By almost every objective indicator, the process of dramatic climate change grinds on. However, the optimists are currently making a big deal out of...
Reimagining Environmental Journalism / Rhett Butler
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Restoring our planet
Webinar: Seeking a Better Future for the Amazon and the Congo
Join us on December 9 at 10:00 a.m. EST / 4:00 p.m. CET for a webinar led by Sam Muller featuring Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka and Dr. Fernando...
Rinsing and Repeating Our Way to Climate Disaster? Is There a Better Way?/ Linwood Pendleton
Thirty years ago, the United Nations challenged the political leaders of the world to do something about global warming. The politicians responded...
Can The Rainforests Be Saved?
If you were asked to list the hottest hot spots on the planet—the places whose ecological integrity seem to be critical to life as we know it—your...
A River Runs Through It / Jaap van der Waarde
The Congo River Basin includes six countries and covers approximately 3.7 million square kilometers, making it the world's second-largest rainforest...
Can Profit Help Save the Rainforest? / Tânia Trindade
Global meetings on climate change almost always turn on two factors: political will and money. Even when the will is present, the money is not—and...
Has the Amazon Run Out of Chances? / Francisco (Pacho) von Hildebrand
In 2019, Carlos Nobre, a leading Brazilian scientist, published an open letter entitled "Amazon tipping point: Last chance for action.” If that...
Can the Amazon Be Saved? / Fernando Trujillo
What happens in the Amazon is of planetary consequence. Its rainforests influence weather and rainfall around the world. Its rivers account for 1/4...
Arctic Heat / Tero Mustonen
That the Arctic is warming is not exactly breaking news on a planet where almost everywhere is warming. But it is critical news that the Arctic is...