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Farming in Myanmar

Will the Mekong and Salween pay the price of China’s energy transition?

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2024
Walhi's action to reject plans to build a nuclear power plant in West Kalimantan in front of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources

Indonesia civil society groups raise concerns over proposed Borneo nuclear reactor

Irfan Maulana 14 May 2024
Voters in West Bengal's Dinhata constituency, adjacent to Bangladesh, in 2016.

From polling stations to weather stations, the heat is on in India (commentary)

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 9 May 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024
Electric irrigation pump in a paddy field in Chuadanga, Bangladesh.

Rocky rollout for Bangladesh’s ambitious solar-powered irrigation plans

Abu Siddique 6 May 2024

Goldman Prize Winner Murrawah Johnson says First Nations must be at the forefront of creating change

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Apr 2024
A visual reconstruction of the February 19, 2023 incident in which a Hong Kong-flagged cargo vessel reportedly hit the Indian fishing boat, Ruby, 450 nautical miles away from Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of India.

Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, and more dangerous, waters

Imran Muzaffar, Aliya Bashir 23 Apr 2024
A whale shark in Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia.

Annual ocean conference raises $11.3b in pledges for marine conservation

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Apr 2024
A man from the Vedda community in Sri Lanka.

In largest ever study, Indigenous and local communities report the impacts of climate change

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Apr 2024
Guna homes on the coastline of Gardi Sugdub Island.

Panama delays promised relocation of sinking island community

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024
This land once belonged to the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people, who depended on the dense forest to hunt and fish.

International hesitancy to adopt environmental regulations threatens Indigenous rights

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024
Sargassum in Villa Clara province, Cuba.

Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

Marlowe Starling 16 Apr 2024
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

Justin Catanoso 2 Apr 2024
Drought in Bangladesh.

We need rapid response support for Indigenous peoples in the face of growing extreme weather events (commentary)

Joe Eisen 27 Mar 2024
Producing an AI chip requires 10-15 times more energy than making a standard chip.

Critics fear catastrophic energy crisis as AI is outsourced to Latin America

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 21 Mar 2024
A jaguar

Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Mar 2024
Agroforestry practices in action in Zambia.

Global conference to accelerate nature-based solutions: Q&A with Self Help Africa’s Patricia Wall

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Mar 2024
People during a severe heat wave that struck Brazil in late 2023.

Study on Brazilian heat wave deaths shows gender & racial disparities

Michael Esquer 6 Mar 2024

Global protected area policies spark conflicts with Mexico Indigenous groups

Aimee Gabay 5 Mar 2024
The LNG carrier Shahamah in Uraga Channel, Japan.

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2024
Mekong River

Hydropower in doubt as climate impacts Mekong Basin water availability

Carolyn Cowan 21 Feb 2024
A woman in Indonesia harvesting purun grass.

What principles should define natural climate solutions? A new study has some answers

Spoorthy Raman 20 Feb 2024

Climate change, extreme weather & conflict exacerbate global food crisis

Abdulkareem Mojeed, Priscilla Misiekaba-Kia, Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 19 Feb 2024

Can ‘degrowth’ solve our ecological, social & economic problems?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 30 Jan 2024
People holding wood pellets.

Study: Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health

Justin Catanoso 18 Jan 2024
Earth from the International Space Station, showing nighttime lights over Japan on November 6, 2017. The lights are concentrated around three of the country’s major cities: Tokyo (top), Nagoya (middle), and Osaka (bottom). Image courtesy of NASA.

‘Not the End of the World’ book assumptions & omissions spark debate

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Jan 2024
A coral reef and its residents in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Image ©Greg Asner/divephoto.org.

2023’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Ana Spalding, David Obura, Diva Amon, Minna Epps, Rhett Bennett, U. Rashid Sumaila 16 Jan 2024
Indigenous Borana women farmers and their children in Ethiopia.

‘Indigenous’ and ‘local’ shouldn’t be conflated: Q&A with Indigenous leader Sara Olsvig

Alec Luhn 4 Jan 2024
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Indigenous-led coalition calls for moratorium on terrestrial carbon trade

John Cannon 29 Dec 2023
Woodpecker Sitting in Tree in Forest

For forests, COP28 was better than expected, but worse than needed

Alec Luhn 28 Dec 2023
At least 228 freshwater dolphins have died in lakes connected to rivers, possibly killed by excess heat.

Detailed NASA analysis finds Earth and Amazon in deep climate trouble

Jenny Gonzales 21 Dec 2023
Attendees from Brazil pose during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed).

Little achieved for Indigenous groups at U.N. climate summit, delegates say

Dimitri Selibas 19 Dec 2023

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