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A boat merchant in the canals of Bangkok, Thailand.

For urban poor in Global South, nature-based solutions have always been a way to get by

Spoorthy Raman 8 Jun 2023
Trees by the side of streets in Brooklyn, U.S.

Soil carbon in urban parks important in fighting climate change, study shows

Priscilla Misiekaba-Kia 5 Jun 2023

Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri

Basten Gokkon 4 May 2023

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2023

As Indonesia’s new capital takes shape, risks to wider Borneo come into focus

Basten Gokkon 8 Mar 2023
Air pollution in Kathmandu.

Another winter of discontent as Kathmandu braces for deadly air pollution

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Nov 2022

Mangroves and wildlife in Bornean bay at risk from Indonesia’s new capital

Basten Gokkon, Richaldo Hariandja 7 Oct 2022
Sakiah in her garden.

Urban farming in Indonesia addresses food needs and climate crisis

Sri Wahyuni 24 Aug 2022
A coal mine in Borneo.

Building Indonesia’s ‘green’ new capital could see coal use surge (analysis)

Chun Sheng Goh 2 Aug 2022
Adam, one of the residents of Rusunawa Marunda.

For residents of Jakarta’s port district, coal is the neighbor no one wants

Fadiyah Alaidrus 27 Jul 2022
Street in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

World’s worst air pollution slashes 7 years off life expectancy in Bangladesh

Mahadi Al Hasnat 16 Jun 2022
A mural depicting Indigenous faces stretches across a wall in the historic center of Manaus, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

History on the walls: Graffiti brings Manaus’s Indigenous roots to light

Ana Ionova 19 Apr 2022

In Kathmandu, a struggle for water amid worsening floods

Johan Augustin 17 Jan 2022

More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution shows

Luís Patriani 3 Jan 2022

In Indonesia’s ‘Dragon Village,’ customs and nature are at the center of life

Donny Iqbal 22 Nov 2021
Worker bees cluster on the honeycomb to eat and deposit nectar. Photo by Jude Coleman

Honey bees find food more easily in cities, thanks to abundant urban gardens

Jude Coleman 15 Nov 2021

In Indonesia, a coastal town rejects ‘metropolitan’ model for mangroves

Mahmud Ichi 11 Nov 2021

Studies debunk ‘nature is healing’ narrative from 2020 lockdowns

Jansen Baier 1 Sep 2021

As populations grow, how will thirsty cities survive their drier futures?

Petro Kotzé 18 Aug 2021

Scientists, communities battle against Philippine land reclamation project

Aprille Roselle Vince Juanillo 17 Aug 2021
Prolonged dry conditions have caused the worst drought in central and southern Brazil in almost a century. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on NASA's Landsat 8 captured an image of Lago das Brisas on the Paranaíba River on June 17, 2021.

Lessons from Brazil’s São Paulo droughts (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 30 Jul 2021

‘I am Indigenous, not pardo’: Push for self-declaration in Brazil’s census

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Rio de Janeiro, Indigenous people fight to undo centuries of erasure

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Boa Vista, Indigenous Brazilians retake their identity through education

Nayra Wladimila 29 Jun 2021

A startup deploys black soldier flies in the Philippines’ war on waste

Bong S. Sarmiento 25 Jun 2021

In Brazil’s most Indigenous city, prejudice and diversity go hand in hand

Ana Amelia Hamdan 22 Jun 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

Whale shark stranding points to silting of Indonesia’s Kendari Bay

Ian Morse 13 Jan 2021
Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

How to turn climate ambitions into reality: Q&A with Nigel Topping

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2021

The promise of ‘bird-friendly’ cities: Q&A with author Timothy Beatley

John Cannon 30 Nov 2020

Nature needs cities, and cities need nature (commentary)

Johan Robinson 15 Jun 2020

Indonesia’s new capital in the Bornean jungle on hold amid COVID-19 crisis

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2020