Court throws out permits for controversial Baja California hotel project
MEXICO CITY — A hotel project in northern Mexico has stalled following a series of legal complaints that it failed to meet environmental standards, which would have protected coastal ecosystems and...
View ArticleU.S. policy experts confident of future climate action despite Trump election
With the start of the 29th U.N. climate summit, COP29, less than a week away, former U.S. environmental leaders said they have no delusions as to what the election of Donald Trump to the presidency...
View ArticleThe rubber boom and its legacy in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia
The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the invention of the automobile (1886), led to exponential growth in the demand for rubber, which was...
View ArticleSomebody moved UK’s oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why
BBC/Gerry Fletcher Someone moved the UK’s oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why. Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon,...
View ArticleCOP29: With public climate finance shortfall, is investment capital a way...
As 198 nations convene in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the 29th United Nations climate summit, one word will almost certainly dominate COP29 technical negotiations and private discussions: finance. After two...
View ArticleLong-running tropical forest research stalls amid Venezuelan crisis
José Rafael Lozada had systematically monitored forest plots for almost 25 years in the Caparo Forest Reserve, the last tropical rainforest of Venezuela’s western plains, when about 300 peasant...
View ArticleA Kenya water fund partners with farmers to protect vital resources
This is Part 1 of a two-part series on Kenya’s Eldoret-Iten Water Fund. Part 2 will be published Tuesday, Nov. 12. When farmers in the upstream Moiben catchment of Kenya’s Cherangany Hills Water Tower...
View ArticleTrump picks former Rep. Lee Zeldin to be his EPA administrator
President-elect Donald Trump said the New York Republican would help push deregulation and support American businesses. Environmental groups decried the nomination. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)The...
View ArticleAt COP29, US envoy upbeat despite looming climate policy changes
Baku, Azerbaijan The outcome of the recent elections in the United States looms large on the United Nations Climate Change Summit, which opened in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. As...
View ArticleWildfires burn record 97% of key biodiversity area in Brazil’s Cerrado
Intense wildfires burned through a record-breaking 97% of the Serra das Araras conservation area in Brazil’s megadiverse Cerrado savanna earlier this year, the national parks agency, ICMBio, told...
View ArticleAfrican elephants declining — but some areas show promise
Across the African continent, elephant populations have largely declined over the past several decades, but some areas show hopeful signs of recovery, according to a new study. Researchers have...
View ArticleNew ‘Cali Fund’ plans to make companies pay for benefiting from nature
A new global fund for conservation seeks to make corporations share part of their profits of benefiting from using genetic data from animals, plants or microorganisms in nature. Named the Cali Fund,...
View ArticlePeruvian fishers help red sea urchins recover from overfishing
At 8 a.m., 15 divers from the Artisanal Fishers Association Cristóbal Colón meet on Carrizales beach in the Marcona district of Nazca province in southern Peru. They tie a mesh bag to their waist and...
View ArticleDutch appeals court overturns landmark climate ruling against Shell
The original 2021 ruling ordered Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels. The appeals court said there is “insufficient consensus” on a specific reduction percentage....
View ArticleThe long and complicated — and expensive — effort to replace lead lines in...
Cincinnati’s public water utility is on a years-long effort to replace its lead service lines. They began in 2016 following the crisis in Flint, Michigan. The post The long and complicated — and...
View ArticleA rainforest in Africa aims to reverse damage after years of conflict and...
A unique wilderness in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being revived and preserved for future generations. The post A rainforest in Africa aims to reverse damage after years of conflict and neglect...
View ArticleUsing regenerative agriculture to heal the land and help communities: Q&A...
In Seruyan, a regency in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province, independent smallholders are trialing regenerative agriculture strategies in their oil palm farms in an effort to shift away from...
View ArticleSatellite data detect appearance of new roads in primary forests in Borneo
Recent satellite data and imagery have detected the construction of what appear to be new roads cutting across primary forest in the Barito River watershed and near a protected area in Kalimantan, the...
View ArticleRunaway ‘spy whale’ fled Russian military training says marine scientist
Norwegian Orca Survey The mystery as to why a beluga whale appeared off the coast of Norway wearing a harness may finally have been solved. The tame white whale, which locals named Hvaldimir, made...
View ArticleScuba divers in Minnesota tackle problem of freshwater lake garbage
Every year, millions of pounds of garbage pollute freshwater lakes across the U.S. In Minnesota, scuba divers took a deeper look at where all the underwater trash is coming from and how to prevent it....
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