Indonesian project shows how climate funding can — and should —...
Three of Indonesia’s largest Indigenous and civil society organizations have launched a new initiative that will be first to channel climate funds directly to...
Marine Protected Areas: Together we can do more
Johannesburg, 25 May23: Earlier this month over 60 delegates from various sectors, including private finance, insurance, government, community leaders, multilateral organisations, and Marine Protected...
An Asian grass helps Mexican farmers build resilience to climate change
A longtime ingredient in fragrances, vetiver is becoming an ally for farmers facing the impacts of climate change.Planting vetiver grass in tropical and subtropical...
Overlooked and underfoot, mosses play a mighty role for climate and...
Mosses cover a China-size area of the globe and have a significant impact on ecosystems and climate change, according to a new study.Researchers conducted...
Indonesian audit finds taxes unpaid on 22 million acres of oil...
An Indonesian government audit finds that taxes are not paid on some 9 million hectares (22.2 million acres) — an area three times the...
U.S. traders flouting sanctions on buying Myanmar teak, report says
A new report shows that U.S.-based timber traders continued to import thousands of metric tons of Myanmar timber, despite sanctions imposed following the February...
Kyalami residents fed up with illegal dumping launch cleanup campaign
On Saturday, an army of dedicated kyalami residents took a stand against the illegal dumping culture that is slowly dilapidating their neighborhood. Concerned about...
Cycling oil palm biomass waste back into the soil can boost...
Oil palm growers in Indonesia can boost soil health and reduce their fertilizer use by adding waste biomass back to the soil, a new...
Brazil faces $317 billion in annual losses to Amazon deforestation
Brazil could face losses of $317 billion per year as well as biodiversity depletion and severe social setbacks for millions of people if Amazon...
Conservation must acknowledge animal sentience (commentary)
“A conservation ethic that fails to account for animal sentience runs the risk of causing serious harms to those that are undeniably capable of...
A Twitter bot tracks meat production in the Brazilian Amazon
An online tool developed last year by the NGO Global Witness aims to monitor and expose deforestation linked to the indirect supply chain of...
3 million hectares of Colombian Amazon deforested for illegal pasture: Study
One of the main challenges that comes with analyzing satellite images is establishing whether a change in land use has taken place legally or...
