REDD+ Africa: looking past Trump’s U.N. proposed climate budget cuts
Donald Trump has proposed reducing U.S. foreign aid and U.N. support for climate change programs to zero, with possible repercussions in Africa.
Estuaries News
Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves
USULUTAN PROVINCE, El Salvador – “Without the mangroves, we couldn’t live here,” says José Antonio Hernández. “We wouldn’t have any water.” He is standing on a rare dry patch of…
Rio Olympic organizers fail to meet all environmental goals
hen Rio de Janeiro won the bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games — set to begin on August 5th — the Brazilian government committed itself to cleaning up…
New Rio Olympic golf course harmed environment, say critics
fter more than a 100-year hiatus, the sport of golf will again be played at the Summer Olympics — though that celebratory event has been tarnished by an environmental controversy,…
Lake Maracaibo: an oil development sacrifice zone dying from neglect
n July 1914 oil drilling activities were formally initiated in the state of Zulia, in western Venezuela, with the opening of the historic Zumaque I oil well on the east…
Special series
Endangered environmentalists
- Yasuni indigenous peoples’ fight for survival depicted in new documentary
- Leading ivory trade investigator slain in Tanzania
- 2016 was even deadlier for environmental and indigenous activists than 2015
Global forest reporting network
- Communities struggle to save Sabah’s shrinking mangroves
- Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’
- Monkey rediscovered in Brazil after 80 years
Amazon infrastructure
- Temer uses controversial deforestation data in speech to UN
- Amazon dam defeats Brazil’s environment agency (commentary)
- Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin
Asian rhinos
- Can the Javan rhino be saved before disaster strikes?
- Javan rhinos face human incursions into their last remaining habitat
- India and Nepal team up to rescue flooded rhinos
