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Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Daniel Camargos, Emmanuelle Picaud, Simone Fant 29 Apr 2025
A flamingo in Salar de Uyuni, southwestern Bolivia.

Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects

Carla Ruas 17 Apr 2025

Lithium Triangle mining may strain water sources more than expected, study says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Apr 2025
irrigation field

Groundwater overuse puts Brazil’s river flow at risk, study finds

Sarah Brown 3 Apr 2025
In Tishimale Village, Konso, Belachew and 147 other farmers use flood farming techniques to grow crops three times a year. Without these methods to adapt to the drought and the shortage of rain, it would be impossible to grow sustainably in this dry region. Image by Solomon Yimer.

Photos: Ethiopian farmers blend tradition, innovation to sustain centuries-old agriculture

Solomon Yimer 25 Mar 2025
Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) in Lake Chinchaycocha in Junín, Peru.

Drowned lands and poisoned waters threaten Peru’s campesinos and their livestock

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025
A fishing cat photographed by a camera trap in Nepal. Image courtesy of Rama Mishra.

Fishing cat home range far bigger than previously thought, Nepal study suggests

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Mar 2025

As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water

Kevin Damasio 18 Feb 2025
An African pygmy goose.

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

Aimee Gabay 2 Feb 2025
Monpura Island. Image courtesy of Ammar Bin Asad.

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

Umme Sayeda 17 Jan 2025
Thai activists

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

Carolyn Cowan 16 Jan 2025
Weaving lungi by handloom at Dohar of Dhaka District. Image by Pervez Robin via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Syed Muntasir Ridwan 8 Jan 2025

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

Maxwell Radwin 16 Dec 2024

Andes glacier melt threatens Amazon’s rivers & intensifies droughts

Amanda Magnani 11 Dec 2024
Green-winged teals (Anas carolinensis) take flight over waters safeguarded in Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. Overall, the state has up to 260,000 hectares (640,000 acres) of at-risk wetlands. Photo credit: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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

Anna Fitzgerald Guth 2 Dec 2024

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

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Nov 2024
Corpus Christi at night, with fishing and pleasure boats set against the skyline. Image by Terry Ross via Wikimedia Commons.

Desalination plants proposed for Texas Gulf Coast spur broad opposition

Erik Hoffner 27 Nov 2024

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

Liz Kimbrough 22 Nov 2024

Organizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests

Ellen Nemitz 18 Nov 2024
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
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
A jellyfish swims in the sun in the mangroves.

Inaugural Planetary Health Check finds ocean acidification on the brink

Sean Mowbray 23 Sep 2024

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Fernanda Wenzel 5 Sep 2024
A fruit seller with peeled papaya in a market in Bangladesh.

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

Abu Siddique 3 Sep 2024
Nakphul (Lantana camara L.),

Government inaction leaves Nepal without strategy to tackle invasive species

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Aug 2024
An Amazonian manatee in a zoo.

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

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024

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

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024
In community fisheries reserves, fish scouts or guards patrol the rivers to remove illegal nets and enforce local rules. Fish monitors record catches that are taken legally to track the state of their local fish stocks. Photo courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

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

Gail Thomson 22 Aug 2024

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

Tácita Muniz 16 Aug 2024
A sea turtle in Ningaloo Reef, Australia.

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Glenn Scherer 13 Aug 2024

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