Environment & Sustainability

In the tropical dry forests of Campeche, Mexico, a tree-planting outpost stands deserted, its future uncertain. Once a hub of reforestation activity, it was abandoned in 2023 after flooding and depleted soil made restoration too expensive. For the NGO behind…

PORTO JOFRE, Brazil — When Oscar de Morais isn’t out tracking jaguars, you’ll find him aboard his houseboat moored along the banks of the São Lourenço River. He sits beneath a mosquito net on two stacked blue plastic chairs, watching…

Sweet, savory, raw, fried or baked. A main course, side dish, dessert or smoothie. Raise a hand: Who doesn’t have at least one fond memory of the world’s most widely consumed fruit, the banana? Maybe it’s because of its shape,…

Officials in Peru last week voted against a proposal to create an Indigenous reserve in the country’s Amazonian region, where isolated tribes face threats from logging, mining and drug trafficking. The decision will likely delay efforts to protect them by…

An estimated 129bn were being used every month around the world at height of pandemic, with no recycling stream The surge in the use of disposable face masks during the Covid pandemic has left a chemical timebomb that could harm…

From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world As two scientists who lived through Australia’s black summer bushfires and the Covid-19 crisis…