The mine leak was bad. The DRC and Angola’s response are...
In July 2021, an Angolan diamond mine leaked large amounts of polluted water into the Kasai River Basin which stretches across Angola and the...
Will the Uinta Basin Railway derail U.S. climate change efforts? (commentary)
The Uinta Basin is home to a diverse set of creatures from endangered black-footed ferrets to plants that cannot be found anywhere else in...
The Amazon will reach tipping point if current trend of deforestation...
A report by the Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG) claims that 26% of Amazon forests have transformed irreversibly and show high levels...
Nord Stream methane leak is smaller than previously feared
“This is not good news, but not a climate bomb,” an expert said.
When the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines were raptured in...
As Indonesia paints rosy picture for orangutans, scientists ask: Where’s the...
Foreign scientists who were apparently banned for questioning the Indonesian government’s claim that orangutans are widely increasing in number insist none of the available...
Labor groups seek to build on Indonesian palm oil court win...
Last year, Indonesia’s Supreme Court ordered one of the world’s largest palm oil companies to make severance payments worth tens of thousands of dollars,...
Maasai villages lose important court case as wildlife game reserve trudges...
The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) has ruled in favor of the Tanzanian government after a five-year legal battle between Maasai communities and...
How Sri Lanka’s forced organic transition crippled its tea industry
In April 2021, then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa abruptly banned imports of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, in an attempt to preserve Sri Lanka’s fast-depleting foreign...
Symbiotic partnerships with algae help corals weather thermal stress
Corals worldwide are facing various threats, the most pressing of which is warming water temperatures, which have increased by nearly 1 degree Celsius in...
New species described from DRC after mistaken identity
Scientists recently identified a new species of air-breathing catfish, Clarias monsembulai, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Salonga National Park — the first new...
Can commodification resolve a world water crisis?
In 2018, a trader listed water on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and then in 2020 introduced a futures market so consumers can factor the...
adidas offers free kerbside recycling to residents living along Cape Town...
Global sports brand adidas is calling on residents living in suburbs along the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon route to register this week for two...
