A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the country’s native forests, many of which face extinction ... She didn’t eat or sleep for the duration of the hug.
This perpetual fog is great for the orchard crops but not so good for the mind ...Lucy sang a duet and told jokes with her adorable husband, Laurence Luckenbill ... ShannaLong is a fourth-generation journalist and former editor of the Corning Observer ... ....
The European Parliament voted on Dec. 17 to delay a key antideforestation regulation that was adopted in 2023 and originally supposed to be implemented at the end of 2024 ... 31, 2020. That requirement includes submitting geolocalized data.
Narcotrafficking gangs operating out of Manabí, a coastal province of Ecuador, are also involved in trafficking shark fins alongside their drug operations, according to a recent investigation by Ecuadorian news agency Código Vidrio.
Indigenous and rural communities in Ecuador’s Amazon have condemned an international arbitration ruling that ordered Ecuador to pay more than $220 million to U.S. oil giant Chevron... “It is neither appropriate nor fair.
We’ve been busy over here at the farm bureau. It all started two weeks ago when I received a call from Bill Borror, one of two Farm Bureau representatives who sit on the Demand Management working group ...Stay tuned and have a safe weekend ....
Five out of 10 lakes in the central Amazon had daytime temperatures over 37° Celsius, (98.6° Fahrenheit) during the region’s 2023 extreme heat wave, a recent study found ... “You can’t even put a finger in the water ...Image courtesy of Miguel Monteiro.
Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts of the Amazon Rainforest in northwestern Brazil ... On Dec.
At least 1,400 people have died as a result of flooding and landslides across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, with many more still missing.
Brazil’s lawmakers have voted, by an overwhelming majority, to weaken the nation’s environmental licensing system, overturning key protections that Brazilian PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva had vetoed earlier this year ... In a Nov.
This article, originally published by Pacific Forum, is republished with permission ... Latest stories ... Rob York (rob@pacforum.org) is director for regional affairs and Shanna Khayat (shanna@pacforum.org) is director of communications at Pacific Forum.
One small Indigenous territory is currently the site of roughly 70% of deforestation in Indigenous territories across the Brazilian Amazon due to illegal mining over the last two years, according to government data.