Forests are being revived in India thanks to the will of groups of women who are making a change for their communities and biodiversity.

Much like death, extinction is part of life, an inevitable, natural phenomenon that has occurred cyclically throughout our planet’s history. Approximately 99 per cent of species that have walked the ...

Ecuador’s closed season bans the fishing of certain species for a few months each year, to help stocks recover to more sustainable levels. Ministerial Agreement 070 establishes a bycatch percentage ...

Isatou Ceesay is a 41-year-old social entrepreneur and the Director of the Gambia Women’s Initiative (WIG), based in the village of N’Jau, 681 kilometres (423 miles) away from the Gambian capital ...

Why is sustainable architecture so important? Designing sustainable architecture means taking a few fundamental elements into consideration: orientation, shading and sunlight crated by pre-existing ...

To date, over 1,600 human remains have been excavated from burial grounds across Hokkaido. Rarely engaging with local communities in obtaining their free, prior and informed consent, this has caused ...

Some of the earliest formulations of the idea come from Ancient Greece: South African philosopher David Benatar quotes the Greek tragedian Sophocles and the text of Ecclesiastes in his book Better ...

In 1674, residents of Fiesch, a village in the Swiss canton of Valais at the feet of the Greater Aletsch Glacier – the largest in the European Alps – established a Catholic ritual to ask the heavens ...

How much more CO2 can we emit? Scientists have made different calculations to work out how much of the carbon budget humanity still has at its disposal. A think tank called MCC, using data from the ...

“When thunder, lightning and water come, my grandmother cries gravely. She remembers my mum. When we lose our family, we remember. When it’s windy, we remember everything. When we don’t have our ...

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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) alone produces more than 50 per cent of the world’s cobalt and around 20 per cent of it is extracted by hand through a process known as artisanal and small-scale ...