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Farmers harvesting wheat in Ukraine in the 1990s.

Did Wall Street play a role in this year’s wheat price crisis?

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Jul 2022
Smoke from a factory in Turkey

Turkey’s authoritarian development ignores planetary boundaries

Clément Girardot 21 Jul 2022
Young girls line up at a feeding centre in Mogadishu, Somalia

Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Jul 2022
Framers tending to their agricultural land in Uzbekistan.

Beyond boundaries: Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point

Petro Kotzé 21 Jun 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022

EU Parliament’s Environment Committee urges scale back of biomass burning

Justin Catanoso 18 May 2022

Geoengineering Earth’s climate future: Straight talk with Wake Smith

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 2022
People protest against ExxonMobil in Melbourne, Australia.

California subpoenas ExxonMobil over plastic pollution

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Apr 2022
Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022
In lab animals and humans, dysfunction of the gut microbiome has been linked to digestive diseases.

Unseen crisis: Threatened gut microbiome also offers hope for world

Claire Asher 26 Apr 2022

IPCC report calls for ‘immediate and deep’ carbon cuts to slow climate change

John Cannon 5 Apr 2022

The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching — once again — and over a larger area

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Mar 2022

Multiyear ice thinner than thought as Arctic sea ice reaches winter max: Studies

Alec Luhn 22 Mar 2022

Chemical recycling: ‘Green’ plastics solution makes more pollution, says report

Claire Asher 22 Mar 2022

Activists vow to take EU to court to fight its forest biomass policies

Justin Catanoso 14 Mar 2022

The world says yes to a cradle to grave plastics treaty: Now the work begins

Charles Pekow 7 Mar 2022

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2022

As world drowns in plastic waste, U.N. to hammer out global treaty

Charles Pekow 2 Feb 2022

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2022

In Africa, temperatures rise, but adaptation lags on West’s funding failure

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2022

The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 Jan 2022

Small coffee farmers lay their chips on smart agriculture to overcome climate crisis in the Cerrado biome

Débora Pinto 29 Dec 2021

As climate-driven drought slams farms in U.S. West, water solutions loom

Saul Elbein 17 Dec 2021

In a warming world, deforestation turns the heat deadly, Borneo study finds

Grace Dungey 25 Nov 2021
Representative animation of the soil formation process

Fighting climate change is a dirty job, but soils can do it | Problem Solved

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Nov 2021

‘Standing with your feet in the water’: COP26 struggles to succeed

Justin Catanoso 12 Nov 2021

COP26: Are climate declarations and emission reduction pledges legally binding?

Justin Catanoso 11 Nov 2021

COP26: E.U. is committed to forest biomass burning to cut fossil fuel use

Justin Catanoso 10 Nov 2021

COP26: Surging wood pellet industry threatens climate, say experts

Sharon Guynup 9 Nov 2021
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

New restoration “Playbook” calls for political, economic, and social change

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2021

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