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Opinion: A critical year for finance could shape fairer, more sustainable mining
Five looming decisions in the development finance world could help to mitigate environmental and social risks of transition minerals, write Boston University researchers.
Julie Radomski, Rebecca Ray

India’s environment must be central to its vision of growth

The Green and White Revolutions show that the country can pursue growth in a way that creates gainful employment, offers security and boosts productivity, writes Omair Ahmad.

Omair Ahmad

The glacier crisis is no longer a remote, abstract problem

Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, threatening water, energy and lives across Asia, writes ICIMOD’s Qianggong Zhang on World Glaciers Day

Qianggong Zhang

Mexico’s LNG ambitions face the Trump era and environmental concerns

Recent projects to export US natural gas worldwide via Mexican LNG terminals face uncertainty amid potential trade tensions and community pushbacks.

Emilio Godoy, Patrick Moore

As Pakistan faces pressure on Iran gas pipeline, concerns about energy transition persist

Officials weigh the impact of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline on national energy security amidst mounting US pressure to abandon the plan.

Zofeen Ebrahim

With Scent and Heart: The Story of the Trainer and the "Tiger Dogs" That Track Jaguars to Protect Them

Christian Coyoc Romero, a former hunter turned conservationist, works on the protection of jaguars in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeastern Mexico.

Astrid Arellano

Sol and Luna, the two jaguar cubs rescued from wildlife trafficking in Peru

On February 28, Peruvian police seized two jaguar cubs on the Federico Basadre highway in the central-eastern Amazon of the South American country.

Geraldine Santos

The Peruvian government ratifies economic sanctions against 11 fishing companies for illegal fishing in the Reserva Nacional de Paracas

Lourdes Fernández Calvo

The Council for Appeal of Sanctions (Conas) resolved the 99 appeals against the fines imposed on 11 fishing companies, totaling over 12 million soles (more than 3 million dollars).

International Day of Forests: stories of resistance from the Colombian Amazon to the Argentine Chaco

Gonzalo Ortuño López

Community projects and forest defense initiatives in countries such as Colombia, Chile, and Argentina demonstrate the importance of these ecosystems for the feeding of communities, mainly indigenous ones.

"The impact of extending the deadlines for formalizing mining will be devastating" | INTERVIEW

Geraldine Santos

With just four days left until the end of 2024, the Peruvian government published the law extending the deadline for the process of formalizing the integrated mining activity in small-scale and artisanal mining, known as REINFO.

Warming is accelerating and the 2°C target is "dead," says pioneering scientist

08.02.2025 - Updated 13.02.2025 at 10:00

A new study by James Hansen, the first to sound the alarms of the climate crisis in the 1980s, indicates that the speed of climate change has been underestimated

Sea ice records record melting in February, says Copernicus

07.03.2025 - Updated 12.03.2025 at 10:35

The global extent fell to 16 million km², breaking the minimum record of 2023.

2024 had a record of disasters and deterioration in the main climate indicators

19.03.2025 - Updated 21.03.2025 at 11:02

The WMO report highlights the highest CO2 concentration in the atmosphere in 800,000 years...

In the newsletter: Understand why the government is in such a hurry to release the mouth

17.03.2025 - Updated 21.03.2025 at 11:09

This edition of the fortnightly newsletter brings the behind-the-scenes of Block 59, reactions to the first letter from the president of COP30...

Contag launches book on climate resilience of family agriculture

11.03.2025 - Updated 17.03.2025 at 17:28

Publication marks entity's advancement in the climate change debate; launch will be held on Tuesday (11/3) at the Contag headquarters in Brasília

The glacier crisis is no longer a remote, abstract problem

The war in Ukraine, launched by Russia on February 24, 2022, is not only an act of barbaric aggression and a violation of international treaties but also a factor that has a severe negative impact on the environment and climate.

Arctic Issues

Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, January 2025

In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.

Written by: Bellona

Bellona’s Alexander Nikitin on the unraveling of environmental agreements with Russia

Russia has officially withdrawn from an international environmental agreement that brought to bear billions of dollars from EU nations and the United States on addressing the nuclear legacy of the Soviet Union.

Publish date: 13/02/2025

The IAEA Must Do More To Stand Up to Russia’s Attacks on Nuclear Power Plants

The agency’s reliance on the support and consent of its 178 member states – including Russia – curtail its ability to secure Ukrainian nuclear power plants from Russian attacks.

Written by: Bellona

With Trump’s return, the EU must provide reliable climate leadership

The U.S. election results mean that the EU must take on the global leadership role in climate action and significantly strengthen the defense of Europe’s strategic interests.

