At COP16, the ocean needs action, not more promises (commentary)
Our ocean is being hit hard by global warming. Marine heatwaves are devastating coral reefs, triggering the largest global mass bleaching event on record last year, while ocean wildlife — already...
View ArticleDR Congo: environmental activist faces 5 years in prison
LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo — An environmental activist in the Democratic Republic of Congo faces five years in prison over allegations that he threatened a logger allegedly engaged in...
View ArticleThe story of a village in Kazakhstan that sits on the Aral Sea’s shrinking...
Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia’s Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores of the Aral Sea....
View Article‘Glimmers of promise’ for 30×30 goal as UN report calls for boosted efforts
In December 2022, nearly 200 countries adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, committing to protect 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030. Now, two years into this initiative, a...
View ArticleBrazil minister rejects EU deforestation law despite postponement plans
Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Carlos Fávaro criticized the European Union’s anti-deforestation law, which bans the import of products linked to recently deforested land. This is the...
View ArticleNature presenter Chris Packham settles case over axing of green policy
Chris Packham has reached a settlement with the government over two legal challenges against its decision to remove or delay some environmental policies. The TV presenter took legal action against the...
View Article‘Don’t call it the high seas treaty’: Ocean biodiversity risks being...
The global treaty designed for the “objective of the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction,” adopted last year, has more recently gained...
View ArticleA wastewater recycling program could be a model for regions where water is...
The Orange County Water District’s wastewater recycling program uses ponds, manmade waterfalls and technology to keep wells from running dry — a model for other regions facing water scarcity. The post...
View ArticleInclusive tracking and recognition of area-based conservation helps people &...
To help address the biodiversity crisis, momentum has been gaining around establishing and tracking protected areas (PAs) and Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) to achieve...
View ArticleExtreme drought areas treble in size since 80s – study
BBC The area of land surface affected by extreme drought has trebled since the 1980s, a new report into the effects of climate change has revealed. Forty-eight per cent of the Earth’s land surface had...
View ArticleAncient oak named after a band is UK Tree of the Year
Woodland Trust A tree in the Scottish Highlands which could be 1,000 years old and known as the Skipinnish Oak has been named UK Tree of the Year. Native woodland experts had no idea the tree existed...
View ArticleCentral Asia’s Ticking Time Bomb: Water
The Aral Sea has nearly disappeared over the last 60 years. Now, its source rivers are depleting. (Image credit: Claire Harbage)The post Central Asia’s Ticking Time Bomb: Water first appeared on...
View ArticleFor Tanzania’s Maasai, adapting to climate change may mean less livestock,...
The village of Terrat, a settlement of around 14,000 people in the semiarid grassland and acacia forests of the Maasai Steppe, is one of many across northern Tanzania that has suffered increasingly...
View ArticleInternational panel launches guidelines for ‘high integrity’ biodiversity...
At the United Nations biodiversity conference currently underway in Colombia, an international panel has published a framework with guidelines to scale up “biodiversity credits,” an emerging financial...
View ArticleColombia decree recognizes Indigenous people as environmental authorities
Indigenous peoples in Colombia have been granted the authority to protect, manage and conserve biodiversity within their territories according to their knowledge. On Oct. 15, Colombian President...
View ArticleAs Nepal counts its snow leopards, even the best estimate is still a guess
KATHMANDU — Scientists and government officials have embarked on the uphill task of coming up with a number, or even just a range, for the population of snow leopards in the Himalayan country. To do...
View ArticleCOP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save forests
CALI, Colombia — The hunger for new, reliable forms of finance to save biodiverse forests in developing tropical countries was palpable here at a jam-packed event during the COP16 United Nations...
View ArticleAt least 71 dead as worst storm in decades hits Spain’s Valencia region
Torrential rains and flash floods have left at least 70 people dead and dozens missing in Spain’s Valencia region, in what is the region’s worst storm in nearly three decades, according to Spain’s...
View ArticleAt least 94 dead as worst storm in decades hits Spain’s Valencia region
Torrential rains and flash floods have left at least 92 people dead and dozens missing in Spain’s Valencia region, in what is the region’s worst storm in nearly three decades, according to Spain’s...
View ArticleNGOs, officials trade blame as Malaysian forest conservation project is scrapped
With an internationally backed project to protect core forest in Malaysia’s Sarawak state now quashed at the request of the state’s forest department, both NGOs and Sarawak forestry officials cite...
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