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Along the Georgia-Florida border, the vast Okefenokee Swamp is home to alligators, tortoises, otters, and hundreds of fish and bird species.
“There’s rare species there that depend upon that system,” says Rena Ann Peck of the Georgia River...
Written by: Malik Amin Aslam Khan
Plastic waste is a global crisis – one that’s growing more serious every day. Global plastic flows into oceans are expected to triple by 2040. And Pakistan alone produced an estimated 3.9 million tonnes...
Written by: Maia Wikler
It’s nearly 2 in the morning and the sun is just beginning to set as Ben Stevens navigates the braided channels of the Yukon River toward his fish camp. Stevens is a traditional fisherman — Dinyee...
Written by: Kimberly White
Governments from around the globe have joined together to kickstart the end of oil and gas. A landmark alliance of national and subnational governments have committed to phasing out the production of oil and gas.
Initially announced...
Written by: Brian Roewe
Addressing the U.N. climate summit with his pen rather than in person, Pope Francis called on world leaders assembled here to demonstrate "political will" and stop deferring the action required to avert the worst catastrophes of...
Written by: Kimberly White
More than 100 nations have pledged to end deforestation by 2030 in a landmark agreement.
During COP26, leaders from around the globe signed the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, an agreement centered on halting...
Written by: Richard Hodgkins
COP26, which is taking place in Glasgow, is the latest in a series of meetings through which the world’s governments attempt to deal with climate change.
COP stands for “Conference of the Parties”: these 197 parties are...
Written by: Kimberly White
As COP26 revs up, UN Secretary-General António Guterres had a strong message for world leaders: humanity is digging our own grave.
On the second day of COP26, the UN Secretary-General gave a stark address to world leaders,...
Written by: Wesley Morgan
The Pacific Islands are at the frontline of climate change. But as rising seas threaten their very existence, these tiny nation states will not be submerged without a fight.
For decades this group has been the world’s...
Written by: Kimberly White
The UN General Assembly Hall in New York has been taken over by a dinosaur with a message for world leaders: stop making excuses.
Known as Frankie, the dinosaur is part of a newly launched campaign, ‘Don’t...
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