‘Planting water, eating Caatinga & irrigating with the sun’: Interview with...
While wind turbines and solar panels multiply across the Brazilian dry forests, Tião Alves insists on tin windmills and PET bottle-based heaters. “Backcountry technology,” as he defines it, arguing...
View ArticleNew U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand ‘climate-smart’ acres
American agroforestry initiatives got a big boost of funding in 2022 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which allocated $60 million to help farmers transition toward this style of...
View ArticleBiomass-burning coal plants leave the air even dirtier, Java communities say
INDRAMAYU, Indonesia — A veil of smog lurks over Surono and Umroh’s home as relatives and neighbors file inside to greet the couple. Umroh welcomes the new arrivals over lunch as family members and...
View ArticleHow do you save the pint from climate change?
Published9 hours agocommentsComments Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent Climate change threatens to “call time” on the...
View ArticleThe environmental and social liabilities of the extractive sector
Environmental advocates routinely oppose mining and hydrocarbon-development projects because they believe that remote areas of the Amazon should remain pristine. Typically, they organize their...
View ArticleConservation comeback in Central African Republic’s Manovo-Gounda St Floris...
Located in northeastern Central African Republic (CAR) close to the Chad and Sudan borders, Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park is the largest park in the Central African savannas, covering 17,400...
View Article‘Another catastrophe’: Flooding destroys Indigenous agroforestry projects in...
Flooding caused by heavy rains in central Peru in March displaced hundreds of Indigenous families and destroyed their sustainable agroforestry projects, raising concerns about how they’ll recover and...
View ArticleAgroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras
Ivis Rene Cabrera no longer gazes up at the sky in hopes of rain to irrigate his field. He’s come to expect the long dry spells as northwestern Honduras grapples with increasingly longer periods of...
View ArticleTanzania’s ‘mountain of millipedes’ yields six new species
Scientists have recently described six new species of millipedes, including one from an entirely new genus, in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains. This brings the number of new species found in the...
View Article£5bn Thames super sewer set for completion
Published40 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Thames Tideway Tunnel By Jonah FisherEnvironment correspondent After eight years, major construction work on...
View ArticleAmazon prosecutors get sharper impact tool to charge illegal gold dealers
In the nonstop battle to curtail illegal gold mining across the Amazon and the massive damage it does to rainforests, biodiversity and human health, a Brazilian research team has sharpened an economic...
View ArticleJaguar release offers a lifeline to Gran Chaco’s lonely big cats
The lowland forest of El Impenetrable National Park in northern Argentina sprawls across the hot, swampy green of the Gran Chaco biome, home to South America’s largest mammals and thousands of plant...
View ArticleMining industry touts green pledges to attract talent, but Gen Z isn’t buying it
Tripling global renewable energy capacity was one of the headline commitments coming out of last year’s U.N. climate conference in Dubai. And increased mining of critical minerals, which are vital to...
View ArticleSmaller population estimate underscores urgency of saving Cao-vit gibbon
The Cao-vit gibbon is one of the most critically endangered apes in the world, with its entire population living in a single patch of protected forest on the border between northern Vietnam and...
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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to...
The spotlight There are more museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonald’s combined. Within walking distance of the Grist office in downtown Seattle, there’s a pinball museum, an NFT...
View ArticleLebanese youths take up rods and reels to learn sustainable fishing
AMCHIT, Lebanon — Amchit’s harbor bustles with activity on a sunny January morning, one of the first in more than three weeks. A group of 16 youths from the coastal village of Bnine, in Akkar district,...
View ArticleWe need rapid response support for Indigenous peoples in the face of growing...
In recent weeks, Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) has seen Indigenous peoples and local communities we work with in the Peruvian Amazon and the Congo Basin devastated by unprecedented rains. In Peru,...
View ArticleReport links pulpwood estate clearing Bornean orangutan habitat to RGE Group
JAKARTA — Indonesia is experiencing a resurgence in forest clearance due to the expansion of pulpwood and oil palm plantations, reversing years of declining deforestation associated with these two...
View ArticlePreviously logged forests struggle to thrive, even with restoration, study finds
Young trees face significant challenges surviving in previously logged forests compared to intact forests, even in areas with active restoration efforts, according to a recent study. The findings,...
View ArticleE-waste drawers of doom growing, say campaigners
Published4 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing By Harriet BradshawClimate and science reporter Household hoards of unused electricals and broken tech are growing, a recycling...
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