Mu Landscapes

02/11/2020

'What is our ethical relationship to the world outside ourselves?'

Author Barry Lopez offers insights into the ways indigenous knowledge can help lead us out of our environmental — and spiritual — crisis.

30/04/2019

In Australia, psychological tools developed with Aboriginal people can also support farmers whose land is suffering the effects of climate change.

20/02/2019

On Lake Muddus, the world shines all white. The sky is separated from the ice only by a pine forest. It is late January. After the real cold spell of mid-January, the temperature keeps at –20 degrees Centigrade. The polar night is over, and the rays of a rising sun begin to color the sky.

25/12/2018

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Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries. The rest of the world is finally listening in

17/12/2018

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Reconciliation between Canada and First Nations is playing out not only in legislatures and courtrooms but in labs across the country.

14/12/2018

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Tony Rinaudo’s regeneration technique, developed in west Africa 30 years ago, has helped bring back forest over 6m hectares

21/11/2018

Our current, dominant forms of conservation are not equal to the task of responding to these new realities; we need urgent reforms.

15/11/2018

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Waterways are being restored in Inari, Finland, by combining science with Sámi traditional knowledge. The aim is to restore the water resources of the area and the movement patterns of fish into their natural states. According to experts, there is a need for similar projects all around the Sámi Ar...

10/05/2018

It seems logical to grant protection to nature by treating it as a living entity. And the law might be catching up

10/05/2018

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When you think of man's best friend, sharks, dingos and lions, don't immediately spring to mind. But new research has shown that predators - once instinctively feared by humans - have a number of important functions and play a key role in supporting our ecosystems. CHRISTOPHER O'BRYAN, EVE McDONALD-...

27/06/2017

Inspiring example

In the small town of Riverton at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island is Robert and Robyn Guyton’s amazing 23-year-old food forest. The 2-acre property h...