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A graceful grey crested crane in the Eldoret-Iten watershed-Image Courtesy of TNC.

In Kenya, a water fund brings to light Indigenous cultural identity issues

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 12 Nov 2024
Paul Sang, a community leader of the Indigenous Ogiek community

A Kenya water fund partners with farmers to protect vital resources

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Nov 2024
Farmer Rachael Njeri collects soils samples on her land. She has started growing forage strips on her farm which prevent soil erosion and provide feed for her cattle. Image by CIAT/GeorginaSmith via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

In Kenya, a river restoration initiative pays for itself, and then some

Ochieng' Ogodo 29 Oct 2024
A village weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) at Lake Chivero, Harare.

Community-led wetland restoration may hold key to Harare’s water crisis

Aimee Gabay, Tatenda Chitagu 10 Oct 2024
The Los Pelambres mine.

In Chile, a copper mining project tainted by environmental damage sues 32 locals

Michael Lieberherr Pacheco 16 Sep 2024

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Fernanda Wenzel 5 Sep 2024

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

Tácita Muniz 16 Aug 2024
Seema Devi and other women from her village line up at the aquifer beneath the newly constructed field that doubles as a helipad.

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

Swati Thapa 9 Aug 2024
Harvard researchers Evan Routhier and Faiz Haque during the sample collections at dawn in the Paraná do Jacaré, in the Negro River in mid-September 2023.

Study to benchmark water quality finds key Amazon tributary in good shape

Kevin Damasio 15 Jul 2024
Activists demonstration in Kathmandu demanding water in Nepal's Terai.

Activists blame policy failures over climate change for Nepal Terai’s water crisis

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Jun 2024

All conservation is local: Interview with Angolan conservationist Kerllen Costa

Ryan Truscott 23 May 2024

Tracing Africa’s ‘fading biological fingerprints’ in Angola’s threatened forests

Ryan Truscott 23 May 2024

A forest restoration project brings birdsong back to Angola’s highest mountain

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2024
Segunda Huenchunao of the Vuelta del Río community near El Maitén. Image by Denali DeGraf.

Indigenous communities along Argentina’s Río Chubut mobilize to conserve waterway

Denali DeGraf 30 Apr 2024

Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2024
Muhammad Erlangga, a student, washes his clothes with rainwater.

Rainwater reserves a tenuous lifeline for Sumatran community amid punishing dry season

Suryadi 11 Apr 2024
A farmer in a rice field.

Beneath the surface, a toxic tide threatens Bangladesh’s water lifeline

Mahadi Al Hasnat 28 Mar 2024
Fakir Altaf Hussain, a fisher in Bangladesh, fishing in his pond.

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Sean Mowbray 6 Mar 2024
A boat carrying potable water from Macapá city, Amapá’s capital, by the government is stranded because of the siltation of the Amazon River in front of Livramento community.

Locals at the mouth of the Amazon River get a salty taste of climate change

Rodrigo Pedroso, Rudja Santos 26 Feb 2024
A man with a child.

Andes community-led conservation curbs more páramo loss than state-protected area: Study

Aimee Gabay 14 Feb 2024

In Mexico, Xalapa’s chronic water scarcity reflects a deepening national crisis

Amigzaday López Beltrán 23 Jan 2024

With half its surface water area lost, an Amazonian state runs dry

Amanda Magnani 26 Dec 2023

Quilombola communities take iron mine to U.K. court, alleging decade of damages

Sarah Brown 28 Nov 2023
A woman stands next to a well with water that tastes salty due to seawater interference.

Salty wells and lost land: Climate and erosion take their toll in Sulawesi

Agus Mawan 21 Nov 2023
wind farm

Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

Natalia Torres Garzón 9 Nov 2023

More action needed to protect freshwater ecosystems, report says

Maxwell Radwin 27 Oct 2023

Zika, dengue transmission expected to rise with climate change

Luís Patriani 9 Aug 2023

The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay

Andrew Johnson 1 Aug 2023

Chile government faces backlash after U-turn on copper mine

Boris van der Spek 20 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023
A youth leader demonstrates the impact of oil production on the local community.

As Shell, Eni quit Niger Delta, state-backed report describes legacy of carnage

Ashoka Mukpo 16 May 2023
Overhead shot of two men standing in shallow water, bent over repairing a large wooden canoe. Image by Bolaji Eiseke via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

For weary Niger Delta residents, shocking oil pollution report offers little hope

Ini Ekott 16 May 2023

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