Alpinism awarded Unesco Intangible Heritage status
Alpinism has officially been added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) list. Its candidacy had been jointly submitted by France, Italy and Switzerland.
11 December is International Mountain Day
The 2019 edition of International Mountain Day is “Mountains matter for youth”, highlighting the need to bring young people back to highland areas to take care of their cultural and natural resources.
As climate change alters agriculture, forest food could be the answer. India’s indigenous Kondhs prove it
India’s indigenous Kondh community has relied on forest food for millennia. As climate change reduces agricultural yields, this source of nutrition could be crucial for food security.
10 places to visit before they disappear
Here are the 10 most beautiful places in the world to visit before human blindness wipes them out.
Ice cream, a short history. From ancient Roman snow to love with a heart of cream
What was the first ice cream flavour? Who invented the ice cream cone? Let’s answer these and other questions by revisiting the facts and history of this irresistible delicacy.
The status of the world’s native peoples: what was said at the UN Forum on Indigenous Issues
1,000 speakers met at the Forum on Indigenous Issues to discuss native people’s condition ten years after the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Defund DAPL, why investors are pulling millions out of the Dakota Access Pipeline
Many investors have urged banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline to either support rerouting the pipeline or divesting from it. Now the hot potato is in their hands.
Colombia’s U’wa tribe, two decades of resistance to oil exploitation in the Amazon
Atossa Soltani, founder of Amazon Watch – NGO that protects the rainforest and advances the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin – tells of her experience fighting alongside Colombia’s U’wa people to resist oil and gas exploitation.
7 consequences of Donald Trump’s Muslim ban
Among other things, the immigration ban signed by President Trump threatens the melting pot underlying the culture of the United States.
What it means to live in a world with CO2 concentrations above 400 ppm
The planet has passed the 400 ppm threshold, permanently. It has already happened before, but we could never see a month with CO2 concentrations below the safe level of 350 ppm.