New fund supports Indigenous-led land management in biodiverse area of Bolivia
A new fund, announced Oct. 30, plans to support the territorial land management visions of four Indigenous organizations in Bolivia’s Madidi Landscape. It has so far attracted $650,000 in initial...
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The political movement that brought Evo Morales to power incorporated a latent conflict between highland and lowland Indigenous communities. The lowland nations are intent on recuperating their...
View ArticleShould more British homes be built using straw?
Published2 hours ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, EcoCocon By Chris BaraniukTechnology reporter This year, straw from Lithuania will envelop a building in the quiet...
View ArticleToxic run-off from roads not monitored, BBC finds
Published2 hours ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Jonah Fisher/BBC By Jonah FisherEnvironment correspondent A toxic mix of oil, chemicals and bits of tyre from roads...
View ArticleThe EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances
A study by the U.S. Geological Survey found that the man-made chemicals are present in nearly half the country’s tap water supply. (Image credit: Joshua A. Bickel/AP) The post The EPA is proposing...
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A Superfund for climate change? States consider a new way to make Big Oil pay.
Last June, the normally warm and humid but still pleasant New England summer was disrupted by a series of unusually heavy rain storms. Flash floods broke creek banks and washed away roads, inundating...
View ArticleIgnoring Indigenous rights is making the green transition more expensive
In December, a federal judge found that Enel Green Power, an Italian energy corporation operating an 84-turbine wind farm on the Osage Reservation for nearly a decade, had trespassed on Native land....
View ArticleBid to mitigate gold mine’s impact on orangutans hit by stonewalling, data...
JAKARTA — A conservation task force trying to help an Indonesian mine operator minimize its impact on the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s most threatened great ape, says it was the company’s rush to...
View ArticleEndangered vulture species nesting in Ghana is rare good news about raptors
Researchers recently reported finding three critically endangered vulture species nesting in Mole National Park, Ghana’s largest protected area. It’s the first scientific observation of hooded vultures...
View ArticleGhana’s medicinal plants, the ‘first aid’ for communities, are under threat
Rural communities in southwestern Ghana lacking access to conventional medicine are using dozens of medicinal tree species to treat up to 83 ailments, according to a new study. However, many of these...
View ArticleSarawak government’s hydropower plans worry Indigenous communities
As Sarawak’s top officials plan three new hydropower dams, seemingly eager to export more electricity, some Indigenous residents of the Malaysian Bornean state are urging officials to slow down...
View ArticleAn effort to reduce congestion in the streets of Paris goes before voters on...
Parisians vote Sunday in a referendum that would impose huge parking fees on SUVs. It’s an effort to get them out of the city to reduce pollution and crowding. The post An effort to reduce congestion...
View ArticleThe mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, looks back on train derailment one year later
One year after a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, NPR’s Scott Detrow sits down with Mayor Trent Conaway to discuss how the village is recovering. The post The mayor of East Palestine, Ohio,...
View ArticleRobot plane to map mysteries of wild Antarctica
Published20 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing By Georgina RannardBBC Climate and science reporter A team of scientists and engineers have landed in Antarctica to test a drone...
View ArticleBrazil’s 2024-2027 “Transversal Environmental Agenda”: The elephants in the...
Brazil’s “Transversal Environmental Agenda,” released on 25 January 2024, contains many good things for the government to be doing, but it misses the opportunity to implant what a transversal agenda...
View ArticleNew atom-smasher could spark physics revolution
Published42 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Kate Stephens/BBC News By Pallab Ghosh and Kate StephensBBC News, Cern, Switzerland Researchers at the world’s...
View ArticleIn New York, 1 in 4 residents now live within a half-mile of a mega warehouse
This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Stephanie Joseph loves her dream home, a colonial-style house in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. She and her husband stayed...
View ArticleIn the Brazilian outback, the half-century Kapinawá struggle for sacred ground
BUÍQUE, Pernambuco, Brazil — In the Brazilian backlands, the jurema is a most willful tree: When you think it’s dead, it sprouts again. You can cut it, tear it down, burn it; at the first thunderstorm,...
View ArticleIndonesia and Spain sign agreement to protect migrant fishing workers
JAKARTA — Indonesia and Spain have signed an agreement on accrediting Indonesian migrant deckhands, as part of efforts to beef up protection against modern slavery aboard fishing vessels. Under the...
View ArticleFrom murder to mining, threats abound in Colombian Amazon Indigenous reserves
In June 2023, where the Caquetá River leaves Colombian territory and enters Brazil, no more than 35 kilometers (21.7 miles) from the border, Custodio Yucuna Tanimuca came across a group of soldiers...
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