Norway and the Sámi people end a dispute over Europe's largest onshore wind farm – deal includes a future-oriented solution that safeguards reindeer farming rights ~enviro energy.renewable Article 961 words 14 votes
Sámi rights activists in Norway charged over protests against wind farm affecting reindeer herding ~enviro energy.renewable Article 370 words 13 votes
Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests ~humanities.history Link 24 votes
Indigenous Sámi activist set up camp outside the Norwegian parliament to protest against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by reindeer herders ~enviro energy.renewable Article 497 words 16 votes
Dozens of reindeer have been killed for crossing into Russia, as Norway fixes Arctic fence to stop the Sámi herds crossing the border ~enviro Article 451 words 7 votes
In Sweden reindeer herders say their animals are being affected by wind farms and other industry ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1415 words 4 votes
Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated £158,000 to cover legal costs of indigenous people in Sweden's Arctic as they battle a British mining company ~enviro Article 764 words 6 votes
Indigenous reindeer herders fear the drive towards a more sustainable economy is destroying their traditional way of life and identity in Sweden ~life Article 1582 words 11 votes
UN experts call for Sweden to scrap a planned iron ore mine – toxic waste and other contaminants would cause 'irreversible risks' to land used by the Sámi ~enviro pollution Article 514 words, published Nov 7 2017 2 votes
Herders in Lapland are struggling to locate thousands of reindeer that have run away after warm weather left the food they graze on covered by a layer of ice ~enviro climate change Article 792 words 5 votes
Norway's supreme court stripped two wind farms of their operating licences in a case that could boost the legal rights of the country's indigenous Sámi people ~enviro energy.renewable Article 404 words 7 votes
Sámi reindeer herders file lawsuit against Norway windfarm – indigenous communities say planned Øyfjellet turbines will interfere with migration paths ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1069 words 8 votes
Kulning – The often high-pitched herding calls of the Nordic fäbod culture; a group of labor songs developed out of needs rather than musical expression ~life Article 2385 words, published Sep 2 2020 9 votes
Welcome to Laufskálarétt – The autumn ritual of wild horse herding in Iceland's Kolbeinsdalur Valley ~life Article 641 words 9 votes
Sámi herders won back exclusive rights to hunting and fishing in their area of the Arctic – but that has led to heightened tensions between them and local Swedes ~life Article 63 words 4 votes
Sweden's climate solution is now the Sámi people's problem – winters are becoming warmer and climate change is making conditions for the reindeer unsafe ~enviro climate change Article 196 words 5 votes
In Sweden's Arctic, ice atop snow leaves reindeer starving ~enviro climate change Article 1055 words 3 votes
Iceland's massive Laufskálarétt pony party is a wild and windswept ride ~life Article 1152 words 4 votes
Wild horse groups clash with US Bureau of Land Management over new policies ~enviro conservation Article 2411 words 3 votes