Airborne microplastics are another serious air pollution hazard
Airborne pollutants are a major risk factor to people in urban areas worldwide and they include a whole host of minute particles and toxins...
Swiss researchers show new ponds boost species at risk
Local authorities and nonprofits created hundreds of new ponds on farms and in forests in a Swiss state.Two decades of monitoring 12 amphibian species...
Innovating Finance for Climate Change as Policymakers Gather for the U.S.-...
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How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the...
As Brazil prepares to turn the page on the Bolsonaro government, finding sustainable and economically viable alternatives for the Amazon region remains challenging.Advocates tout...
Fears for academic freedom as Indonesia doubles down on scientists’ ban
Indonesian academics continue to question the government’s justification for banning five foreign scientists who called out the official narrative that the country’s orangutan populations...
Will FTX’s demise shift sinking Miami’s crypto embrace? (commentary)
Encouraged by a Bitcoin-friendly mayor, Miami has become a cryptocurrency capital, of sorts.This seems ironic because low-lying city is extremely vulnerable to sea level...
Haleon partners with WWF on water replenishment project in Western Cape
Haleon and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) today announced a new partnership to support water replenishment activities in the Western Cape’s catchment...
Mennonites deforest Peruvian Amazon, encroach on Indigenous lands
Chasing Deforestation is a series that explores the world’s most threatened forests through satellite data and reporters on the ground.Host Romi Castagnino travels to...
Peat on land and kelp at sea as Argentina protects tip...
Argentinian legislators recently approved a law to permanently protect the Mitre Peninsula at the tip of South America, which harbors vast peatlands and kelp...
Historic EU law against deforestation-linked imports ignores Brazil’s Cerrado
A day before the COP15 biodiversity summit began, the European Union agreed on the text of a law against imports of commodities like soy,...
Earth’s animals vital allies in CO2 storage
The idea of animating the carbon cycle (ACC) is relatively new. The concept champions the role that healthy populations of wild animals, both terrestrial...
Shark-fishing gear banned across much of Pacific in conservation ‘win’
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission has outlawed shark lines and wire leaders, both of which aid industrial-scale fishers in targeting sharks.Shark numbers...
