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The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America, critics say

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 2 Nov 2023
Kuikuro men playing flutes.

The Amazon’s archaeology of hope: Q&A with anthropologist Michael Heckenberger

Peter Speetjens 18 Oct 2023
Plastics of all shapes, sizes, colors and composition enter the ocean every day, with largely unknown impacts.

Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems

Claire Asher 9 Oct 2023
Pigeon flock in Nepal

Super flock of pigeons leaves Nepali researchers asking what happened

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Sep 2023

Oil and gas exploration threatens Bolivian Chaco water supply

Iván Paredes Tamayo, Nelfi Fernández Reyes 24 Aug 2023

A tale of two biomes as deforestation surges in Cerrado but wanes in Amazon

Sarah Brown 23 Aug 2023

Tropical lakes are carbon super sinks, even more than forests, study shows

Evanildo da Silveira 18 Aug 2023

Zika, dengue transmission expected to rise with climate change

Luís Patriani 9 Aug 2023

The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay

Andrew Johnson 1 Aug 2023
The Amazon rainforest in Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Why should funding Amazon forest sustainability be the world’s top priority? (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper, Mariana Senna, Ricardo Politi 20 Jul 2023
rhino in Nepal

Nepal’s rhinos are eating plastic waste, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2023

Projects in Brazil’s Caatinga biome combine conservation and climate adaptation

Kevin Damasio 23 Jun 2023

Sugarcane: The monoculture that transformed southern Quintana Roo

Adriana Varillas and Alejandro Castro 21 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023

In Senegal, rice intensification helps farmers grow more with less

Noah Tobias 30 May 2023
A trefoil horseshoe bat

Flooding for hydropower dams hits forest-reliant bats hard, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2023
A youth leader demonstrates the impact of oil production on the local community.

As Shell, Eni quit Niger Delta, state-backed report describes legacy of carnage

Ashoka Mukpo 16 May 2023
Overhead shot of two men standing in shallow water, bent over repairing a large wooden canoe. Image by Bolaji Eiseke via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

For weary Niger Delta residents, shocking oil pollution report offers little hope

Ini Ekott 16 May 2023

On the border of Colombia and Venezuela, illegal gold mining unites armed forces

Jose Guarnizo 12 May 2023
Flooded road.

Dhaka faces manifold problems as water bodies diminish

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 10 May 2023
Aerial image of Tinipak River.

‘It gives life’: Philippine tribe fights to save a sacred river from a dam

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 9 May 2023
Mekong giant catfish

‘Chasing giants’: Q&A with megafish biologist and author Zeb Hogan

Carolyn Cowan 9 May 2023

Sri Lanka aims to restore ancient irrigation tanks in climate change plan

Malaka Rodrigo 22 Apr 2023
James Njuguna, a shepherd who lives near the Manguo swamp.

Drying wetlands and drought threaten water supplies in Kenya’s Kiambu County

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 5 Apr 2023

Chile communities defy the desert by capturing increasingly scarce water

Michelle Carrere 4 Apr 2023

In Brazil, scientists fight an uphill battle to restore the disappearing Cerrado savanna

Sarah Sax 3 Apr 2023
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

At the U.N. Water Conference, food security needs to take center stage (commentary)

Thomas Grasso and Darko Manakovski 23 Mar 2023

A freshwater giant is a boon to Bolivian fishers, but an unknown for native species

Iván Paredes Tamayo 9 Mar 2023
The daily livestock market in Lodwar, Turkana County's biggest business hub. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Fishermen at dawn heading out onto Lake Turkana to try their luck for the day. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

Herders turn to fishing in the desert amid severe drought, putting pressure on fish population

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
A blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Forest modeling misses the water for the carbon: Q&A with Antonio Nobre & Anastassia Makarieva

Judith D. Schwartz 7 Feb 2023
Forests of Bolivia.

Reciprocal Water Agreements protect millions of hectares of Bolivian forest

Michelle Carrere 19 Jan 2023

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