Local and Indigenous communities can now track deforestation, monitor biodiversity and respond to threats on their territories quickly with tools like drones, GPS apps and satellite imagery. These are ...

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 ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Joseph Lee, an author and freelance journalist, is a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe from Martha’s Vineyard in ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

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 ...

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 ...

James Stinson receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), York University's Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (CIRC) Fund, and the Peterborough K. M ...

Dr Peita Richards is the recipient of an Office of National Intelligence, National Intelligence Postdoctoral Grant (project number 202308) funded by the Australian Government. Bronwyn Carlson does not ...

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A study at the University of Zurich in Switzerland shows that a large proportion of existing medicinal plant knowledge is linked to threatened Indigenous languages. In a regional study on the Amazon, ...