Sit-ins, seeds over seedlings, and fuel-saving cookstoves
Liberian communities affected by logging have staged a sit-in protest in front of the country’s ministry of finance, demanding unpaid royalties.Cookstoves and woodlots are...
Survey captures Bornean ecosystems and Indigenous lives around them
Members of Indigenous Penan and Kenyah communities in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sarawak spent two years surveying the forests of the Baram River...
They could be acidifying the ocean, study says
New research suggests that plastic could contribute to ocean acidification, especially in highly polluted coastal areas, through the release of organic chemical compounds and...
New study identifies mature forests on U.S. federal lands ripe for...
A new mapping study conducted by NGOs finds that older forests in the U.S. make up about 167 million acres, or 36%, of all...
The force is strong with space lasers helping researchers map the...
Since 2018, the GEDI mission has employed lasers on the International Space Station to measure the biomass density of forests on Earth.The information helps...
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...
