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Lázaro Thor Borges Seeking re-election, Jair Bolsonaro’s government has championed the easing of environmental policy in Brazil, while opponents push for a sustainable turnaround Billboards scattered along the sides of highways that cut through the largest soybean farms in Brazil carried a clear

Aid , Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Data & Reports , Energy , Environment , Forests , Governance , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 06/02/2022

EU recovery plans promises green recovery, but is actually a threat to nature

The European Commission has claimed that the Recovery and Resilience Facility (EUR 672.5 billion) will ensure a ‘green recovery’ throughout Europe. Yet not only is it failing to protect and restore nature, it will likely even increase harm to it, according to a new Bankwatch and EuroNatur report

Soil , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/10/2016

Reinstating the traditional rainwater harvesting systems in water deficient district of Alwar, India

Shachi Chaturvedi A 2016 interim report done by Sehgal Foundation on the project points out that water harvesting structures under Jaldhaara have conserved 714,431 kiloliters of water, benefiting more than 2,000 people. Kilometers of barren hills with just spare thorny bushes for vegetation speak fo

Business , Climate , Disasters , Environment , Forests , Transport , Water / 09/06/2016

China’s ‘new Silk Road’ could expand Asia’s deserts

Liu Qin China’s massive Asian infrastructure network of proposed new roads and railways, new ports and airports, linking 65 countries to itself must grapple with the same problem as the ancient Silk Road it has been named after. Sand. Deserts present as big a problem along the “Silk Road Economi

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Environment , Featured , Forests , Human Rights , Resources , Sustainable Development / 09/05/2016

RE(D)D is BAD!

Rafał Chudy My view about the UN-REDD is very straightforward: it simply does not work and will never do, as it is based on wrong premises. I mean here that it will never realize targets included in its long name. However, I strongly argue that this program plays perfectly important political ro

Business , Environment , Food , Multimedia , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Videos / 08/26/2016

This Man Turned an Opium Field into a Sustainable Coffee Farm in Thailand

Todd Reubold Somsak Sriphumthong is on a caffeine-fueled mission. After years living and working abroad, the organic farmer and community leader returned to his native Thailand several years ago — during a time when the forests were being cleared for opium fields and rice plantations. Seeking a su

Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Food , Labour , Resources , Videos / 08/16/2016

The Shark Hunters: Film

Madison Stewart In 2016 I spent time with ‘Mark the Shark’ and ‘Vic Hislop’, two infamous shark hunters. I managed to sit down with and interview both, and join Mark for a day on his boat. This is the film I created about my interactions with the two men. Shark hunters repres

Environment , Forests , Videos / 08/14/2016

50,000 years old forest discovered under water

Rafal Chudy Near the coast of Alabama, scuba divers discovered a primeval underwater forest. The cypress forest was protected in an oxygen-free environment for more than 50 thousands years. Most likely, the forest was uncovered from ocean sediments by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Ben Raines, one of

Corruption , Environment , Food , Forests , Human Rights / 08/11/2016

Botswana: Helicopter crashes after shooting at Bushmen

Survival has documented dozens of human rights abuses against Bushmen by wildlife officials in the Kalahari A group of Bushmen who were hunting antelope to feed their families have been shot at from a police helicopter – which later crashed injuring six officers – while it was enforcing Botswana

Climate , Disasters , Environment , Featured , Water / 08/08/2016

Wedded to uncertainty: Stories of women married into families in the floodplains of Bihar, India

Amitangshu Acharya As Bihar is deluged again this year, with 89 lives lost so far, here are stories and images of survival, loss and resilience on villages near Gandak river basin One fateful night in August 2013, Gandak River breached the Gopalganj highway in Bihar and made its way through a small

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