A recent study, The costs of climate change in India, by the UK based Overseas Development Institute reviews climate change related risks faced by India and […]
Gurvinder Singh Growers of the world’s most expensive tea are going organic due to pressure from international buyers and a need to preserve the […]
A new World Bank report shows that for every dollar governments invest in protected areas and support for nature-based tourism, the economic rate of […]
Liz Kimbrough United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration launched by U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The goal: to prevent, […]
Sandra Cordon The Second World Ocean Assessment lays out critical state of oceans – and how little is known about them Oceans cover over […]
Michael Tatarski Upstream dams are blocking the sediment that nourishes the Mekong delta, while erosion and sand miners take what remains
Tanya Wadhwa On the International Mother Earth Day, Bolivian President Luis Arce announced the reactivation of the Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth to promote […]
Three hundred million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples, according to Survival International World leaders […]
In making the move, Belgium joins Denmark, France, and the Netherlands as other European nations that have barred palm oil-based biodiesel due the crop’s […]
A small community of Brazilian Indians has won a land rights case at Brazil’s Supreme Court that could have major repercussions for indigenous people […]
Andrey Ralev The Blagoevgradska Bistritsa hydropower cascade was planned to use only the drinking water of the town of Blagoevgrad. Eight years later, it […]
Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory and loss of habitat, the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is now listed […]