Brazil Hopes to Make the Amazon a Model for a Green Economy
“We must ensure that taking care of the forest is more profitable than cutting down the trees.” So declared Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a pitch to…
Warming Waters Challenge Atlantic Salmon, Both Wild and Farmed
Whether roaming wild or enclosed in floating feedlots on the ocean, Atlantic salmon are cold-water fishes. But as the climate crisis warms the world’s oceans and waterways, cold water is…
Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity
The Mekong Delta is under a chemical threat arguably more deadly for the long term than the Agent Orange deployed across it during the Vietnam War half a century ago.…
The Biden Administration Bets Big on ‘Climate Smart’ Agriculture
A new kind of food may soon be arriving on grocery store shelves: climate smart. Under the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, a nascent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this…
The Three Cricketeers: Betting on Bug Food to Help the Planet
For Claire Simons and her husband, Chad, it all started when their son brought home a snickerdoodle made of cricket flour one Earth Day. The cookie was delicious, and the…
How an El Niño-Driven Drought Brought Hunger to Southern Africa
Esnart Chongani boils five small pumpkins over firewood outside her home in Makoka, a village in Zambia’s Chongwe District, not far from the capital, Lusaka. She tests to make sure…
How Indigenous People Are Restoring Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
It was 2016 when Jurandir Jekupe noticed the bees were gone. Their nests were once common in Yvy Porã, the Guarani Mbya village where Jekupe grew up and still lives.…
Eye on the Fertile Crescent: Life Along the Mideast’s Fabled Rivers
PHOTO ESSAY A series of dams and years of conflict have transformed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Kurdish photographer Murat…
In Tanzania, Carbon Offsets Preserve Forests and a Way of Life
Deep in the Rift Valley of East Africa, close to some of the most ancient human remains ever unearthed, one of the continent’s last hunter-gatherer tribes is embracing 21st -century…
On the Mekong, Sand Mining Threatens the River and a Way of Life
Phnom Penh is rapidly developing, but its growth has come at a high cost to villagers who depend on the health of the Mekong River. Filmmaker Andy Ball follows two…