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BANGKOK — A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, including major tributaries of the Mekong, Southeast Asia’s longest river, heightening concerns about contamination of waterways that sustain local…
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BELÉM, Brazil — Brazil promoted COP30 as both the “Indigenous COP” and the “Amazonian COP,” a summit that would finally center the peoples who have protected the rainforest for millennia. Belém, the host city on the mouth of the Amazon…
Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries From the slopes above Pahalgam, the Kolahoi glacier is visible as a thinning, rumpled ribbon of…
In the Ozarks, the growing college town of Fayetteville, Ark., is using clean energy to power city facilities and embracing nature-based solutions to climate threats.
GPS collars on cattle are letting ranchers remove fences in the West. That’s good for wildlife and for the land.
Their dams cause floods, and that gets them in trouble with humans. But in the right place, more water can be a big help.
A “green glacier” of trees is steadily taking over native grasslands. Landowners are banding together to treat the problem with fire.
The state has become a hub of innovation for creating electricity using geothermal power. Just don’t call it renewable.
South32’s Hermosa, the first mine in a fast-tracked permitting program, discharged water with levels of a heavy metal that required alerting the state, but neighbors learned about the issue from local watchdogs. By Wyatt Myskow A proposed critical minerals mine…