Sam Is Now A Major Hurricane, But Isn’t Likely To Hit Land
From NPR Hurricane Sam was located about 630 miles off the coast of French Guiana on Saturday. There’s a slight chance it would hit Bermuda, but modeling currently shows it’s…
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In Colombia, legal mining proves a win-win for environment, traditional communities
BOGOTÁ — In Colombia’s Chocó department, renowned by environmentalists for its abundant biodiversity, Afro-Colombian communities collect gold from rivers as part of an ancestral way of life. “When we talk…
Can green energy power Africa’s future?
From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image source, Getty Images While much of the world is looking at how it can use more green energy and cut C02 emissions…
Climate change: Whisper it cautiously… there’s been progress in run up to COP26
From BBC Shareclose Share pageCopy linkAbout sharing image source, Reuters With just five weeks left until world leaders gather in Glasgow for a critical climate summit, the BBC’s Matt McGrath…
Bezos, Bloomberg among donors committing $5b to expand protected areas
A group of philanthropic organizations has come together to pledge $5 billion for the creation and expansion of protected areas across the planet, one of the largest private investments ever…
Overfishing threatens to wipe out bowmouth guitarfish in Indonesia, study says
BOGOR, Indonesia — The population of the nearly extinct bowmouth guitarfish in Indonesia is being depleted by overfishing, according to a recent study that calls for a reduction in its…
Links to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers
JAKARTA — Consumer goods behemoths such as Unilever, PepsiCo and Nestlé that buy palm oil from Indonesia may be exposed to the environmental and social fallout from a seemingly unrelated…
Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia
They say you should never smile at a crocodile. But that’s exactly what happened on Sept. 9 when a team of researchers discovered a group of eight Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus…
Causes for celebration, and concern, on World Gorilla Day
September 24 marks World Gorilla Day, set aside to celebrate these threatened giants of the forest as well as to renew calls for action to protect them. All gorilla species…
Philippine-UK comic anthology looks to incite action on climate change
2020 will forever be remembered as the year a global pandemic brought the world to its knees. But at the rate the planet’s temperature is rising, forever might not be…