Environment

Written by: Preety Sharma and Ayeshah Haque This year, organizers of Earth Day are calling for widespread climate education as a critical step in the fight against climate change. A new report, released in time for global attention for Earth Day on April 22, highlights the...

Written by: Ryan Truscott Four species of critically endangered vulture have returned to a park in southern Malawi from which they disappeared more than 20 years ago, and their comeback is credited to the reintroduction of cheetahs, lions and the...

Written by: Kimberly White California is cracking down on plastic pollution. Plastic produce bags are soon to be a thing of the past in the Golden State thanks to a new law. Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a bill into law...

Written by: Grace M. Jaramillo Across the world, climate change disproportionately impacts the lives of girls, yet children are often forgotten in climate policy. I recently led a team of student researchers from the University of British Columbia to better understand...

Written by: Heather Plumpton Reforestation has enormous potential as a cheap and natural way of sucking heat-absorbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and restoring the degraded natural world, while supporting local livelihoods at the same time. But there is more than one way...

Written by: Charles Masquelier, Carolyn Petersen, and Matt Lobley The Burren region of County Clare, Ireland, is famous for its distinctive limestone habitat, coastal landscape, rich wildlife and unusual archaeology. Several hundred farmers also manage livestock on this land. As social scientists, we’ve been...

Written by: Paulo Magalhães Understanding the origin, history, and the reasons behind the approaches of natural assets personification is essential to understand the essence and objectives of new approaches that challenge our perception of the legal concepts of subject, object,...

Written by: Kimberly White  The world’s leading environmental NGOs have called for the adoption of a global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.  Governments will convene in late April for the COP15 UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China,...

Written by: Kimberly White Before the concrete and container ships, when canoes were more common than cars, the New York Harbor was a pristine biodiverse estuary. Once one of the most productive ecosystems in the world, it overflowed with underground...

Courtesy of Landscape News Written by: Ming Chun Tang In pre-COVID times, some half a million tourists would descend on the tiny Thai island of Koh Tao, one of Southeast Asia’s most pristine diving destinations. But that all changed in April, when...