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In Borneo’s dense rainforest, some communities of Punan people still find their medicine among the trees. For generations the forest has been their living pharmacy, with each medicinal plant tied to tradition. But as modern pressures grow, both the forest…
River Action says use of issuance tied to environmental benefits is ‘corporate greenwash on steroids’ Water companies have issued a fifth of the UK’s “green bonds” since 2017, despite a consistently poor record of sewage pollution during that time, research…
Heavy monsoon rains strike across south-east Asia leaving thousands of people without shelter or critical supplies Indonesian and Thai authorities are racing to clear debris and find hundreds of missing people as they said more than 600 people had died…
Hawaiʻi’s new green fee aimed at offsetting tourism’s impact on the environment has caught the eye of the Trump administration, which has grown increasingly hostile to efforts to fight climate change. A U.S. Department of Justice motion to intervene in Cruise…
Use of 8m pounds of antibiotics and antifungals a year leads to superbugs and damages human health, lawsuit claims A new legal petition filed by a dozen public health and farm worker groups demands the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stop…
Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panels Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US. But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for…
The country is one of the top producers of farmed fish in the EU, which has promoted aquaculture as an environmentally sustainable option for food security within the bloc. By Moira Lavelle For Dimitris Kaleantopoulos, the mud is most disconcerting.…
Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of them involved in plastics production. By Dylan Baddour Researchers at Texas Southern University in Houston have analyzed demographic data around…
Hundreds of people still missing after heavy rain and mudslides in country’s deadliest natural disaster for years Entire areas of Sri Lanka’s capital are flooded after a powerful cyclone triggered heavy rains and mudslides across the island, with authorities reporting…
The scores aimed to predict a property’s risk from a fires, floods and storms, but some in the real estate industry as well as homeowners have called them inaccurate.