Environment

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Climate displacement in Africa: Court opinion could define states’ obligations

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is expected to soon issue an advisory opinion on states’ obligations toward internally displaced persons affected by climate change. “Internally displace...

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Goldman Prize winner Alannah Hurley fights Pebble Mine “from a place of love”

In the early 2000s, Alannah Acaq Hurley began working over her college summer breaks to spread awareness among rural communities in Southeast Alaska about a project called Pebble Mine: a pit 4 kilomet...

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Bringing the world’s rewilders together: Interview with Alister Scott

Rewilding — the process of letting nature take over — is having its moment across the world at every scale. From an 18th-century abandoned farm in the French Alps, to a volcanic lake in Indonesia, to ...

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War, climate change, and AI on the agenda at this year’s U.N. Indigenous forum

This story is republished through the Indigenous News Alliance. Hundreds of delegates are arriving at the United Nations this week for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples. But they arr...

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Chernobyl’s radioactive landscape is a testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Wildlife is thriving again four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant in what became the exclusion zone created by the forced mass evacuations...

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Nigerian bat specialist wins Goldman Prize for community conservation work

In the forested highlands of southern Nigeria’s Cross River state, plumes of smoke signal the annual fire season from January to April, when farmers routinely use fire to clear new land for planting c...

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To tackle trafficking in gibbons, experts probe what drives demand

“When we first got Joy, we thought he was a monkey,” says Esther. A hunter had come to her village in the Malaysian state of Sabah, on the island of Borneo, to sell wild meat. He showed Esther (not he...

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Conservation collects more data than ever. What is it for?

Before launching a monitoring program, conservationists are often asked how data will be collected, which indicators will be used, and how results will be analyzed. Less often, they are asked a simple...

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Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road

A strategic shift in law clears the way for a highway that scientists warn will push the Amazon to a tipping point.

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Emmanuel de Merode, director of Virunga National Park: “If Conservation Creates Hardships, It Won’t Work”

SALONGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of the Congo — For over two decades, Emmanuel de Merode has worked at the intersection of conservation, conflict, and development in the eastern Democratic R...

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DRC: Can the Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor Transform a War Economy into an Economy of Hope?

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Félix Tshisekedi is banking on one of Africa’s most ambitious conservation and development plans to transform the future of the Democratic Republic of the ...

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Energy Crisis Spurs Global Push for Remote Work

The energy shocks rippling from the war in Iran have prompted countries, from Cambodia to Peru, to embrace remote work. Leaders in Europe are now joining the push as they look to curb consumption of o...

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Malawi government suspends coal miner’s license over river pollution

The Malawi government has suspended the mining license of a coal company for dumping mining waste into two rivers that communities rely on for water. The suspension follows an uproar by one of the com...

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Revealed: Scientists tell Colombia fossil-fuel transition summit to ‘halt new expansion’

Countries attending a first-of-its-kind fossil-fuel summit have been asked to consider “action recommendations” such as...The postRevealed: Scientists tell Colombia fossil-fuel transition summit to ‘h...

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A red flower found nowhere else loses ground as mining expands in Brazil’s Amazon

In Brazil’s eastern Amazon, a bright red flower found nowhere else on Earth is threatened with extinction from expanding iron ore mining, scientists warn. The flowering plant, Ipomoea cavalcantei, kno...

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Meet the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Six environmental activists from around the world will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 20. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize,” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the six inhabit...

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Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines

MAE HONG SON, Thailand — Saw Si Paw Rak Salween guns the wooden fishing boat’s engine and steers along the river that inspired his family name. He is ethnic Karen — his parents migrated from Myanmar’s...

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Studying the world’s largest gathering of forest elephants with sound and field observation

In the far southwest of the Central African Republic, where dense forest gives way to a broad clearing, elephants gather in numbers rarely seen elsewhere. The place is known as Dzanga Bai. Forest elep...

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What the grim outlook for Alpine Ash forests tell us about forestry dogma (commentary)

In March, the Australian Government announced that the Alpine Ash forests of mainland Australia have been listed as an Endangered Ecological Community under national environmental law. The Australian ...

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World’s fattest parrots have mating frenzy

With an adult population of only 236, the kākāpō—the world’s largest parrot—was teetering on the brink extinction. But this year, they have been mating at a record pace, and hatched almost 100 healthy...

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