IPBES report calls for accounting of nature’s diverse values
A recent assessment from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services calls for the integration of the variety of ways humans value...
Q&A with Chukki Nanjundaswamy of Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre
The Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre in southern India is one of dozens of education hubs around the world providing a space for farmer-to-farmer training...
Sea life may downsize with ocean warming — bringing challenging impacts
A new model predicts that marine microbes could shrink by up to 30% in the future due to climate change, impacting bigger organisms that...
Water-stressed Bangladesh looks to recharge its fast-depleting aquifers
Water management authorities in Bangladesh have drawn up a plan to recharge, or refill, the aquifers serving Dhaka and other areas, which are being...
Indigenous activists in Borneo claim win as logging firm removes equipment...
After NGOs captured satellite and drone imagery they said showed timber firm Samling operating in deep forest and culturally sensitive sites in the Malaysian...
In Japanese waters, a newly described anemone lives on the back...
A newly described anemone species has been found off the coast of Japan and appears to live exclusively on the shells of one hermit...
Violence persists in Amazon region where Pereira and Phillips were killed
Armed illegal gold miners on July 15 threatened government rangers near the site where British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira...
Why aren’t we talking about it? (commentary)
The pressure for both local level management and international conservation efforts foster a “scale mismatch,” in which the levels of governance of these two...
Q&A with deep-sea explorer Dawn Wright
On July 12, oceanographer and geographer Dawn Wright descended 10,919 meters (35,823 feet) below the surface of the ocean to the deepest known part...
Pacific Island countries are facing more marine heatwaves
The frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves have been on the increase in Fiji and Samoa.
When we think of heatwaves we tend to think...
Building Indonesia’s ‘green’ new capital could see coal use surge (analysis)
Indonesia is planning to construct a new capital city, known as Nusantara, in the Bornean province of East Kalimantan.Authorities promote Nusantara as a “green...
Elevated homesteads give hope to flood-hit communities in Bangladesh
Increasingly severe flooding in Bangladesh threatens the homes and livelihoods of some 10 million people who live on river islands known as chars.The rate...
