• photo of oxen and a man with a plow in the tropicsCuba Verde
    Will the long-isolated island’s low-carbon adaptations endure?
    By Bill Weinberg
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    Venezuela’s decision to open up the Orinoco Belt to mining threatens the Amazon rainforest.
    By Bram Ebus
  • photo of oily mud and waterPachamama’s Blood
    Ecuador’s Sápara people are developing strategies to fend off the dual threats of oil development and climate change.
    By Gleb Raygorodetsky
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Latest News

9-Year-Old Calls on Kids to Speak Up for Parks

Robbie Bond wants to inspire America’s youth to save our public lands

by Julia Travers – October 19, 2017

Robbie Bond is an eloquent, friendly, and passionate conservationist who founded a nonprofit in order to advocate for the preservation of national monuments and parks. He’s also 9 years old. Through his organization, Kids Speak for Parks, he and his parents cultivate…
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Murder of Retired Couple Chills Fellow Environmental Activists in Turkey

Killing of two advocates who successfully campaigned to shut down marble mine stokes fear that others will kill to protect profits

by The Guardian – October 18, 2017

Cedar branches whisper in the Anatolian breeze. Twigs crunch underfoot. A truck rumbles from a distant marble quarry. The crack of a hunter’s rifle echoes through the forest. The sounds of tranquility and violence intermingle at the remote hillside home of Aysin…
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Governments Need to Take A Hard Stand Against Illegal Fishing Industry

Recent shark hunts by China-based company highlights need for independent monitoring by NGOs, says Sea Shepherd activist

by Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec – October 17, 2017

In Timor Leste law, a small country in Southeast Asia that achieved its independence from Indonesia in 2002, shark hunting is illegal, but that didn't prevent a China- based company from sending vessels out to the country's waters recently to illegally catch…
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Planned Rail Line Would Intersect Kenya’s Nairobi National Park

Conservationists worried Chinese-backed project will threaten safety of wildlife, integrity of ecosystem

by Kari Mutu – October 16, 2017

Nairobi National Park has become the focal point of a conflict between national development priorities and environmental conservation in Kenya. Established in 1946, this 117-square-kilometer wilderness area is the oldest state park in Kenya, and home to incredible biodiversity. Animals such as…
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In Conversation with Cascadia’s Shannon Wilson

Veteran forest defender discusses 30 years of ecosystem advocacy

by Josh Schlossberg – October 13, 2017

Forests store and sequester mind-boggling quantities of carbon, making forest protection one of the most effective (and simplest) actions we can take to buffer our planet against the ravages of climate change — a fact that “ecosystem advocate” Shannon Wilson is well…
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Development Banks Continue to Sink Billions into Fossil Fuel Projects

Public financing for oil and gas estimated at $9 billion in 2016 fiscal year alone, much of it after Paris Agreement

by Allison Lee – October 12, 2017

In the last year alone, vulnerable populations have suffered massive damage from the impacts of a changing climate. “Super hurricanes” have torn through the Caribbean — turbocharged by abnormally warm waters — making islands uninhabitable. Flooding, mudslides, wildfires, and avalanches have hit…
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Voices

Mustafa Ali
The former head of the EPA’s environmental justice office talks openly about why he left the position and how – despite the current political climate – he’s hopeful about the future.
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Ted Lieu
The California Congressman writes about the power of natural places and the need for robust climate action at the federal level.
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Current Issue

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Heavy Metal

The debate about how to reduce use of lead ammunition is heating up in Oregon.
By James Yuskavitch

An Unraveling Web

Along the California coast, a race to save marine mammals from a life-threatening toxin.
By Jeremy Miller

De-Junking Paradise

A province of Vanuatu is turning to local, organic food in an effort to stave off diet-related illness.
By Anna Lappé

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