Environment & Sustainability

Learn about climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable living practices. CurioAtlas brings together research and solutions shaping the future of our planet.

Defending the Earth is deadly work. A new report illuminates how much.

Since the 1990’s, Martin Egot has protected his tribe’s ancestral homelands near Nigeria’s Cross River National Park. Egot, who is Indigenous Ekuri, helped establish the Ekuri Initiative, an organization dedicated to protecting parts of the rainforest. In 2009, the Ekuri…

Farmworkers face harsh conditions. Now they’re eyeing a pay cut.

When President Trump campaigned for his second term on the promise of deporting millions of undocumented workers from the United States, farm groups were quick to voice their discontent. An immigration policy focused solely on removing those without legal status…

Communities Around the World Find Plastic Pellets in Their Local Waterways

The International Plastic Pellet Count reveals what volunteers in 29 states and Washington D.C. found. By Lauren Dalban This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called…