Publish date: 12/11/2024

Now more than ever

On June 1st, Berlin's heart transforms once again into a colorful ecological promenade. The 30th Environmental Festival takes place for the 30th time on the street of June 17th at the Brandenburg Gate. Project manager Susanne Dittmar discusses the background and highlights.

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"Our society is not more resilient than the climate or ecosystems"

"We are still in the phase of denial when it comes to recognizing climate change as a problem," says climate researcher and Earth system scientist Wolfgang Lucht. In light of the environmental and justice crisis, he calls for a renewal of democratic society – Part 1 of the interview.

Earth system and society

The ideas of the coalition are expensive, inefficient, and socially unfair

The coalition's plan to reduce electricity prices for everyone is hardly implementable. Reducing grid fees and electricity tax is extremely expensive and inefficient – and is counteracted by the goal of building 20,000 megawatt gas power plants.

A column by Claudia Kemfert

Civil Disobedience plus

Blockade, Occupation, Climate Camp: The action days in Hamburg show that the climate movement is present and capable of action. The alliance "Ende Gelände" for the first time considers vandalism as fundamentally legitimate and thereby changes the debate about forms of action.

by Elena Balthesen

Green electricity at market prices: For whom are dynamic tariffs worthwhile?

Dynamic electricity tariffs pass on price fluctuations in the stock market directly to customers. Households that adjust their consumption behavior can save a lot. One customer group benefits particularly.

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Chile Working Holiday Visa: Easy Guide with Deadlines, Requirements, and All Information for 2025

Applying for the Visa Working Holiday Chile is one of the options available in countries that have a convention with Mexico. If you are not familiar with this type of visa, it allows you to travel to a destination to work and explore the country for 12 months.

By Max O. March 26, 2025 in Mexico

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Visa Working Holiday Colombia 2025: Guide with Deadlines, Requirements, and All Information

If you have heard about the benefits offered by the Visa Working Holiday Colombia, you should know that from Mexico you have the possibility to apply. Every year, there are available slots online for those who wish to apply.

By Max O. March 26, 2025 in Mexico

Only in this state: 100% discount on public transportation with new program

In order to provide economic support to students, the government of a state launched a program that covers all transportation expenses.

By Miriam V., March 23, 2025, in Economics

Mexico exceeds power outages: This turbine deceives the wind and multiplies it

A new way to obtain energy with this turbine that generates up to 5 times more, without the help of the wind, could be what ends the power outages in Mexico.

By Aura N. March 24, 2025 in Energy

There is a floating wall in the middle of the ocean: It is creating an extremely strange effect

A futuristic energy design, through a floating wall, is creating a sensation due to its strange effect and construction.

By Aura N. March 24, 2025 in Energy

Mines, factories… An unprecedented strike against the degradation of public debate

Employees and guardians of the National Public Debate Commission are on strike. In the name of democracy, they protest against the government's desire to withdraw industrial projects from their scope of action.

Updated on March 26, 2025, at 09:42 AM

Why the anti-fast-fashion law is delayed

One year after the unanimous vote on the anti-fast-fashion bill by the deputies, it is still not before the Senate. It was not a priority for the government, and disposable fashion brands tried to slow down the process.

Updated on March 17, 2025, 9:36 AM

Earth Uprisings Sabotage Intensive Flower Farming

In a statement, Les Soulèvements de la Terre relayed the actions of their activists in Finistère who dismantled an irrigation pump at an industrial flower and tulip production facility.

March 27, 2025, 12:39 PM

Submerged cities and vulnerable populations: what the great floods in Brazil in recent years reveal

Grey infrastructure solutions and emergency-oriented solutions predominate, while systemic adaptation strategies remain secondary

March 26, 2025

Environmental Racism, COP and Youth: What is the relationship?

Marcele Oliveira discusses the importance of young people in the environmental agenda, clarifies ways of climate engagement, and unravels how environmental racism projects itself in territories

JÚLIA MENDES · BRUNO ARAUJO · March 26, 2025

Integral Ecology: Church and Civil Society for the Preservation of the Water Sources of Greater São Paulo

Three years after our call for religious participation in the defense of the water sources, disseminated by ((o))eco, the dialogue remains active from the project of the City of Bees

THIAGO LOPES FERRAZ DONNINI · March 25, 2025

Is ‘king coal’ back in South Africa?

Experts say the country can still achieve a just energy transition, despite tensions with the US.

Nkateko Joseph Mabasa

Greater transparency can make fisheries fairer

Maisie Pigeon tells Dialogue Earth how a background in counter-piracy led to her directing the Coalition for Fisheries Transparency

Daniel Cressey

How do China’s green electricity certificates work?

Researcher Zheng Ying explains the guarantees that power in China has been produced from clean sources

Jiang Mengnan

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