The European Union has passed its first legislation to combat violence against women. The law requires all EU countries to criminalize female genital mutilation, forced marriage and online harassment.
Years of pressure by those fined for urinating in street due to lack of facilities pays off with €4m plans
Councillor in Arnhem says existing system to resolve issues caused by debt costs billions and isn’t working
The deal will help the tribe raise money for infrastructure and services for its members while the water could ease the drought in the Southwest.
New Hampshire could become the thirteenth state to ban child marriage in the United States.
As Tucson gets hotter and hotter, creating more shade in its most vulnerable neighborhoods is making a vital difference.
Berlin's first drug-checking service launched last year, and demand is high. Now the data is being shared with the KnowDrugs app, which informs users about the latest drug-checking results in Germany and beyond.
A big pink truck cruised the streets of the Southwest this spring with stops in New Mexico, distributing over 10,000 books to the Navajo Nation to help improve literacy and support Indigenous writers.
A legacy of land theft thwarts most tribes' efforts to restore wild buffalo. Wind River Indian Reservation has crafted a unique solution.
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.