As silky sharks decline, Costa Rica’s dominant trade faces a reckoning
Inside an inspection facility in Hong Kong in 2018, shark biologist Diego Cardeñosa stared at dozens of large white bags. They were stacked, sometimes six or se…
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‘Stay alive’: Brazil’s Indigenous people mobilize to vote for Lula to protect their rights
“It’s such a simple phrase: stay alive! The other side is necropolitics.” This appeal was made by philosopher and prominent Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak to B…
Maldives president arrives in Pakistan for three-day visit
Maldives President Dr Mohamed Muizzu arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday on a three-day visit to Pakistan, according to a statement from his office. Muizzu is visit…
What happens when climate change comes for our favourite sports?
If we can make major sporting events sustainable, then we can meaningfully address climate change The post What happens when climate change comes for our favour…
Mines, telecoms, factories: Will African manufacturers succeed without diesel?
Diesel powers much of Africa’s industrial activity, but rising costs, unreliable supplies and pressure to cut emissions are pushing businesses towards renewable…
Can larger batteries safely power residential buildings? A project in New York aims to show how
A battery system that stores excess energy when it’s plentiful will power an apartment building in Buffalo, New York, when the grid is strained and electricity …
Recycled glass offers a potential new tool to restore a vanishing coastline
Every 100 minutes, the U.S. state of Louisiana loses a soccer field’s worth of land to coastal erosion. It’s a natural process intensified by the acceleration o…
Tourist attractions shut and cattle starving: How El Niño is wreaking havoc around the world
El Niño is combining with climate change to drive extreme weather conditions around the globe.
Q&A: Why a pivotal IPCC meeting in Ethiopia ended in ‘profound disappointment’
Countries have failed – for the sixth time running – to agree on the timeline for publishing the Intergovernmental Panel… The post Q&A: Why a pivotal IPCC meeti…
Brazil election puts unprecedented Indigenous ministry at risk if Flávio Bolsonaro wins
A quick stroke of a pen could erase years of achievements of the country's Indigenous peoples.
Global warming pace accelerating, says climate scientist
LONDON - Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions is accelerating, pushing many of the Earth’s most important ecosystems close to their tipping points, …
EU unveils Arctic strategy to counter increasing Russia, China influence
The European Commission has presented an updated strategy for the Arctic as climate change and rapidly melting ice open up the remote but resource-rich region. …
Six new calves offer hope amid ongoing threats to Cambodia’s Irrawaddy dolphins
Cambodia’s population of critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins has increased to an estimated 118 individuals since the confirmed birth of six calves this yea…
Nigeria’s parks chief stresses conservation gains amid struggle to protect wildlife
Nigeria has scored a significant conservation victory with the closure of a major illegal gold mine near Gashaka-Gumti National Park, the country’s largest nati…
Bank credit remains scarce in Bangladesh where climate risks are highest
For 34-year-old Saiful Gazi — a resident of Ramjannagar Union in Shyamnagar, Satkhira, an area highly vulnerable to climate change — securing institutional fina…
Alberta Overwhelmingly Votes To Stay In Canada In Historic Referendum
Alberta Overwhelmingly Votes To Stay In Canada In Historic Referendum Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, JUST IN: Alberta is set to reject separatism, voti…
Wildfire in Indonesia’s Mount Bromo National Park kills 4 firefighters
MALANG, Indonesia — Four people were killed on Oct. 15 as they fought to contain a wildfire in the east of Java Island at the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park…
‘For Panama, it is life or death’: how drought is choking the canal that feeds a nation
Failed rains and a dire El Niño threaten the waterway that sustains the country, with farmers selling cattle to surviveThe cattle should be ambling, grazing con…
This melting Ron DeSantis statue is a perfect metaphor for climate change
The face of a silver-colored statue of Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis lasted only about 30 minutes in the Florida sun before it melted away to revea…
German Power Supply Startups Exit Market As Wholesale Prices Soar
German Power Supply Startups Exit Market As Wholesale Prices Soar Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice, Two startup electricity retailers in Germany have recen…
Trump vowed to stop an ‘energy emergency.’ Then he created a real one.
The president used executive powers to boost oil and coal, but he can't fix the shortages caused by the Iran war.
In Nepal, AI builds on local knowledge to help prevent tiger attacks
KATHMANDU — Bhadai Tharu says he still remembers the day a tiger attacked him. It was around 1 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2004. The encounter left him blind in his left ey…
Landholders and politicians push for tougher laws on renewable energy developments
Queensland landholders say they are facing challenges amid growth in the renewable energy sector.
Do not be distracted by global crises. Nature cannot wait for a better year – we must act now | Steven Guilbeault
In 2022, I helped push through the international agreement to protect biodiversity. Wars and economic pressures can make nature seem like a ‘nice-to-have’. But …
Energy transition, Africa’s pathway to economic sovereignty
Our countries are dependent on imported fossil fuels. Their volatile prices hold our economies hostage, fluctuating to the whims of foreign invasions, blockades…
Large animals are living carbon stores. Does that make saving them a climate solution?
Great herds of elephants once crisscrossed Africa, and scientists have no doubt that they shaped the landscape, ecosystems and — as recent science has shown — t…
Navigating crisis and opportunity in conservation funding (commentary)
The past two years have been a dramatic period for conservation funding. The greatest attention has focused on the sudden dissolution of USAID in early 2025, as…
Loss of a rare lake reveals how warming has hit the Canadian Arctic’s ‘planetary fridge’
When an ice shelf blocks a polar fjord, it sparks the creation of an ecosystem like no other: the epishelf lake. Meltwater pools up behind the ice shelf, floati…
‘Exceptionally severe’ oil well eruption in Niger raises fears for threatened desert wildlife
An oil well in southern Niger has been spewing crude oil and gas into the air since Sept. 25, damaging nearby installations and raising concerns about the poten…
Report: A Network Of Communists And Muslims Is Fueling France’s Riots
The rioters burning and pillaging cities across France are not led primarily by disgruntled students, as corporate media claim, but rather by a red-green allian…
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