A group of friends, dismayed about climate change, bought the most degraded piece of farmland they could find. Not to live on, or to make money from, but to transform into the bushland it once was.
Helped by a bold rewilding project, storks are migrating between Britain and North Africa again for the first time in 600 years. How can we make their journey safer?
Illegal gold mining has ravaged the Peruvian Amazon, leaving behind pollution and denuded landscapes. A group of miners are working with a U.S. charity to restore the forest.
An alliance announced at the 2021 U.N. climate summit in Scotland has already allocated $240 million for projects that align increased agricultural productivity with environmental preservation in Brazil. The IFACC, or Financial Innovation for Amazonia, the Cerrado and Chaco, is led by the Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA), The...
French President Macron and Brazilian President Lula da Silva will launch a $1.1 billion green investment plan for the Amazon rainforest.
A recent study published in the journal Nature on 10 April 2024 provides encouraging news for biodiversity conservation in the Congo Basin. Led by Utrecht University in the Netherlands, with the support of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the research highlights the positive impact of...
Salt ponds form a vast mosaic spanning thousands of acres in California's South Bay. But a 50-year transformation is underway.
South Africa’s cabinet approved a phased end to the captive breeding of lions and rhinos as the country seeks to end practices that have sullied its reputation as a custodian of some of the world’s biggest wildlife populations.
Cotuhé: Peru’s largest conservation concession protects nearly half a million acres in Yaguas National Park buffer zone
New limits on forever chemicals in water should reduce PFAS exposure for about 100 million Americans, according to the Environmental Protection Agency
The new regulation is aimed at reducing the risk of cancer for people who live close to plants emitting toxic chemicals.
Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of cyclists.
In a bid to help the recovery of the Yukon River chinook salmon run, the federal government and the State of Alaska have agreed to implement a seven-year moratorium on fishing the species.
It's a contrast to his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, who encouraged development of the Amazon — legal and illegal — and didn't add areas designated as Indigenous lands.
The Interior Department finalized a rule that puts conservation on equal footing with mining, grazing and drilling on public lands across the country.
Despite the current threat from the far-right, Spain is a European pioneer in adopting comprehensive legislation to end gender-based violence
The Cook Labor Government is extending provision of free period products to WA public primary schools, as part of its ongoing commitment to supporting student health and wellbeing.
Through its Investing in Early Years for Human Development Project, the World Bank supported a range of early childhood interventions in Senegal, particularly through the provision of essential nutrition services, benefiting 14 million mothers and children. It helped the government of Senegal to address critical health and...
Immediate action is needed to stem an unprecedented multi-year upsurge in cholera cases worldwide, according to the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision. Actions include investing in access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene, testing and detecting outbreaks quickly, improving quality of and access to...
After a public health campaign of just one year, Egypt has effectively eliminated Hepatitis C, the third leading cause of death in the country.
As of 20 February 2024, all girls aged 12 in Kosovo* are eligible to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for lifelong protection from cervical cancer. To comprehensively roll out the vaccine, Pristina health authorities launched a vaccination campaign at schools aiming to reach over 12 000 girls in 2024; 116 doses...
In a landmark ruling for fundamental freedoms in Colombia, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found that for over two decades the state government harassed, surveilled, and persecuted members of a lawyer’s group that defends human rights defenders, activists, and indigenous people putting the attorneys’ lives at risk.
The Netherlands has the fourth lowest incarceration rate in the WHO European Region – with health policies which strive to provide necessary care to all people living in prisons, leaving no one behind. Currently, the country is taking steps to tackle the major challenge of mental health disorders – the most prevalent health...
India Business News: India plans to transition to living wages by 2025 with ILO's support, exceeding current minimum wage levels. The Code on Wages aims for a universal wa
The World Bank-financed Gambia Essential Health Services Strengthening Project implemented an innovative approach by conducting a simultaneous mass registration of both birth certificates and national health insurance memberships. Between August 1, 2022, and February 28, 2023, more than half of the population was registered and...
