Brazil faces two contrasting legacies for the Amazon in October’s elections
Polls indicate that Brazil’s presidential election in October will go to a runoff between incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da...
For lightning-prone communities in Bangladesh, new warning system may not be...
An average of four people a week are killed by lightning in Bangladesh, and the problem is expected to get worse as climate change...
West Africa’s fisher women are experts at coping with job insecurity
All along West Africa’s coastline, women play a vital role in the fisheries sector as processors, traders and distributors.
All along West Africa’s coastline, women play a...
Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality
As fishing pressure has increased on Lake Tanganyika, its level has also been rising, inundating shoreline communities.Sedimentation as a result of farming, infrastructure projects...
2023 Pre-campaign Poll Puts Peter Obi In 87.9% Lead; Tinubu, 8.5%;...
LAGOS, Nigeria, 12th September 2022 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Labour Party presidential candidate in the Nigeria’s 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has scored 87.9 per...
Is having fewer kids the answer to the climate question?
The human population is expected to reach 8 billion literally any day now, and nearly 10 billion people some time this century.With the planet...
Trial of palm oil tycoon Surya Darmadi begins in Jakarta
Surya Darmadi returned to Indonesia on Aug. 15 and was arrested by awaiting officers at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.Indonesia’s Attorney General’s Office has estimated...
An Indonesian rock star shines his light on mangroves, urban farming...
Andi Fadly Arifuddin is known to millions of Indonesians as Fadly, the vocalist of alt-rock band Padi, which formed in 1996 and relaunched as...
The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24...
Analysis presented in a new report finds the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region lost around 4% its mangrove forests between 1996 and 2020.The WIO...
Second oil company exits Arctic amid fierce Indigenous opposition, energy squeeze
Knik Arm Services is the second oil company to cancel its oil and gas lease for a tract of land in the largest wildlife...
Wildlife lover and artist records 5 decades of change on iconic...
As a youngster in the 1960s, Janet Marsh spent hours beside England’s Itchen River while her father fished, closely observing the teeming life of...
Mapping of Indigenous lands ramps up in Indonesia — without official...
An independent initiative has mapped 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of Indigenous lands in Indonesia since March, bringing the total since it started...
