Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil
Sustainable forest management is an important strategy for generating income for local communities while keeping forests standing. Compliance with the label requires following strict rules on the...
View ArticleUttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise
With heat waves becoming a significant struggle, especially in urban India, many people are moving to hill stations with work-from-home options, seeking respite in states like Uttarakhand, at the seat...
View ArticleFrom selfies to treetops: Thai NGOs rescue and release captive gibbons
PHUKET, Thailand — The air is thick and sticky in the forest surrounding the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project center. Thanaphat Payakkaporn, head of the project, bends down to pick up the discarded shells...
View ArticleBaltimore officials are well aware water pollution struggles aren’t unique to...
Paris spent billions to clean up the River Seine for Olympic swimming, with mixed results. Baltimore knows how difficult it can be. The post Baltimore officials are well aware water pollution struggles...
View ArticleColombia’s coca substitution program failing to help farmers or slow...
For Indigenous communities in Colombia’s Amazonian and Andean forests, coca is sacred. Many ancestral traditions, such as healing and shamanic practices, include the use and cultivation of the plant....
View ArticleStudy highlights environmental and economic benefits of agroforestry for DRC...
Growing coffee in a forest with other trees and plants—a system known as agroforestry—can be as productive as growing it in a monoculture field, but it’s much less harmful, according to research in the...
View ArticleForest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study
Forest degradation — access roads, selective logging, fires, natural disturbances — is having a far greater impact on reducing carbon storage in the southern Brazilian Amazon than deforestation,...
View ArticlePerseid meteor shower: When and how to watch
The Perseid meteor shower – which Stargazers say is one of the best meteor showers of the year – is set to peak between August 11th and 13th. But you don’t need to wait that long, the first meteors...
View ArticleStreak of falling deforestation snapped at 15 months in Brazil’s Amazon...
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased on a month-over-month basis for the first time since March 2023, according to data released today by Brazil’s National Space Research Institute (INPE)....
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How the 2024 Paris Olympics handled the heat — and didn’t
Curled up on a small, white rectangle of fabric on the grass by a park bench in Paris, Italian swimmer Thomas Ceccon inadvertently took the internet by storm simply by sleeping outside. The moment,...
View ArticleEnvironments say the Olympics’‘eco-cups’ are are more wasteful than plastic...
At the Olympic Games, concession stands serve drinks in reusable plastic “eco-cups.” It’s a sustainability measure, Olympic organizers say, but environmentalists say they increase waste. The post...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists say the Olympics’‘eco-cups’ are more wasteful than plastic...
At the Olympic Games, concession stands serve drinks in reusable plastic “eco-cups.” It’s a sustainability measure, Olympic organizers say, but environmentalists say they increase waste. The post...
View ArticleFresh hope for bird with bizarre ‘crex crex’ call
The “crex crex” call of the corncrake was once a familiar sound in the British countryside. But habitat loss caused by modern farming methods pushed the bird to the brink of extinction. Now there are...
View ArticleAt the Olympics, reusable plastic cups are a gambit to reduce waste. Are they...
At the Olympic Games, concession stands serve drinks in reusable plastic “eco-cups.” It’s a sustainability measure, Olympic organizers say, but environmentalists say they increase waste. The post At...
View ArticleDown into the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ with Boaty McBoatface
NOC Battling choppy waves and high winds, three engineers pulled ashore a yellow submarine in Scotland this week. With sheets of water pouring from its body, the UK’s most famous robot – Boaty...
View ArticleThe world’s largest iceberg is stuck twirling in an ocean vortex
Iceberg A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island — has been near the South Orkney Islands since January, completing one full rotation every 24 days or so. (Image credit: /)The post The world’s...
View ArticleReservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks
Scientists have discovered a reservoir of liquid water on Mars – deep in the rocky outer crust of the planet. The findings come from a new analysis of data from Nasa’s Mars Insight Lander, which...
View ArticleDRC communities turn up heat on EU lenders funding palm oil giant PHC
On May 24, 2024, clashes broke out between members of a local community and security guards at an oil palm plantation in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the latest such...
View ArticleInside the secret Titanic warehouse
BBC A fashionable alligator handbag and tiny vials of perfume that still release a potent scent are just some of the precious artefacts recovered from the world’s most famous shipwreck – the Titanic....
View ArticleCommunities fend off attacks as officials study Brazil’s anti-Indigenous land...
Indigenous communities across Brazil have suffered a wave of violence in recent weeks as the country reconsiders a controversial law that makes it harder to claim ancestral territory. The Supreme Court...
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