 2018)
University of Washington: New resources support tribes in preparing for climate change (NOV 2018)
Orion Magazine: The People's Forest (SEPT 2018)
Smithsonian: Prospects Are Looking Up for This Gulf Coast Tribe Relocating to Higher Ground (AUG 2018)
goSkagit: Tribe planning to restore a marsh along Swinomish Channel (AUG 2018)
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit: Blue Lake Rancheria Tribes Undertakes Innovative Action to Reduce the Causes of Climate Change (JUN 2018)
NIHB: Tribal Climate Champions: Spotlight on Blackfeet Nation (MAY 2018)
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit: The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Combine Mitigation with Capacity Building (MAR 2018)
NIHB: Tribal Climate Change Champions: Spotlight on the Village of Wainwright (JAN 2018)
Montana Public Radio: CSKT Pledges to Uphold Paris Climate Agreement (JAN 2018)
NIHB: Tribal Climate Champions: Spotlight on Swinomish Indian Tribal Community (DEC 2017)
AzCentral: Navajo Nations first solar project now producing enough electricity for about 13,000 homes (AUG 2017)
YES Magazine: Tribes Were the First Climate Change Refugees - and the First to Build Resilience Plans (AUG 2017)
Solar Power World: 8 Native American tribes going solar (AUG 2017)
Mother Jones: Indigenous People Plan to Honor Treaty that Trump Won't (JUL 2017)
The Guardian: Indigenous knowledge systems can help solve the problems of climate change (JUN 2017)
NCAI: Tribal Leaders Vote on Resolution Supporting the Paris Climate Agreement at NCAI Mid-Year (JUN 2017)
VOA: Native Americans Most at Risk From Impact of Climate Change (APR 2017)
Arizona State University: Climate Action in the Era of #NoDAPL: Following the Footsteps of the First Nations (MAR 2017)
HuffPost: Local Knowledge as a Model of Climate Change Mitigation (JAN 2017)
Phoenix Business Journal: Water plays a key role in economic development for Native American communities (SEPT 2016)
Aljazeera: The Choctaw Vs Climate Change: 'The earth is speaking' (JUN 2016)
Del Norte Triplicate: Tribe plans for climate change (FEB 2016)
NPR: Facing Rising Waters, A Native Tribe Takes its Plea to Paris Climate Talks (DEC 2015)
NOAA: Climate Change and Tribal Nations (NOV 2015)
CPN: Tribal Climate Change Plan Moves Forward with Federal Grant Fund (OCT 2015)
Northwest Treaty Tribes: Swinomish Tribe Studies Effect of Climate Change on Community Culture (FEB 2015)
Northeast Climate Adaption Science Center: Building Bridges Between Tribes and Climate Scientists (FEB 2015)
K5 News: Swinomish Tribe Blazing Trail in Preparing for Climate Change (SEPT 2014)
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