With business leaders calling on the UK government for a 'green recovery' from Covid-19, it is time to rethink our tax system to make it green at its core. Rather than layering the tax code with…
Kenya has lost 70% of its wildlife in 30 years, but conservancy schemes could halt the decline – and benefit local communities.
Parsaloi Kupai’s home, situated on the edge of Ol Kinyei conservancy…
A soon-to-be-released feature film exemplifies how independent media initiatives can be powerful tools for social and environmental justice organizing.
Pre-pandemic, Australians made great progress on phasing them out – it is possible for the good work to continue.
As Covid-19 restrictions start to ease, we’re unlikely to return to our previous…
Institutional investors managing about $3.7 trillion in assets want Brazil to abandon a proposal they say will add to deforestation and violate the rights of indigenous groups in the Amazon.
We need strong campaigns to confront environmental collapse. Instead, we get weakness and complicity.
Out of this horror comes hope. In the backwash of the pandemic’s first wave, we see the shingled…
Plastic isn't the only human pollutant infiltrating the deepest corners of the ocean.
Two separate studies presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference this week found mercury in fish and…
"I can't breathe." These were among the final words that George Floyd and Eric Garner gasped before their deaths at the hands of white police officers. That plea has become part of the current…
Air pollution and heat exposure linked to negative outcomes
Researchers discover ‘pretty scary health burdens’
More than a decade of overwhelming evidence links air pollution and heat exposure…
Four poachers were arrested this week in connection with the killing of a rare silverback gorilla in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a lush preserve of mist-shrouded hillsides and thick…
More than 2 billion hectares of previously productive land is degraded. For Desertification and Drought Day on June 17, DW spoke with Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of the United Nations…
Australian researchers captured a stunning scene that looks like something out of Finding Nemo. The drone the scientists used recorded approximately 64,000 green turtles migrating near Australia's …
Farmers report devastating losses as poor control measures are blamed for spread of infection across the country
Hundreds of thousands of pigs have been culled by Nigerian farmers in response to an…
To better predict climate change, scientists need accurate models which predict the behavior of many natural processes. One of these is the melting of Arctic sea ice, which requires expensive and…
Unilever has set out new actions to fight climate change, and protect and regenerate nature, to preserve resources for future generations.
Unilever has announced a new set of sustainability…
Leaders from three international NGOs — the United Nations, the World Health Organization and WWF International — teamed up to issue a stark warning that pandemics like the coronavirus are a direct…
MABARHULE, South Africa - When Khimbini Hlongwane spent most of his small safari tour company’s savings on the deposit for a new minibus in February, it seemed like a safe bet.
His revenues had…
Unlovely and unloved, vultures play a vital role as nature’s clean-up squad but are now one of the most threatened groups of birds on the planet.
It’s hard to love vultures. Their bare-headed…