by Karolina Krakowiak | 18 Nov 2024 | Americas, Environment
As nations gather in Baku for COP29 to fight climate change, a less noticed gathering took place in Colombia to protect the myriad forms of life we might lose. An artist puts the finishing touches on a mural a day ahead of the COP16 United Nations biodiversity...
by Christianez Ratna Kiruba | 10 Oct 2024 | Environment, Health and Wellness, India, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
Online sales of pesticides helps farmers in places far from suppliers. Can we keep them out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them? A person pulls up an online site for buying pesticides. (Illustration by News Decoder) Warning: This article contains...
by Ashley Perl | 7 Oct 2024 | Environment, Europe
Even as different places adapt differently to floods and famine, heat and cold, we have to learn how to cool down our planet together. A resident paddles through a flooded street in Bohumin, Czech Republic, 17 September 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) This article was...
by Garry Lotulung | 24 Sep 2024 | Environment
On the island of Java, climate change has disrupted the traditional weather cycles, leaving residents trying to figure out how to survive months without rain. Desi (27) carries Tiffany, her child while taking water from the only source of water by sucking it up and...
by Enock Wanderema | 22 Jul 2024 | Africa, Environment
Not too long ago, water hyacinth covered Lake Victoria in Africa. People found a tiny bug could help control it. Now farmers see the weed as a resource. Marabou storks sit on a fishing boat surrounded by water hyacinths in the shallow waters in the fishing village of...