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Indigenous farmer Leopoldo Lebuna weeds his lowland farm

In Philippines, climate change tests Indigenous farming like never before

Keith Anthony Fabro 4 Aug 2023
A group of UM6P scientists take a visiting forestry scientist from Penn State University on a tour of the experimental farm in Ben Guerir.

Morocco rolls out a phosphorous-fueled plan to heal soils across Africa

Marlowe Starling 31 Jul 2023
A farmer in Colombia checks her coffee bushes.

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2023
The Manobo Houses float along the waterways of Lake Panlabuhan in the Agusan Marsh.

Philippines’ largest freshwater wetland and Indigenous livelihoods face multiple threats

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 Jul 2023
A farmer in a paddy field.

Vietnamese rice farmers go high-tech to anticipate a low-water future

Sonal Gupta | Victoria Mann | JJ Mazzucotelli | Michelle Gomez | Hafsa Maqsood 24 Jul 2023
Breadfruit trees produce large, potato-like fruits.

Breadfruit: A starchy, delicious climate and biodiversity solution

Claudia Geib 6 Jul 2023

Can Spain keep the rising sea from washing away a critical delta?

Nathan Siegel 5 Jul 2023

Climate emergency may channel millions in resources toward corn-based ethanol in the Amazon

Fábio Bispo/O Joio e o Trigo 3 Jul 2023
A fisherman carries a basketful of hilsa.

Climate change, human pressures push Bangladesh’s ‘national fish’ into decline

Abu Siddique 19 Jun 2023
Mopane worms on mopane leaves.

Southern African caterpillar that feeds millions may be next climate casualty

Ryan Truscott 15 Jun 2023
Tana is his field.

Africa’s land and forest restoration initiative gathers pace in Malawi

Charles Mpaka 7 Jun 2023

In Senegal, rice intensification helps farmers grow more with less

Noah Tobias 30 May 2023
A farmer plants rice in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Deforestation linked to less rainfall, study shows; El Niño could make it worse

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 May 2023
A girl with avocados

In Indonesia, clouds form over East Java’s promising band of avocado growers

Asad Asnawi 16 May 2023
Elder women members of the Kiday Farmers Community Association' proudly show a variety of heirloom seeds they store to support organic farmers in their riverside hamlet in Quezon province.

Organic farming, and community spirit, buoy a typhoon-battered Philippine town

Keith Anthony Fabro 15 May 2023
A man in the western Chuadanga district splashes water on his face from an irrigation pump to get relief from the heat.

‘Alarming’ heat wave threatens Bangladesh’s people and their food supply

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 28 Apr 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023
Farmers winnowing harvested rice.

Amid changing climate, Bangladesh farming groups conserve indigenous rice seeds

Abu Siddique 3 Apr 2023
A fisher at Kenya's Lake Victoria.

Fish kills leave Kenya’s Lake Victoria farmers at a loss, seeking answers

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 24 Mar 2023
On 22 June 2022 the farmers protest started in the Netherlands. Tractors from all over the country drove to Stroe. This picture was taken along the A27 near Houten, just in front of the Lunetten interchange. Image by Frank Magdelyns from Pixabay.

For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&A with Lennart Fuchs & Marc Buiter

Peter Speetjens 21 Mar 2023
A coffee farmer carries saplings.

Companies eye ‘carbon insetting’ as winning climate solution, but critics are wary

Ian Morse 13 Mar 2023
Fishermen at dawn heading out onto Lake Turkana to try their luck for the day. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

Herders turn to fishing in the desert amid severe drought, putting pressure on fish population

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Traditional fishing boats on a Lombok beach.

On Lombok, rising sea levels force fishers into different jobs

Falahi Mubarok 20 Feb 2023

Pollution and climate change set stage for rise in antimicrobial resistance

John Cannon 8 Feb 2023
Residents of Hanging Site.

In Sierra Leone’s fishing villages, a reality check for climate aid

Ashoka Mukpo 15 Dec 2022
Reginaldo Oliveira.

In Brazil’s agricultural heartland, rivers run dry as monoculture advances

Ana Ionova 14 Dec 2022
Millet harvest in the Nyando climate-smart villages.

Breaking free from photosynthesis: Will high-tech foods save nature?

Sue Branford 11 Nov 2022
Trials of drought tolerant beans in Malawi.

With climate reparations finally on the table at COP27, what now?

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Nov 2022
Farmers with their crop.

Agroecology can feed Africa and tackle climate change — with enough funding

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Nov 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

Pandemic dip was just a blip as global emissions rebound, report shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Sep 2022
A moray eel among corals

‘Mind-blowing’ marine heat waves put Mediterranean ecosystems at grave risk

John Cannon 13 Sep 2022
Seaweeds are harvested and dried.

Seaweed an increasingly fragile lifeline for Philippine farmers

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Sep 2022

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