Mongabay on MSN11h
Over half of Pacific atoll forests are coconut palm plantations — Study
By Kristine Sabillo More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study ...
Pacific island diet may be the secret to 'slashing cholesterol and losing weight'
A team of scientists have developed a hybrid diet known as the NiMe, which takes inspiration from the traditional diet of ...
The Virgin Islands Daily News20h
The Taíno tribe of the Caribbean making a comeback across the U.S.
It’s been 514 years since the Taíno people, one of the major indigenous groups in the pre-Columbian Caribbean, first rebelled against the Spanish Conquistadors. By that time, the Spanish had ...
Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre21h
Australians have much to learn about Pacific migration
A new survey finds the Australian public are largely happy for Pacific migration policy settings to stay the same, say Leng, ...
Smithsonian Magazine15h
For Centuries, Indigenous People Lived in These Desert Canyons. Now, New Technology Reveals Extraordinary Details About This Sacred Site
In the Arizona desert, researchers are uncovering extraordinary details about the peoples who have inhabited this land since ...
Repatriation to Indigenous groups is more than law, it’s human rights − an archaeologist describes the day that lesson hit home
As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab ...
Bureau of Meteorology19h
Indigenous Weather Knowledge
Nyoongar country spans from Leeman in the northwest to beyond Cape Arid in the southeast, in the southwest of Australia. The Nyoongar calendar includes six seasons.