Environmental protests under attack: Interview with UN special rapporteur...
Events in February felt like a legal double whammy for the environment and its defenders. First, the United Nations Environment Assembly declined a Bolivian proposal to grant rights to nature and...
View ArticleU.K. court to hear lawsuit for victims of Brazilian dam disaster
After years of delays, a class action lawsuit is finally moving forward against the companies involved in a catastrophic dam collapse that released toxic sludge into communities across rural Brazil....
View ArticleIndigenous Wai Wai seek markets for Brazil nuts without middlemen
SÃO JOÃO DA BALIZA, Brazil — Levi da Silva Kaykûwû smiles as he explains the wealth that Brazil nuts have generated for his community. “We’ve been able to buy chainsaws, aluminum-made boats and...
View ArticleBorneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management
PULANG PISAU, Indonesia — Bandi paddled through the black swamp, passing alongside banks of high brush outside Kalawa village here in the south of Borneo Island. The narrow canoe, known here as a ces,...
View ArticleResting cuckoo bees win insect photo competition
10 minutes ago Luke Chambers Sleeping cuckoos, by Yorkshire-based Luke Chambers, has won this year’s Royal Entomological Society Insect Week photography competition. Chambers’ photo shows two cuckoo...
View ArticleChina space probe returns with rare Moon rocks
China’s lunar probe has returned to Earth with the first ever samples from the Moon’s unexplored far side. The Chang’e-6 landed in the Inner Mongolia desert on Tuesday, after a nearly two-month long...
View ArticleNew study reaffirms Indigenous lands key to mitigating climate change in Brazil
In April, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recognized an additional two Indigenous territories, including one 32,000-hectare (more than 79,000-acre) territory belonging to the Karajá...
View ArticleNew approach to restore coral reefs on mass scale kicks off in Hawai‘i
A decade ago, the world experienced its third global coral bleaching event — and the vibrant, colorful corals along the western coast of Hawai‘i’s big island began to fade. Rising sea temperatures...
View ArticleVenezuela: Water crisis looms as deforestation spreads in Yacambú National Park
Millions of people in northwestern Venezuela could be at risk of losing access to clean drinking water if more effort isn’t given to conserving natural watersheds and protected forests,...
View ArticleIn ‘the century of Africa,’ Mongabay’s new bureau reports its biggest...
No matter where you are, the air you breathe is almost certainly affected by the health and well-being of the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest, the Congo Basin, says David Akana, program...
View ArticleWhy are the Boeing Starliner astronauts still in space?
11 minutes ago Nasa The two astronauts testing out Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft were supposed to begin making their way back to Earth on Wednesday night but instead they will stay on the...
View ArticleElon Musk could avert global species extinction with only a portion of his...
Can we save thousands of the world’s most threatened animals and plants from extinction by protecting just a tiny fraction of the Earth’s surface? A new study in Frontiers in Science suggests that...
View ArticleIowa floodwaters breach levees as even more rain dumps onto parts of the Midwest
A vast swath of the Midwest has been under siege from torrential rains while also being hit with a heat wave. Hundreds of people were rescued, homes were damaged, and at least two people have died....
View ArticleFarmers ‘at war’ with countryside crime gangs
53 minutes ago By Malcolm Prior, @NewsMPrior, BBC News, rural affairs correspondent Simon Porter Farmers and landowners say they are “at war” with countryside crime gangs and need more help from...
View ArticleReintroduction project brings golden parakeets back to the skies of Brazil’s...
BELÉM, Brazil — The golden parakeet is as noisy as it is brightly colored. Hanging from the branches above, three of these medium-sized parrots screech and squawk as they peer down to get a better look...
View ArticleFrench court greenlights lawsuit against EDF over wind farm in Mexico
JUCHITÁN, Mexico – Indigenous farmers from southern Mexico angry over landscape damage and poor consultations associated with a massive wind power project have had their day in court in France, where...
View ArticleInvestigation confirms more abuses on Nigeria, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations
In 2023, Socfin hired a consultancy to investigate longstanding allegations of human rights violations and environmental damage raised by communities living around the Belgian transnational company’s...
View ArticleKenyan farmers turn to WhatsApp & AI tools to combat crop diseases
As millions of farmers suffer each year from crop and livestock deaths due to pests and diseases, some growers in Africa are turning to a host of advanced technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) and...
View ArticleActivists blame policy failures over climate change for Nepal Terai’s water...
KATHMANDU — Until a few years ago, villagers in Siraha in Nepal’s Madhesh province accessed water by digging a few meters into the ground, as this method was easier than laying pipes. Water gushed...
View ArticleGassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, the first country to...
Levels of methane have increased particularly quickly since 2020. Livestock account for about 32% of human-caused methane emissions, the U.N. Environment Program says. (Image credit: Vadim Ghirda)The...
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