To learn the science behind igloos, you must first understand how heat moves. According to LabXchange, heat can be transferred through convection (the movement of gas or fluid), conduction (direct ...

In December 1994, the United Nations proclaimed 1995–2004 the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples. In Latin America—where indigenous peoples comprise some 10 percent of the ...

However, the Inuit, the Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and subarctic regions, have mastered the art of surviving in these circumstances by building igloos for shelter. But how can a cold ...

Social scientists from Russia, the US and the Netherlands surveyed cooperation between the Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 oil consortiums and the sub-Arctic authorities and indigenous peoples.