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Written by: Kimberly White The Amazonian Siekopai Nation has been granted ownership of their ancestral homeland in a landmark decision by an Ecuadorian appeals court.  After a lengthy legal battle with the Ecuadorian government, an Ecuadorian appeals court has ruled in...

Written by: Kimberly White The Biden-Harris administration has announced a new funding initiative to support disadvantaged and underserved communities on the frontlines of environmental injustice.  The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the Community Change Grants program, providing up to...

Written by: Behzad Hezarkhani, Güven Demirel, Manoj Dora, and Yann Bouchery The world is facing a significant food waste problem, with up to half of all fruit and vegetables lost somewhere along the agricultural food chain. Globally, around 14 percent of food produced is...

Written by: David R. Buys, John J. Green, & Mary Nelson Robertson On Oct. 12, National Farmers’ Day, Americans honor the hardworking people who keep the world fed and clothed. But the farming labor force has a problem: It’s aging rapidly. The average...

Written by: Kimberly White  New Jersey has established its Office of Climate Education, the first of its kind in the United States.  Building on the state's legacy as a pioneer in climate change education, the Office of Climate Education aims to...

Written by: Kimberly White The Australian Government has announced that the inaugural Global Nature Positive Summit will take place in Sydney. The Summit aims to mobilize billions of dollars of funding to repair nature.  Co-hosted by the Australian Government and the...

Written by: Marta Torre-Schaub A little over three years ago, a group of Portuguese youths filed a legal action against 33 European governments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over what they say is a failure to adequately...

Written by: Noam Peleg Climate change is not just an environmental crisis, it’s a human rights crisis. And the humans to be most affected by climate catastrophe are the youngest ones: children. We have seen children directly impacted in the Northern Hemisphere’s unprecedented...

Written by: Johnny Wood The Middle East is synonymous with oil and natural gas, but Oman is championing clean ‘green’ hydrogen as a sustainable fuel of the future. While Oman is currently a fossil-fuel producing country, it also has plentiful rich...

Written by: Kimberly White Millions of Ecuadorians have voted in a landmark referendum to halt oil exploration and development in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Held during the first round...