In new climate deal, Norway will pay Indonesia $56 million for...
This year, Norway will pay Indonesia $56 million for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.Both countries struck a new climate deal in September,...
American agroforestry accelerates with new funding announcements
“There is a windfall of federal money entering the agroforestry sector. After 30-plus years of work on agroforestry in the United States, the sector’s...
New Zealand convicts company of illegal trawling in high seas restricted...
In late August, a court in Aotearoa New Zealand convicted a subsidiary of one of the country’s major seafood companies of illegal trawling in...
Greenland’s ice sheets are being melted by both rising air and...
Scientists have been warning that as a result of warming atmospheric temperatures the ice sheets in Greenland are melting fast and that they might...
Who let the dogs out? Feral canines pose a threat to...
Dogs in Nepal enjoy a special status during the Tihar festival, but for the rest of the year are often overlooked or even abandoned.The...
In temperate Nepal, climate change paves way for tropical dengue fever
Nepal is experiencing its worst outbreak of dengue fever in recorded history, which health experts attribute in part to a changing climate.Wetter monsoons and...
From logging in Cameroon to cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire
Conservationists have flagged logging activity by a company in Cameroon that’s clearing forest near a national park in apparent breach of its permits.A campaign...
Shipping lane change could be sea change for Sri Lanka’s blue...
Conservationists have welcomed an announcement by MSC, the world’s biggest container shipping line, that its ships will detour around a key feeding and nursing...
What happens to rainbows as the planet’s climate changes?
Rain, cloud cover and other factors make rainbows possible. Climate impacts may mean more of them in some places, fewer in others.
Climate change and...
Insurance finds its place at the heart of international climate action
In the build-up to November’s COP27 in the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Germany is spearheading an agenda set to dominate the UN’s...
In Kenya and elsewhere saving mangroves can save the planet
In tropical and subtropical regions worldwide mangroves are important to environmental, social and economic resilience.
Protecting mangrove ecosystems may not be as much part of...
Deep dive uncovers previously unknown underwater ecosystem in Maldives
Scientists recently identified a previously undiscovered marine ecosystem in the waters around the Maldives, known as the “trapping zone,” about 500 meters (about 1,600...
