Verra suspends carbon credit projects following police raid in Brazil

Verra suspends carbon credit projects following police raid in Brazil

Verra, the largest registry of the voluntary carbon market, suspended projects targeted by the Federal Police in the Brazilian Amazon following an investigation by...
Deploying demolition for a ‘greener’ construction industry

Deploying demolition for a ‘greener’ construction industry

In acknowledgement of World Environment Day which was recently celebrated on 5 June, leading specialist Jet Demolition highlights the crucial role that demolition plays...
Ancient Mariners: The Plight of Sea Turtles

Ancient Mariners: The Plight of Sea Turtles

World Sea Turtle Day, celebrated annually on June 16th, is a day dedicated to raising awareness about the plight of sea turtles and the...
With an eye on EU’s new rules, scientists test ways to capture Africa’s forest loss

With an eye on EU’s new rules, scientists test ways to...

In a first, a team led by Tanzanian remote-sensing scientist Robert Masolele used high-resolution satellite data and deep-learning techniques to draw up a map...
BlueInvest Africa 2024 Invitation to investors to support the blue economy in Africa

BlueInvest Africa 2024 Invitation to investors to support the blue economy...

NAIROBI, Kenya, 13 June 2024 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- BlueInvest Africa 2024, a business event organised by the European Union in partnership with the Government...
Can iron fertilization of the oceans help solve the climate crisis? (commentary)

Can iron fertilization of the oceans help solve the climate crisis?...

In response to climate change, several carbon dioxide removal approaches involving the marine environment are being studied, with ocean iron fertilization being among those...
2 years after Bruno & Dom’s murders, Amazon region still rife with gangs

2 years after Bruno & Dom’s murders, Amazon region still rife...

Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips were shot to death on June 5, 2022, launching outcries and a wave of...
Black days for black kites in Bangladesh’s growing capital city

Black days for black kites in Bangladesh’s growing capital city

The sight of soaring black kites has become a rare sight in Dhaka city, which has become urbanized in an unplanned manner at the...
Launching the Nedbank Indalo Fund of R10 million to empower and grow sustainable enterprises

Launching the Nedbank Indalo Fund of R10 million to empower and...

As a purpose-led organisation that uses its financial expertise to do good, Nedbank is committed to supporting enterprises and initiatives that have the potential...
Javan rhino poacher gets 12 years in record sentence for wildlife crime in Indonesia

Javan rhino poacher gets 12 years in record sentence for wildlife...

A court in Indonesia has sentenced the head of a rhino poaching gang, Sunendi, to 12 years in jail for killing six rhinos, as...
Activists decry latest arrests of East African oil pipeline opponents

Activists decry latest arrests of East African oil pipeline opponents

Caroline Chebet Article by: Caroline Chebet This story first appeared on Mongabay South Africa Today - Environment This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0...
Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay

Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay

The Brazilian Federal Police arrested people and seized assets linked to some of the country’s largest carbon credit projects.According to the investigators, the group...