# indigenous communities (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover indigenous communities. Page: Feed: --- ## [From seeds to survival: A farmer’s story from Tajikistan](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-20/from-seeds-to-survival-a-farmers-story-from-darshay-village-tajikistan/) _2026-08-20 · Umed Qurbonbekov · resilience_ For a farming community that depends on seasonal consistency, climate change creates uncertainty at every stage of production. ## [How an ecosystem restoration community is regenerating water cycles to mitigate forest fires in Portugal](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-20/how-an-ecosystem-restoration-community-is-regenerating-the-water-cycle-to-mitigate-forest-fires-in-central-portugal/) _2026-08-20 · Nupur Jain · resilience_ Rewetting and restoring wetlands, building small dams, and restoring streams create landscape-level discontinuities that interrupt how fire propagates by putting water back into the land rather than letting it run off. EcoAtivo is one organisation putting this directly into practice. ## [Researchers are finding evidence that fish feel pain. What does that mean for the ethics of seafood?](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-20/researchers-are-finding-evidence-that-fish-feel-pain-what-does-that-mean-for-the-ethics-of-seafood/) _2026-08-20 · Wasseem Emam · resilience_ Fish are often treated as reflex-bound creatures, bodies without minds. Yet, study by study, from anatomy labs to behavioural experiments, mounting evidence to the contrary has emerged. ## [Crazy Town: Episode 130. Finding Crazy Town Part 2: Simplifying Complexity](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-19/crazy-town-episode-130-simplifying-complexity/) _2026-08-19 · Asher Miller · resilience_ What if the greatest strength of modern civilization—its incredible complexity—is also its greatest weakness? ## [‘Activism is not just about political change, it is about spiritual alignment’: Interview with activist Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-19/activism-is-not-just-about-political-change-it-is-about-spiritual-alignment-interview-with-activist-catherine-murupaenga-ikenn/) _2026-08-19 · Priscilla Claeys · resilience_ Activist Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn discusses food sovereignty, Māori leadership and challenging colonial frameworks in an interview with Agroecology Now! ## [The Tainterian dynamic and the advent of the ‘Great Simplification’ – Part Two](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-19/the-tainterian-dynamic-and-the-advent-of-the-great-simplification-part-two/) _2026-08-19 · Paul Arbair · resilience_ Investigating how and why complex societies or civilizations have risen and fallen in human history, anthropologist and historian Joseph Tainter uncovered a dynamic that can help us make sense of our present situation and future prospects. ## [The Tainterian dynamic and the advent of the ‘Great Simplification’ – Part One](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-18/the-tainterian-dynamic-and-the-advent-of-the-great-simplification-part-one/) _2026-08-18 · Paul Arbair · resilience_ Signs abound that global techno-industrial society is cracking at the seams under the accumulated weight of its own complexity, and that it might now be on the cusp of entering a period of ‘Great Simplification’. ## [A magnificent internationale: Building a just world with nature](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-18/a-magnificent-internationale-building-a-just-world-with-nature/) _2026-08-18 · Bertrand Liaudet · resilience_ The magnificent Internationale created by Nature is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new world empire or to build the city in which Nature and humanity dwell together. ## [The UN’s ‘Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty’ cannot survive reality](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-18/the-uns-roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-cannot-survive-reality/) _2026-08-18 · William E. Rees · resilience_ In the circumstances, humane, socially just Roadmaps that show the world community theoretical alternatives, however brilliantly conceived, are destined merely to reveal inviting roads that cannot be taken. ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/eamNRY9TR8He) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [How climate change intensified Europe’s record-breaking June heat](https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-08-17/how-climate-change-intensified-europes-record-breaking-june-heat/) _2026-08-17 · Cecilia Keating · resilience_ For the second time in two months, Europe has been hit by a record-breaking heatwave. The extreme conditions come on the 50th anniversary of a historic 1976 heatwave in the UK, prompting many comparisons between the two events by scientists and the media.