For a moment the global quinoa boom enriched Bolivian farmers before collapsing into overproduction, environmental damage, and economic hardship For thousands of years, wind has carried salt from the Bolivian...
How poaching, monopolies, and institutional failure are emptying Europe’s largest wetland If you walk along one of the small ports in the villages of the Danube Delta, you might still...
Under pressure from climate change and overuse, a precious but overlooked resource is at risk of being permanently depleted Life on Earth depends on water, yet preserving this vital resource...
How climate change erodes languages alongside landscapes In a report we came across in Agência Pública, journalist Julia Webster Ayuso (republished from Noema Magazine) investigates how climate change is not only devastating...
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...
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...
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...
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