- The MSC ELSA-3 shipwreck, off Kerala’s coast in southern India, spilled oil and plastic pellets, with potential impacts on marine life, coastal ecosystems and fishing livelihoods.
- Gaps in maritime law and weak…
Category: 9. Environment
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Oil and plastic pollution from shipwreck raises concerns, legal scrutiny in India
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Antarctic coalition wins €1m prize for safeguarding a fragile frontier
The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), an advocacy group focused on the world’s coldest and most remote region, has received the 2025 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity….
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Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation (commentary)
- If we want conservation to succeed, we must place cultural and spiritual connections at its core, the authors of a recently published paper argue.
- Drawing on examples from Tajikistan, Belize, South Africa, India,…
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Indigenous Amazonians win landmark ruling against mercury pollution in Colombia
- Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of 30 Indigenous communities in the Amazon, ordering protection measures due to mercury contamination from gold mining that threatens their health, food security…
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Nearly half of tree species in Mexico and Central America threatened with extinction
- Of the more than 4,000 known tree species found only in Mesoamerica, nearly half are threatened with extinction, according a new assessment.
- Agriculture emerges as the primary threat across the region from both…
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What it’s like to live with tigers
MAHARASHTRA — India. In Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district, human-tiger conflict is escalating, with attacks becoming increasingly common. A mix of factors—including the effects of climate change—is driving tigers…
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My city was one of hundreds expecting federal funds to help manage rising heat wave risk – then EPA terminated the grants
In June 2021, a deadly heat wave pushed temperatures to 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) in Spokane, Washington, a northern city near the Idaho border where many homes weren’t built with central air conditioning.
As the heat lingered…
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‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy
When congressional Republicans decided to cut some Biden-era energy subsidies to help fund their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they could have pruned wasteful subsidies while sparing the rest. Instead, they did the reverse. Americans will pay…
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A new data hub helps small-scale fishers adapt to climate change
Roughly 40% of the global fish catch comes from small-scale fisheries. It’s one of the food production systems most vulnerable to climate change, and governments are lacking…
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Youth and women find success in taking climate cases to court
Citizens from around the world are increasingly holding governments and businesses accountable for their greenhouse gas emissions by filing lawsuits that frame climate change…
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