The global fuel supply has been upended. We give you a range of News Decoder stories on the promise and problems of transitioning to alternative energy. Solar photovoltaic panels. (Photo credit: songqiuju/Getty Images) In Colombia this week, more than 50 nations along...
For Earth Day, we talk to the person who started the annual celebration to begin with. We learn that the best weapon for fighting climate change is education. Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, 6 April 2026, during the Artemis II...
In North India, people are learning to co-exist with an animal that has long terrified them. A Himalayan brown bear at Deosai National Park, Skardu, Pakistan. (Photo by Nadeem Khawar.) This article was produced exclusively for News Decoder’s global news service. It is...
Redwood forests have survived only in the Pacific Northwest. But these carbon suckers will grow almost anywhere with a little land and a lot of love. A path meanders through the Arcata Community Forest in Humboldt County, California. (Credit: Marcy Burstiner)...
On World Wildlife Day, the United Nations asks us to consider all the things we eat to keep us healthy and think: What if they all disappear? World Wildlife Day poster highlights medicinal and aromatic plants. (Courtesy of the United Nations) Each year, 3 March marks...
February 20 is World Day of Social Justice. Around the globe, the majority of people accept that some have less while others have more. How does that play out? A woman holds a sign looking for a job in front of a Gucci store. (Illustration by News Decoder) On 20...
To fight climate change, we can each do more than take the bus instead of drive. Systemic change is spurred when individual shouts becomes a collective outcry. Rachelle Junsay, front right, participates in a youth climate demonstration at the COP30 U.N. Climate...
In Uganda, poachers endanger an already threatened species. Protecting this big animal is no small feat. A hippo in a Ugandan lake. Phote by Noel Reynolds courtesy of Wikimedia. Editor’s note: 15 February will mark World Hippo Day, a commemoration intended to...
Many argue that technology comes with high social and environmental costs. Others say innovation will save our planet. Can both be right? A smart phone sits on a dinner table. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article by student AyanfeOluwa Ayanlade was produced out...
The Himalayan mountains hold the largest concentration of ice and snow outside the polar regions. What happens when all that begins to melt? The Zanskar Mountain Range in Jammu Kashmir. (Photo by Timothy A. Gonsalves courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) This article was...