Between Brazil’s Caatinga & Cerrado, communities profit from native fruits
People from the Caatinga, geraizeiros, veredeiros, Quilombolas and Indigenous communities in the northern region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, have been generating income by...
New technologies to map environmental crime in the Amazon Basin (commentary)
Environmental crimes like land grabbing, illegal deforestation, and poaching hinder climate action, deter investment in sustainable practices, and threaten biodiversity across major biomes worldwide.Despite...
Rainwater reserves a tenuous lifeline for Sumatran community amid punishing dry...
Kuala Selat village lies on the coast of Indragiri Hilir district on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.In the first half of the year, residents...
Research links deforestation in Cambodia to stunting in kids, anemia in...
Anton L. Delgado
Article by: Anton L. Delgado
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South Africa Today - Environment
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Night’s Guardians Unveiled: The Enigmatic World of Bats
Every year on April 17, the world turns its attention to the skies at dusk to celebrate Bat Appreciation Day. This special day is...
Johannesburg precinct sets standards for sustainability
As South Africa migrates to an off-grid economy, one mixed-use precinct is leading the way with its sustainability prowess. Melrose Arch has a thriving...
Don’t miss your chance to enter the 1 Mile leg of...
Swimmers keen to compete in an achievable, open water competition – while raising much-needed funds for charity – can book a spot on the...
New online tool is first to track funding to Indigenous, local...
The Path to Scale dashboard is the first online tool developed to track all funding for Indigenous peoples, local communities and Afro-descendant peoples’ forest...
A new and improved bird family tree shows rapid post-dinosaur evolution
An international team of scientists has created the largest and most detailed bird family tree ever, spanning 93 million years and representing 92% of...
In Java Sea, vigilantism and poverty rise as purse seine fishing...
Riyad Dafhi Rizki
Article by: Riyad Dafhi Rizki
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South Africa Today - Environment
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Unseen and unregulated: ‘Ghost’ roads carve up Asia-Pacific tropical forests
A new study indicates that significant networks of informal, unmapped and unregulated roads sprawl into forest-rich regions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.Slipping beneath...
Forests in Vietnam’s Central Highlands at risk as development projects take...
Lâm Đồng province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands plans to delist an area of forest a quarter the size of the country’s biggest city, Ho...
