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Workers at BRAC's plastic project sort out single-use plastics.

New ventures set out to tackle the plastic choking Bangladesh’s ECAs

Abu Siddique 2 Dec 2025
The Quilapilún solar energy plant, a joint project by Chile and China in Colina, Chile. Image by AP Photo/Esteban Felix.

Critical minerals dropped from final text at COP30

Aimee Gabay 2 Dec 2025
Maasai people in the Nashulai Maasai Conservancy. Image © Marianne Nord, courtesy of Nashulai Maasai Conservancy.

In Kenya, Maasai private landowners come together to protect wildlife corridors

Elodie Toto 1 Dec 2025

In Guyana and Suriname, offshore oil and environmental interests clash

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Dec 2025

New agreement aims to streamline Amazon Rainforest protection efforts

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Nov 2025
A woman lights her stove to prepare lunch, in the village of Zorro, Burkina Faso.

Fossil fuel failure eclipses Africa’s wins at COP30

David Akana 26 Nov 2025
Fledglings of Lesser Adjutant in the Parsa-Koshi Complex. Image by Hem Bahadur Katuwal.

Bird diversity drops in human-dominated habitats, Nepal study suggests

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Nov 2025
Farmers at Yangambi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Fighting for food sovereignty at COP30: Interview with GRAIN’s Ange-David Baïmey

Yannick Kenné 20 Nov 2025
Solar panels in an arid part of Sudan.

‘The perfect ingredients’: WRI Africa deputy director shares vision for the continent’s energy transition

John Cannon 19 Nov 2025
Banner image: Adult male peregrine (F. p. brookei) in Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. Peregrine falcons almost disappeared across North America and Europe in the early 1900s because of DDT and other pesticides.

Scientists slam Canada-US proposal to lower trade protections for peregrine falcons

Spoorthy Raman 18 Nov 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

As Indonesia turns COP30 into carbon market showcase, critics warn of ‘hot air’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Nov 2025

‘Africa can become a green leader’: Interview with Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa

Elodie Toto 12 Nov 2025

Coal-dependent South Africa struggles to make just energy transition real

Anna Weekes 11 Nov 2025
Technicians in Zimbabwe inspect solar panels. Image © UNDP Zimbabwe.

What does the just energy transition mean for Africa?

John Cannon 10 Nov 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Indonesia pledges energy transition — but the country’s new NDC says otherwise

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2025

In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone

Madalitso Wills Kateta 30 Oct 2025
Annapurna mountains.

Ousted Nepal gov’t cleared easier path for controversial cable cars, documents show

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Oct 2025
Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation leader Fikile Ntshangase was killed in 2020. Image courtesy of Lunga Bhengu/groundWork.

‘We are just waiting to die’: Mining activists targeted as South Africa delays energy transition

Anna Weekes 23 Oct 2025

An Indigenous women-led revolution fights fires in Brazil’s Cerrado

Mariana Rosetti, Paola Churchill 23 Oct 2025

South African sharks threatened by fisheries, weak enforcement

Victoria Schneider 20 Oct 2025

Unique diving paradise threatened by mine reopening

Juan Maza 18 Oct 2025

Nations delay vote on shipping decarbonization rules after fierce US resistance

Edward Carver 17 Oct 2025

Indonesia falls short in bid to increase its share of southern bluefin tuna catch

Edward Carver 16 Oct 2025
Illoulofin Solar Power Station

Benin puts solar power at the heart of its energy policy

Didier Hubert Madafimè 16 Oct 2025

IUCN upholds long-tailed macaques’ endangered status after complaint

Gerald Flynn 15 Oct 2025
Whānganui River

Pioneering policies and rights-of-nature rules win World Future Policy Awards

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Oct 2025
A Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta)

First assessment of UNESCO sites finds widespread climate impacts

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Oct 2025
A Waorani indigenous youth prepares to use his blowpipe in Yasuni National Park in the Upper Napo Valley of the Western Amazon region in Ecuador, Saturday Aug. 21, 2010. Yasuni National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1989 and home to the Tagaeri-Taromenane and Waorani indigenous communities, holds close to 1 billion barrels of crude. Image by AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa.

Indigenous voices shape UNESCO’s new 10-year plan for biosphere reserves

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Oct 2025
Indigenous guide at Sani Isla in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

COP26 pledge to support Indigenous & local forest tenure was just met. What was learned?

Aimee Gabay 9 Oct 2025
The Laura Mærsk arrives at port in Copenhagen in September 2023 for a name-giving ceremony.

What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero?

Edward Carver 8 Oct 2025
A worker of a sustainable solutions company performs maintenance work on a solar panel on a roof on the island of Sumba in Indonesia.

With red tape, canceled rebates, Indonesia risks missing Chinese renewables investment

Jeff Hutton 6 Oct 2025
Amadiba Crisis Committee Protest at Mzamba Beach. Image courtesy of the Amadiba Crisis Committee.

Indigenous consent isn’t a ‘box-ticking’ exercise: Voices from the land (commentary)

Sinegugu Zukulu 6 Oct 2025

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