Climate & Environment

Following the Flowers in Yemen

A journalist follows Yemen’s nomadic beekeepers as they hold the pressures of climate, deforestation and war at bay Recommended by: Abdirahim Saeed The thorny Sidr tree, scattered throughout Yemen, is...

N’Djamena: Searching for gas in the Chadian capital

An ecological ban on firewood has ignited a desperate daily pilgrimage. When cooking a warm meal requires scouring the city for scarce butane, survival hangs in the balance....

Is another kind of livestock farming possible?

How a Brazilian farm operating on land seized by the Movement of Landless Workers in the 1990s is pointing the way to an alternative to modern industrial-scale livestock farming. When...

Canute’s Comeuppance

The anniversary of a historic Danish flood provokes a journey into history, maps, climate and the future Humanity has long struggled with the question of how much it is master...

When a river becomes forbidden

As Thailand’s Salween River joins a growing list of contaminated waterways in the country, a new investigation asks why the state keeps managing damage, while refusing to confront its source...

Warm waters, closing nets

How climate change is driving dolphins into deadly contact with fishing fleets in the Bay of Biscay In this article for the French daily newspaper Libération, journalist Julie Renson Miquel reports...

The fires we don’t see

While LA burned this January, fires at the other end of the Americas have fed a long-running political battle in Patagonia In January 2025, the Anglosphere was transfixed by the...

Ursa major

An investigative report into Europe’s growing bear population and how it is being (mis)managed Most Europeans – particularly in western Europe – have never seen a bear in the wild....

Tracking Temu

A Swedish newspaper uncovers the dystopian world of Temu and Shein returns – with photographs Colin Huang, a 44-year-old former Google engineer and graduate of the University of Wisconsin is...

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