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Seeking the ‘humanity–wetland’ balance: Interview with Zimbabwean activist Jimmy Mahachi

River culture is the rhythmic pulse of the Bengal Delta (commentary)

Thai farmers demand action to restore ecosystems, compensate for invasive fish

Bangladesh must move from ‘fast fashion’ to ‘defashion’ to improve human & ecological wellbeing (commentary)

Grassroots efforts sprout up to protect Central America’s Trifinio watershed

Andes glacier melt threatens Amazon’s rivers & intensifies droughts

Controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision threatens the country’s inland wetlands with new development, study says

Western Kenya’s most important water-capturing forest is disappearing, satellites show

Desalination plants proposed for Texas Gulf Coast spur broad opposition

Rappahannock Tribe first in US to enshrine rights of nature into constitution

Organizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests

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

A Kenya water fund partners with farmers to protect vital resources

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

Inaugural Planetary Health Check finds ocean acidification on the brink

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Crop fields make way for profitable orchards in Bangladesh, imperiling food security

Government inaction leaves Nepal without strategy to tackle invasive species

As Amazonian rivers recede under drought, manatees are left exposed to poaching

Eucalyptus expansion worsens droughts and fires in Brazil’s Cerrado, conservationists say

As southern African freshwater fish & fisheries struggle, collaboration is key (commentary)

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

As waterbodies lose oxygen, are we breaching a potential planetary boundary?

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

Cerrado’s current drought impossible without human-caused climate change: Study

In Sonora, communities fight mining to defend their water

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

Salmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients

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