The legitimacy of the Cop26 climate summit has been called into question by civil society participants who say restrictions on access to negotiations are unprecedented…
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Counter climate summit kicks off as activists lament Cop26 inaction
A counter climate summit kicks off in Glasgow on Sunday amid mounting criticism from activists about greenwashed solutions and stalled action from corporations and rich…
View More Counter climate summit kicks off as activists lament Cop26 inaction‘We are fearful’: Indigenous Mexicans dread new military buildup on ancestral land
Micaela* always stops to kiss a cross at the base of three hills, a lush swath of land in the indigenous ejido of San Sebastián…
View More ‘We are fearful’: Indigenous Mexicans dread new military buildup on ancestral landNew Zealand supreme court blocks seabed mining consent
A New Zealand offshore mining company has lost its supreme court bid to overturn a decision preventing it from mining millions of tonnes of iron-sand…
View More New Zealand supreme court blocks seabed mining consentAn actor, two big bees and a lot of experts: a week spent tackling the planet’s problems
At times in Marseille’s early autumn sun, pre-pandemic life felt tantalisingly close at the world’s largest conservation gathering since Covid began. Scientists presented the latest…
View More An actor, two big bees and a lot of experts: a week spent tackling the planet’s problems‘It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization
Just over 10 years ago, a small group of Indigenous Guatemalan farmers visited Beata Tsosie-Peña’s stucco home in northern New Mexico. In the arid heat,…
View More ‘It could feed the world’: amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonizationReceding glaciers causing rivers to suddenly disappear
As glaciers around the world recede rapidly owing to global warming, some communities are facing a new problem: the sudden disappearance of their rivers. River…
View More Receding glaciers causing rivers to suddenly disappear‘Teeming with biodiversity’: green groups buy Belize forest to protect it ‘in perpetuity’
“These logs are historic,” says Elma Kay, standing in Belize Maya Forest, where she has been doing an inventory of felled trees. “These are the…
View More ‘Teeming with biodiversity’: green groups buy Belize forest to protect it ‘in perpetuity’‘Ecological island’: as Maasai herding lands shrink, so does space for Kenya’s elephants
Kenyan elephants risk a slow extinction in a bleak, ever-shrinking “ecological island” in one of the country’s most picturesque and photographed landscapes, according to a…
View More ‘Ecological island’: as Maasai herding lands shrink, so does space for Kenya’s elephantsSámi reindeer herders file lawsuit against Norway windfarm
Indigenous reindeer herders are bringing a legal action against a proposed wind power project that would be one of the largest in Norway. The Sámi…
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