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What starts in the Amazon doesn’t stay there: Fires melting Andes glaciers

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Glenn Scherer | 0 Comments

The Zongo Glacier, analyzed in this study, sits atop Bolivia’s Huanya Potosi Mountain. Image in the Public Domain. Fires in the Amazon may be melting Andean mountain glaciers at an…

New York State pension fund puts 27 coal companies under review

Posted on January 29, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

BOSTON (Reuters) - New York state’s top pension fund official said it was reviewing whether to divest from 27 coal companies and could make decisions on $98 million in holdings…

Habitat loss, climate change make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda

Posted on January 29, 2020 by terna gyuse | 0 Comments

MASAKA, Uganda — “The harvest season was good when the forests were not yet cut down, but now they don’t have any food,” says John Mulindwa, 58, sitting behind a…

Indonesia's forestry ministry ends WWF partnership over fire row

Posted on January 29, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia’s environment and forestry ministry said on Wednesday it ended a 25-year conservation agreement with the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) because the group let a…

Young farmers apply ancient agroforestry practices in the heart of Sardinia

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Erik Hoffner | 0 Comments

DESULO, Italy — In a late 1990s photo, a little girl with a ponytail and white apron poses at the corner of a cheese-making machine. Two decades later, with the…

Kazakhstan halts contaminated oil from spreading outside country

Posted on January 29, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kazakhstan has contained the spread of contaminated oil within its borders by reducing exports to China and altering the schedule of supplies to domestic refineries, energy ministry…

German cabinet backs exit from coal power by 2038 at latest

Posted on January 29, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cabinet on Wednesday backed plans to exit coal as an energy source by 2038 at the latest as part of Berlin’s efforts on climate protection,…

German cabinet backs exit from coal power by 2038 at latest

Posted on January 29, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German cabinet on Wednesday backed plans to exit coal as an energy source by 2038 at the latest as part of Berlin’s efforts on climate protection,…

Despite foreign aid, Colombia struggles to rein in Amazon deforestation

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Genevieve Belmaker | 0 Comments

Three European countries have put up $366 million in foreign aid to fight deforestation in Colombia’s Amazon. The region’s rate of forest loss remains stubbornly high, up 97% since the…

Hunger, fear and death: an Ethiopian migrant family's story

Posted on January 29, 2020 by EnviroLink Editor | 0 Comments

TULI GULED, Ethiopia (Reuters) - First, drought in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region destroyed Asha Khalif Ali’s crops and animals. Then her husband and brother were killed in ethnic violence. She fled…