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‘Water always wins,’ so why are we fighting it?

Mike DiGirolamo 12 Jul 2022
A woman in Satkhira washes dishes in a pond.

For women on Bangladesh’s coast, rising seas pose a reproductive health dilemma

Jesmin Papri 8 Jul 2022
A huge swarm of locusts devours corn

High tech early warning system could curb next South African locust swarms

Anna Weekes 29 Jun 2022
Farmers processing the rice next to paddy fields in Bangladesh.

Climate change puts Bangladeshi farmers’ reliance on rice varieties to the test

Abu Siddique 23 Jun 2022
Framers tending to their agricultural land in Uzbekistan.

Beyond boundaries: Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point

Petro Kotzé 21 Jun 2022

‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

John Cannon 14 Jun 2022
Botanist Keith Steunenberg stands next to a thicket.

Can wonder plant spekboom really bring smiles back to sad South African towns?

Anna Weekes 7 Jun 2022
Farmer Elizabeth Kamphale explains the agroecology methods she uses to farm orange maize in the village of Kamala in Malawi's Dedza district.

A return to agroecology traditions points the way forward for Malawi’s farmers

Charles Mpaka 3 Jun 2022
Mangroves planted in Satkhira district.

Bangladeshi coastal communities plant mangroves as a shield against cyclones

Abu Siddique 3 Jun 2022
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022

EU Parliament’s Environment Committee urges scale back of biomass burning

Justin Catanoso 18 May 2022
A pack of hyenas in Tanzania.

Spotted hyenas adapt to climate change in famed Tanzanian park

Ryan Truscott 18 May 2022
Sea level rise and storms threaten the palm-fringed shores of a village on Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, 2010. Photo courtesy of Edvard Hviding.

From victims to claimants: Mobilizing the IPCC Assessment for climate justice (commentary)

Jennifer E. Telesca, Vandhna Kumar 17 May 2022

Geoengineering Earth’s climate future: Straight talk with Wake Smith

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 2022
Michel Pimbert, founder and director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University. Image courtesy of Coventry University.

Food for all: Q&A with Michel Pimbert of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

Anna Lappé 11 May 2022
Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022

Beyond CO2, tropical forests a ‘cool’ solution to climate crisis, study finds

John Cannon 22 Apr 2022
(Banner Image: An aerial view of the flooding at the Air Force Base in Durban. Image courtesy of South African National Defence Force.)

South Africa declares national emergency as flood toll crosses 440

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Apr 2022
A power plant under construction in Bangladesh.

Sluggish growth of renewables threatens Bangladesh’s clean-energy goals

Abu Siddique 19 Apr 2022
Rice planting. Image via MASIPAG.

From traditional practice to top climate solution, agroecology gets growing attention

Anna Lappé 13 Apr 2022
A landslide near Manizales in the Central Andes. In 2011, a landslide broke a pipe supplying water from the cloud forests and paramos into city, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without access to water for 10 days.

In landslide-prone Colombia, forests can serve as an inexpensive shield

Gianluca Cerullo 13 Apr 2022

Small farmers take a stand for one of Dakar’s last urban woodlands

Francesco De Augustinis 13 Apr 2022
Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 2022

‘A huge mistake’: Concerns rise as deep-sea mining negotiations progress

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2022
The new Future Seeds facility holds the world's largest collection of bean varieties. Photo via The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT / Juan Pablo Marin

Climate change causes a run on banks, for crop genes (commentary)

Marcela Santaella 5 Apr 2022

IPCC report calls for ‘immediate and deep’ carbon cuts to slow climate change

John Cannon 5 Apr 2022

Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland

Jane Palmer 31 Mar 2022
A truck with Oilpalm fruits is entering Fajar Harapan Palm Oil Mill.

EU response to palm oil is opportunity, not threat (commentary)

Andre Barahamin 29 Mar 2022

As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Peter Schmidt, Giovanna Kuele 28 Mar 2022
Bikini Atoll coral diversity

Ships sunk in nuclear tests host diverse corals, study says. But do we need them?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Mar 2022

Analysis: Elite power struggle sees Vietnam abandon coal, but leaves collateral damage

David E. Brown 15 Mar 2022

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