AI must be built with Indigenous Knowledges, not against them

As Australia marks 50 years of NAIDOC Week, honoring the world's oldest living culture, humanity's newest technology has yet ...

Conservation genomics faces growing calls to center Indigenous knowledge and data rights

Throughout human ecological history, we have played a variety of roles within ecosystems around the world. In this so-called ...
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How Indigenous Knowledge Reconnects Us All to Fire

“Our human relationship with fire goes back thousands and thousands of years,” says Damon Panek, wildland fires operations specialist for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and enrolled ...
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For Indigenous communities, protecting traditional knowledge means reimagining how it is preserved

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 ...
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Indigenous cultural practices are a climate solution, report finds

Indigenous lands are crucial for climate mitigation and resilience. Research shows their health is a direct result of ...
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Listening to the Land: How Indigenous Wisdom Is Helping Science Better Understand the Earth

Together, Indigenous knowledge and Western science offer a fuller understanding of the Earth. When they work side by side, ...
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After Thousands of Years, Western Science Is Slowly Catching Up to Indigenous Knowledge

New research about how birds use fire to get a broader food supply comes as no surprise to Indigenous people. Our knowledge of what the denizens of the animal kingdom are up to, especially when humans ...
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Traditional knowledge – an answer to the most pressing global problems?

Traditional knowledge is the foundation of indigenous peoples’ identities, cultural heritage, civilizations, livelihoods and coping strategies over several centuries. Its promotion, protection and ...
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Climate change is fueling wildfires around the world. Can indigenous knowledge help us manage them?

March 7, 2019 — Australia is a continent of flammable landscapes, filled with species adapted to fire. They are meant to burn. But they are not meant to burn like they have been lately. Each year, ...