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There are other criteria of scientific verifiability, inscribed in the culture of different indigenous nations. We took as a study case the "Muisca Astronomical Observatory" in Colombia, and other recent ethnological research on the world's main cosmologies. We hold the idea that the environmental sciences, based on those criteria, can improve their capacity as an institutional agency since they allow trans-scalar sciences to be constituted in coordination with decolonial objectives of knowledge. Other verifiability criteria and their dialogues with decolonial thinking are actually possible within the framework of a materialistic philosophy of vitalist approach. In the light of the above, it is argued that the prolepsis and operability of scientific (institutionalized) propositions are safe criteria for assessing "validity" (at subglobal scales) and "truth" of the world (on a global scale), especially when it comes to explaining/intervening their environmental problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]