Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise
With heat waves becoming a significant struggle, especially in urban India, many people are moving to hill stations with work-from-home options, seeking respite in...
Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil
Sustainable forest management is an important strategy for generating income for local communities while keeping forests standing. Compliance with the label requires following strict...
Scaling up the Amazon’s many bioeconomies requires investment in nature, prosperity,...
Relentless climate change and biodiversity loss are pushing the world’s ecosystems to the brink of collapse. The planet may have already surpassed at least...
‘Polycrisis’ threatens planetary health; UN calls for innovative solutions
Environmental, technological and social challenges are colliding to create a global polycrisis. This confluence of issues is in turn placing increased pressure on the...
Disputed Manono lithium mining project in DRC sparks concern
LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo — In Manono, a town in the province of Tanganyika, in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of...
Indonesia palm oil lobby pushes 1 million hectares of new Sulawesi...
GORONTALO, Indonesia — A palm oil industry body and a state-owned company are proposing a vast new palm oil plan encompassing around 1 million...
In Brazil’s Pantanal, women find empowerment working with nature’s bounty
Deep in the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, where nature fights the intensifying impacts of climate change, women are also battling to make a...
Mining gold in the greenstone belt of Panamazonia
Greenstone belts are zones of metamorphic and volcanic rocks that occur within ancient (Archean) formations dominated by granite and gneiss. They are common to...
Indonesia, EU reconcile forest data ahead of new rules on deforestation-free...
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is working on improving and synchronizing its forest and supply chain data to comply with increasingly strict sustainability standards...
Peter Dykstra, award-winning environmental journalist, died at 67
Peter Dykstra dedicated his life to telling the untold stories of the environment. He did it in a way that was informative and clever...
Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a...
The Fraser Valley is home to some of Canada’s most important agricultural land, but 100 years ago this region was a huge glacial lake...
Birdsong rings out once again in Togo’s sacred forest of Titiyo
KARÈ, Togo — Under the hot sun of an April afternoon in northern Togo, we made our way by motorcycle across the impoverished prefecture...
