Amazon’s indigenous call for open dialogue with extractive industry leaders
Indigenous rights leaders from a Catholic Church network traveled to Washington, D.C., to highlight human rights violations against people in the Amazon and to call for prior consultation with...
View ArticleU.S. begins retreat from global climate agreements
A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump seeks to roll back the environmental regulations initiated by the Obama administration in an effort to slow down climate change. It virtually...
View ArticleDrought crisis in East Africa: ‘When the animals die, people do too’
Hussein Dirie stands alone in a village he has known and lived in all his life. Outside of Somaliland’s bustling towns and cities, a pastoralist’s life is destroyed by a drought more unrelenting than...
View ArticleIndia grants glaciers legal personhood in effort to protect them
An Indian court granted Himalayan glaciers status as "legal persons" on Friday in a new conservation strategy that seems to be gathering momentum quickly.
View ArticleCivil society groups demand oversight of metal mining in Haiti
The Haitian government is eager to tap into the country's abundant reserves of precious metals, but civil society organizations say that without adequate oversight, mining operations might do more harm...
View ArticleIndia’s coal plans could ‘single-handedly jeopardize’ Paris Agreement
As President Donald Trump decides in the next few weeks if he will pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, India and China have said the world can look to them to uphold the pact. Although India has...
View ArticleWorld Wildlife Fund under fire for destruction of native lands in Congo Basin
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has won an undesirable award for "greenwashing" after partnering with companies that destroy forests in the Congo without the consent of the tribes that live there.
View ArticleEnergy for all by 2030 will require a fight for access on and off the grid
Bill Gates once made the case for fossil fuels in low-income countries to tackle energy poverty – that is, until clean energy is cheap enough for everyone to afford it. Three years later, solar tariffs...
View ArticleTrump’s decision to break away from climate change agreement not so simple
With his announcement to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accords, President Donald Trump will discover taking such action is neither simple nor immediate. Given that the U.S. is one of the...
View ArticleStudy: Climate change will perpetuate U.S. inequality
Unmitigated climate change will make much of the United States poorer and generally exacerbate rising wealth inequalities, according to a new study. For every one degree Celsius rise in global...
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