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A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024

In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

New paper urges shift to ‘nature positivity’ to restore Earth

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 May 2021

The HFC challenge: Can the Montreal Protocol continue its winning streak?

Jane Palmer 5 May 2021

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

Gloria Dickie 29 Apr 2021

Reversing warming quickly could prevent worst climate change effects: Study

Claire Asher 28 Apr 2021

‘Profound ignorance’: Microbes, a missing piece in the biodiversity puzzle

Ian Morse 26 Apr 2021

Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics

Justin Catanoso 23 Apr 2021

Rainforest creek in the Colombian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Humanity’s dysfunctional relationship with Earth can still be fixed, report says

Mongabay.com 22 Apr 2021

Food systems drive a third of greenhouse gas emissions, study estimates

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2021

As COP26 looms and tropical deforestation soars, REDD+ debate roars on

Peter Yeung 15 Apr 2021

Though humanity exceeds key ‘planetary boundaries’ there are many solutions

Mike Gaworecki 8 Apr 2021

The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable

Claire Asher 30 Mar 2021

Oceans helped absorb our CFCs. They’re now going to emit them back out

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Mar 2021

A modern sailing vessel passes a fossil-fueled container ship. Image via Visualhunt.

New age of sail looks to slash massive maritime carbon emissions

Andrew Willner 15 Mar 2021

Getting hands-on with pollination can boost cocoa yields, study shows

Sarah Derouin 8 Mar 2021

As Amazon forest-to-savanna tipping point looms, solutions remain elusive

Shanna Hanbury 23 Feb 2021

Satellite image of Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand in February 2021. Photo credit: Maxar Technologies and Planet.

‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini

Rhett A. Butler 22 Feb 2021

A lemur tree frog (Hylomantis lemur) in Costa Rica. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

U.N. report lays out blueprint to end ‘suicidal war on nature’

John Cannon 19 Feb 2021

500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Feb 2021

Will new US EPA head continue his opposition to burning forests for energy?

Justin Catanoso 4 Feb 2021

shiny green beetle

Death by 1,000 cuts: Are major insect losses imperiling life on Earth?

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jan 2021

The Durmitor Mountains and the Tara River Canyon in Montenegro. Image by Pudelek (Marcin Szala) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture

John Cannon 18 Jan 2021

Humanity’s ‘ecological Ponzi scheme’ sets up bleak future, scientists warn

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Jan 2021

For sustainable business, ‘planetary boundaries’ define the new rules

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Nov 2020

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