Seven grassroots environmental activists were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 29. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize,” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the six continental regions. This year’s winners include two Indigenous activists who stopped destructive seismic testing for oil and gas off the...
Agriculture minister says the ‘live sheep export industry has shown time and again that they are unable to meet the community’s expectations’
A significant step towards marine conservation, the creation of the Mar Tropical de Grau National Reserve, one of the world's most critical areas for preserving marine biodiversity.
Blue whales are fascinating animals. At 24–30 meters in length (longer than a basketball court) they are the largest creatures on Earth. They are also among the rarest. Estimates suggest that there are only about 5,000 to 15,000 blue whales left in the world.
Marine scientists estimate that there may be many times more fin whales than thought in the Southern Ocean.
The tiny island's success shows that once invasive predators are eliminated, birds will swoop back in on their own.
The hake population in the waters of Northwestern Europe has recovered spectacularly over the past 20 years. What's behind this remarkable rebound and how might this success story be repeated elsewhere? #Ocean
New commitment will help vaccinate 370 million children against polio every year over five years, preventing paralysis and even death, and strengthen health systems to achieve and sustain a polio-free world.
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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.
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.
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.
The Interior Department finalized a rule that puts conservation on equal footing with mining, grazing and drilling on public lands across the country.
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.
After a public health campaign of just one year, Egypt has effectively eliminated Hepatitis C, the third leading cause of death in the country.
In a landmark ruling for fundamental freedoms in Colombia, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found that for over two decades the state government harassed, surveilled, and persecuted members of a lawyer’s group that defends human rights defenders, activists, and indigenous people putting the attorneys’ lives at risk.
The World Bank-financed Gambia Essential Health Services Strengthening Project implemented an innovative approach by conducting a simultaneous mass registration of both birth certificates and national health insurance memberships. Between August 1, 2022, and February 28, 2023, more than half of the population was registered and...
