Poor indoor air on tribal lands can cause a range of respiratory illnesses, including viral infections. Here’s how people are fixing the problem while preserving traditional ways.
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Portrayals of Native Americans and COVID-19 often ignore responses rooted in tribal sovereignty.
The government should stop trying to tinker at the edges. Instead it should strengthen internal university administration through shared governance.
Tribal lands are hot spots for COVID-19 infections and deaths. Racism is one of the reasons.
The current threat to university autonomy has been triggered by a myriad of financial and administrative challenges
The commercialisation of universities in Kenya poses a serious threat to academic freedom.
Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this ‘superfood’ save Paraguay’s tropical forests, too?
The boreal forest is being reshaped by wildfire. As climate change intensifies wildfire activity, the boreal forest will likely become a carbon source.
Kenya’s once financially healthy universities are in financial straits.
Staff wages are a huge challenge facing the survival of Kenya’s public universities, but strikes are another.
Kenya has moved to phase out part-time lecturers in a bid to improve the quality of university education.
Kenya’s university budgets are a closed book – and this lack of transparency is bad for institutions and the country as a whole.
Kenya’s authorities are trying to deal with declining standards at the country’s public and private universities. This will require a strengthened regulatory framework and hard work from institutions.
Kenya’s universities have become hotbeds of ethnic tension and conflict. This has affected everything from staff appointments to broader institutional governance.
Slideshows, when designed right, can be a useful part of online instruction. But they shouldn’t be the main, or the only, method of instruction.
From the look of it, the millennials appear to be very comfortable with technology. But are they as immune to the effects of digital distraction as some might assume – especially in the classroom?
As the effects of climate change rapidly alter communities, economies and natural systems, the need to advance new solutions to what may be the most pressing biological challenge of our time has never…
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation, Northern Arizona University
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Assistant Professor of Management at the W.A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University
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Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Northern Arizona University
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Associate Professor, School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University
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Professor and Chair, Southwestern Environmental Science and Policy, Northern Arizona University
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Research Affiliate , Northern Arizona University
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Professor of Research, Foundations & Higher Education, Northern Arizona University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology & Department Chair, Northern Arizona University
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Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Social Science Community Engagement Lab, Northern Arizona University
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Assistant Research Professor of Global Change Ecology, Northern Arizona University
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Professor of Ecosystem Ecology, Northern Arizona University
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Director, First Year Learning Initiative at University College and Professor of Psychological Sciences, Northern Arizona University
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Professor, School of Communication, Northern Arizona University
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Graduate student, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Northern Arizona University
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Assistant Research Professor, Northern Arizona University
