Maluku farmers sweat El Niño drought as Indonesia rice prices surge
BURU ISLAND, Indonesia – At the beginning of November last year, Tamami’s rice field lay vacant except for a herd of cattle grazing on the land. Like many rice farmers here on Buru Island in...
View ArticleStricken Japanese Moon mission landed on its nose
Published49 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, JAXA By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent Japan’s Moon lander ended up on its nose when it made its historic...
View ArticleHotter seas lead to coral bleaching along Colombia’s coast, 2023 expeditions...
Coral bleaching is on the rise along Colombia’s Caribbean coast, according to the results of several expeditions made by Corales de Paz, an NGO that works to conserve and restore the South American...
View ArticleINCRA as a regulatory agency | Chapter 3 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”
The third pillar of the institutional mission of the Instituto Nacional de Colonização y Reforma Agraria (INCRA) encompasses both administrative and legal aspects of land tenure and, as such, is the...
View ArticleTerra Legal program to regularize small property owners | Chapter 3 of “A...
The need to fast-track the regularização of smallholder titles motivated the Terra Legal programme, which sent teams of surveyors to selected municipalities to accelerate the process for landholdings...
View ArticleJokowi’s land reform agenda stalls as conflicts nearly double, report shows
JAKARTA — Land conflicts nearly doubled under the administration of Indonesia’s current president, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, compared with his predecessor, driven largely by his prioritization of investors...
View ArticleLula’s ambitious green agenda runs up against Congress’s agribusiness might
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by half in 2023 from the year before, showing that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s efforts to restore environmental protections dismantled by his...
View ArticleReport: Human tragedy stalks the prized Honduran lobster industry
The Caribbean spiny lobster is a coveted delicacy. But its flourishing trade comes at the expense of the Indigenous Miskito community living along the Atlantic coast of Honduras, according to an...
View ArticleDemand for minerals sparks fear of mining abuses on Indigenous peoples' lands
Many deposits for minerals used in EV batteries and solar panels are on or near lands of Indigenous groups. Native communities worry about repeats of past mining abuses, but there may be solutions. The...
View Article‘Hope is the last to die’: Q&A with Indigenous leader Jose Parava on land rights
“Hope is the last to die. We are apprehensive about what happened, but we will fight.” These are the words of Indigenous leader Jose Antônio Parava Ramos, a member of the Chiquitano people whose...
View ArticleIngenuity: Damage puts end to ground-breaking Mars helicopter mission
Published9 hours ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Sam HancockBBC News Nasa’s...
View ArticleHermit crabs are 'wearing' our plastic rubbish
Published17 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Shawn Miller By Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News Hermit crabs all over the world, which scavenge...
View ArticleRSPB Birdwatch 2024: Fewer wild birds visiting UK gardens
Published32 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, RSPB By Justin RowlattClimate editor, BBC News Fewer wild birds are visiting UK gardens, with greenfinches,...
View ArticleHow California is casting a cloud over residential solar
The past five years have been something of a blur for the crew at Energy Concepts Enterprises. The company, which has been installing solar panels in and around Fresno, California, since 1992, could...
View Article'Hot droughts' are becoming more common in the arid West, new study finds
Scientists looked at trees to better understand the interplay between temperatures and droughts in the Western U.S. Human-caused climate change is exacerbating both. (Image credit: Mario Tama/Getty...
View ArticleNew tool aims to help palm oil firms comply with deforestation regulations
As countries around the world begin to either propose or enforce zero-deforestation regulations, companies are coming under growing pressure to prove that their products are free of deforestation. But...
View ArticleCaribbean traditional plant knowledge needs recognition or it’s lost: Study
Despite being a treasure trove of rich biodiversity and traditional plant knowledge, little of the ecological knowledge of Afro-descendent peoples in the Caribbean is recognized internationally. For...
View ArticleClimate change made 2023 Amazon drought 30 times more likely, scientists say
Global warming was the main driver of the severe drought that parched the Amazon River Basin in 2023. That is the alarming conclusion of a new report from World Weather Attribution (WWA), a team of...
View ArticleEnergy secretary on the Biden administration's pause of future natural gas...
NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about the Biden administration’s decision to delay some key natural gas exports. The post Energy secretary on the Biden...
View ArticleRSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2024: Your pictures
Published44 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Jon Lo The RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend is the world’s biggest wildlife citizen science project. Half...
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