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Five trends that will define the world’s forests in 2016

  Bill Laurance The past year has been a momentous time for the world’s forests, with both good and bad news. Fasten your seat belts, because 2016 promises to be another roller-coaster ride. Here I highlight five factors that could have a big impact on forests this year. For further discussio

Children paid in moonshine and glue for cleaning toilets in central Africa

Children in the African rainforests have been paid in glue to sniff, and alcohol, in return for menial work Market traders in the Republic of Congo plying children from the Bayaka tribe with glue in 2013, in exchange for cleaning out latrines. In Cameroon Baka tribespeople, illegally evicted from th

Progress can Kill: Survival report reveals world’s highest suicide rate

A new report published by Survival International reveals that the appalling suicide rate among the indigenous Guarani Kaiowá people of southern Brazil is the highest in the world. The rate of self-inflicted deaths within the tribe is 34 times the Brazilian national average, and statistically the h

What Kenya’s biggest slum can teach us about saving cities from floods

Katie G. Nelson An innovative design firm is using data and community outreach to protect Nairobi’s poorest residents from devastating storms. Orignially posted at Ensia, magazine showcasing environmental solutions in action. Republished by SixDegrees on arrangement with Ensia under Creative C

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Give bees a chance: the ancient art of beekeeping could save our honey (and us too)

Marianne Peso There’s no denying it: we’re in a long-term relationship… with bees. Recent evidence published in the journal Nature shows that humans have been depending on honey bees for about 9,000 years. Researchers conducted chemical analyses of over 6,000 fragments of pottery revealing the

Rainwater harvesting brings hope to farmers in Pakistan’s Punjab

Aamir Saeed Punjab’s Small Dams Organisation constructed 20 mini dams during the year 2000 and 2010 to help farmers irrigate more acres of land Extreme weather conditions and erratic rainfall had added an edge of desperation to Muhammad Khan’s struggle for survival, taking him and his family to

Abu Dhabi device harvests untapped solar power

Rehab Abd Almohsen Researchers in Abu Dhabi have created a low-cost device that can make solar cells panels more efficient by splitting sunlight into its constituent colours. The plastic device both concentrates and separates sunlight into its key spectral components: all the visible colours of the

Are energy-saving settings bad for the environment?

Peter Fairley “Eco modes” ostensibly reduce environmental impact — but only if people use them. Orignially posted at Ensia, magazine showcasing environmental solutions in action. Republished by SixDegrees on arrangement with Ensia under Creative Commons’ Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported l

From Zorro to Zombie: the rise and fall of the microcredit movement

Milford Bateman, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia The global microcredit industry has achieved nothing more for the mass of clients than to plunge them into deep debt and irretrievable poverty. This is part of a series The Conversation Africa is running on financial inclusion and micro cred

Local level water cooperation flourishes in Central Asia

Bunyod Holmatov & Jonathan Lautze Despite high-level tensions between countries, water cooperation is thriving on the tributaries of the Syr Darya Water has been a major cause of tension for Central Asian countries since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The planting of vast cotton fields and

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