Undisturbed peatlands act as carbon sinks and support biodiversity. Finland has drained 60% — more than 60,000 km2 (23,000 mi2) — of its peatlands, releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the ...

Here are the morning's top stories for Monday, December 29th, 2025: The Karuk Tribe in Northern California is crafting an ...

In presenting traditional knowledge as a commodity, your News story “Tribes query motives of knowledge databases” (Nature 419, 866; 200210.1038/419866a) fails to emphasize the spiritual connection ...

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Deforestation and hunting continue to put Africa’s great apes at risk. National parks and other top down strategies have met with limited success. Many conservationists are trying alternative ...

Naidu emphasizes the importance of balancing modern science with traditional knowledge to enrich children's moral values and ...

The new National Intellectual Property Rights Policy advocates an aggressive, neo-liberal agenda of commodification of knowledge, and extends this to traditional knowledge as well. However, there is a ...

A long-awaited intellectual property treaty relating to 'Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge' was adopted on 24 May 2024at a diplomatic conference by WIPO ...

The IP Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has expressed support for a bill that would create a new category of protection for the traditional knowledge of indigenous groups The Traditional Property ...

Traditional medicine provides health care for more than half the world's population, but no one has really looked at how the environment affects traditional medicine. Studying 12 ethnic groups from ...