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Brazil: “Positive Environmental Strides”

Increase in wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon masks progress on forest protection Source: Tyndall Centre New research shows that Brazil...

Survey to assess the Safety of Environmental Journalists

UNESCO/Sudipta Chakraborty United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in partnership with the...

US: Banks and Fossil Fuel Industry

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Banks Continue to Prop Up the Fossil Fuel Industry The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on...

Breathing kills, even indoors

Source: Nepali Times Household air pollution is a silent killer in Nepal, disproportionately affecting women and children A middle-aged...

Working with nature to protect people

Source: Nepali Times IFRC and WWF join hands to promote nature-based solutions for climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction The...

The role of researchers in climate action

Source: Tyndall Centre If university researchers feel disempowered about climate action what hope is there for everyone else? Commentary...

2023: the warmest year on record globally

Source: Tyndall Centre Globally 2023 was the warmest year in a series stretching back to 1850, according to figures released today by the...

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

by Alberto Sclaverano for Citiplat Since its premiere at the September 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, Daniel Goldhaber’s How...

Eating Our Way to Extinction

by Alberto Sclaverano for Citiplat This ambitious documentary shows the connections between the climate crisis and meat production The...

Climate smart

Source: Nepali Times Ramkali Mahato from Sarlahi in Nepal’s southern plains was only 12 when she got married. “As a daughter-in-law, I...

Women of the mountains

Source: Nepali Times Deputy Director General of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Izabella Koziell...

Fossil CO2 emissions at record high in 2023

Source: Tyndall Center Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have risen again in 2023 – reaching record levels, according to new...

Oxfam report Executive summary

"Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally...

US: Five Factors are Driving Offshore Wind

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Offshore wind has been getting a lot of attention lately—some good, some less good. As in other...

Kiss the Ground

A positive-oriented documentary shows us the potential of regenerative farming By Alberto Sclaverano The film focuses on regenerative...

Lightning identified as the leading cause of wildfires in boreal forests

Source: Tyndall Centre Lightning is the dominant cause of wildfire ignition in boreal forests – areas of global importance for carbon...

Ask a Scientist

Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math Source: Union of Concerned Scientists When I was living in Cleveland in 1969, the shores of...

When the governments fail to tackle crises

Film Review: Geostorm & Co How Hollywood narrative, and our perception, has drastically changed during the last decades by Alberto...

The Year in Corporate Disclosure and Disinformation 2023

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists If 2022 was the year that corporate climate-related financial disclosure jumped out of the...

Film Review: Godzilla

How the decades-old Godzilla franchise has gradually encountered environmental themes by Alberto Sclaverano for Citiplat Ishirō Honda’s...

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