Will we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of...
In the 2020 science-fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, author Kim Stanley Robinson imagines a near-future climate catastrophe in which a deadly heat...
African minds gather to regreen the continent – and everyone is...
On 17 September 2024, Africa will present a sustainable path forward to combat the climate crisis and land degradation, safeguard livelihoods and promote self-determination...
Indigenous communities sidelined for Suriname’s new carbon credit program, critics say
Local and Indigenous communities in Suriname are speaking out about a new carbon credit trading scheme that they say the government pushed through without...
Meet the little-known African tortoise with a hatchback for a shell
Evolution thought of everything long before we did. Take the case of the forest hinge-back tortoise (Kinixys erosa) found in the Congo Basin, as well as parts...
In Bali, water temple priests guide a sustainable rice production system
UBUD, Indonesia — Inside the small, open-air stone temple in the center of the Lotudunduh rice fields, a farmer wraps a sarong and sash...
Biodiversity’s Tower of Babel: The confusion & disorientation of Convention on...
Underlying parables of biblical metaphors are often only dimly remembered. The name Babel comes from the Hebrew “to confuse,” בָּלַל (bālal). The tower so...
Nepal’s buffalo-kills-tiger story reveals deeper pains in compensation system
KATHMANDU — Yes, you read the headline right: On Aug. 22, in a rare incident, a tethered domestic buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) killed an endangered...
China accepts U.N. recommendations to improve environmental conflicts in Latin America
It’s been a little over a decade since China launched its Belt and Road Initiative, a global program to improve relations with Latin America...
Time to highlight South Asia’s less-studied vultures: Interview with Krishna Bhusal
KATHMANDU — The story of South Asia’s vultures has been a tragedy played out at warp speed, especially for griffon vultures, characterized by a...
As southern African freshwater fish & fisheries struggle, collaboration is key...
Scientists, communities and government officials from five African countries agree that the freshwater fish stocks in the Kavango and Zambezi River systems are in...
Logging done sustainably doesn’t have to harm ecosystem services, study finds
Researchers have found that low-intensity logging of a tropical forest has no negative impacts on key ecosystem services such as the carbon storage and...
How a fun women’s gathering led to small wildcat conservation in...
Ida Auris Arango remembers the day in 2023 when she stumbled upon the Andean cat and its young on the mountainside. While shepherding her...
