World Bank’s IFC must pay reparations to Honduran farmers, US court...
AGUÁN VALLEY, Honduras — In the years after 2018, during periods when the threats subsided and the paramilitary gunmen didn’t show up, nights in...
Despite court ruling, Yaqui water rights abuses ignored
YAQUI VALLEY, Mexico – More than a decade after a court ruling that an aqueduct violated the Yaqui tribe’s rights, the Mexican government has...
Community-led wetland restoration may hold key to Harare’s water crisis
HARARE — By 6 a.m. on Sunday, the line at a water well in Harare’s Budiriro suburb is already long. It snakes all the...
Forest fires rage across South America, devastating the Amazon and beyond
Wildfires have scorched millions of hectares of forest across South America so far this year. From Bolivia to Brazil, Peru to Argentina, the continent...
Combined effects of human activities increase risk to ecosystem services
The combined effects of humanity’s actions are making ecosystems less resistant to change, and threatening the vital ecosystem services humanity relies upon, according to...
WWF report offers glimmer of conservation hope — yet warns of...
With recent conservation efforts and the involvement of Indigenous peoples and local communities in managing protected areas, forest elephant populations are on the verge...
In the dark of the night, sponges help possum shrimp ‘smell’...
Scores of tiny shrimplike crustaceans make a nightly pilgrimage from underwater caves out to feed in the open sea. Bellies full, they find their...
Climate change is turning Antarctica green, but not in a good...
What’s new: A recent study reveals that the icy Antarctic Peninsula, the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica, has experienced a nearly twelve-fold increase in...
UMK calls for industry to focus on greater participation in South...
Investment into infrastructure and development, particularly rurally, remains critical to the reset of South African infrastructure, said United Manganese of Kalahari (UMK) chief executive...
Tensions flare as Indonesian islanders resist China solar development
BATAM, Indonesia — A major Chinese solar panel manufacturing development on an Indonesian island saw renewed clashes in September between a company allegedly controlled...
Nigerian anti-corruption body partners with EIA to combat wildlife crime
Nigeria’s anti-corruption body is partnering with the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) to address wildlife trafficking. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences...
News of rich mineral reserves in Burundi forest reserve sparks debate
The announcement of tin and coltan deposits potentially worth tens of billions of dollars “discovered” beneath a forest reserve has taken Burundi by storm,...



















