Indigenous leaders vowed Thursday to protect their Alaskan lands from fossil fuel exploitation after the Trump administration moved closer to allowing drilling along the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—a move the House just tried to block.”
The Gwich’in are protectors,” said Bernadette Demientieff, executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, “and we will not give up.”
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Some of the outlets participating in Covering Climate Now will share their climate coverage with one another, though this is by no means obligatory. Many outlets will publish or broadcast only stories they themselves produce. This decision is entirely up to each participating outlet. A full list of participating outlets follows.
FINALLY! Good: Covering Climate Now signs on over 170 news outlets – Columbia Journalism Review
Because the oceans cover three fifths of the globe, this correction implies that previous estimates of overall global warming have been too low. Moreover it was reported recently that in the one place where it was carefully measured, the underwater melting that is driving disintegration of ice sheets and glaciers is occurring far faster than predicted by theory—as much as two orders of magnitude faster—throwing current model projections of sea level rise further in doubt.
READ: Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change – Scientific American Blog Network
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“As somebody who lives here in Alaska — and I’ve reported all over the Arctic and I’ve been to the North Pole twice, 10 years apart — I have a pretty good idea of how bad [climate change] is, and I think most Americans have a pretty good idea of how bad it is. And I’m a lot more interested in what we’re doing about it, and I don’t think I’m alone,” Arnold said.
WHAT REPORTERS GET WRONG: “They focus on gloom and doom, desensitizing readers to the subject.”
From my research, I’ve learned that there’s a huge body of research that shows that this gloom-and-doom narrative in climate change reporting leads people to TUNE OUT. This sort of daily drip of stories — the warmest year on record; the least amount of ice in the Bering sea; a month ago it was the decline of outdoor ice skating rinks in Canada — it just reaches this point where people feel hopeless and overwhelmed. And when we feel that way, psychologists say, we tend to just avoid and deny, and tune out.”
GOOD READ: Covering climate change: What reporters get wrong and how to get it right
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US officials have warned that feral hogs heading across the border from Canada may pose a danger to the local environment.The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that sightings of the feral animals on the US-Canadian border have increased in recent years.
WHAT?: US officials warn of danger of feral hogs heading across the border from Canada
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nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, Tasha Hubbard, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
LISTEN: nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up by Tasha Hubbard – NFB
Native artist Cannupa Hanska Luger creates the ‘Every One” 2-ton art installation with two-inch clay beads created by hundreds of communities in the U.S. and Canada…
Cannupa Hanska Luger: Every One & Kali Spitzer: Sister will be available for viewing at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum until January 12th.
Listen: 
In 2012 a mass grave holding the bodies of 796 children was discovered in Tuam, Ireland on the former site of 
Source: 
…a Message from Chief Arvol Looking Horse
As these destructive developments continue all over the world, we will witness much more extinct animal, plant, and human nations, because of humankind’s misuse of power and their lack of understanding of the “balance of life.”
Not everyone will have the right to drink safe water. We fail to appreciate and honor our Sacred Sites, ripping out the minerals and gifts that lay underneath them as if Mother Earth were simply a resource, instead of the source of life itself.
TIP: On WordPress, go to the dashboard and under settings, go to the SHARING tab. Add the PINTEREST button to your blog. It will bring you many new readers… I love sharing your posts to Pinterest (and Twitter)… it helps visually if you use a featured (top) photo for each blog post! (I’m not on FB and don’t share there.)
Some 1,181 Indigenous women were killed or disappeared across the country from 1980 to 2012, according to a 2014 report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Indigenous advocates, and the report, say the number is likely far higher since so many deaths have gone unreported.
Published May 1, 2019
By LT
BREAKING NEWS: 
FORK IN THE ROAD
No records of the size of Native American populations before 1492 and the arrival of Europeans survive. A new study has found answers.
WOW: 
Trudell said it best in an interview I have in my new book 
(PHOTO: Iceland covered the story too) (Karen Vigneault, an enrolled tribal member of the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel and college and tribal librarian, has a face tattoo.)
Coming to Terms with Tragedy Through Art
