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What Is The True Risk Level For The Great Barrier Reef?
In case you missed it, the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO recently revealed its draft decision to list the Great Barrier Reef as "in danger" — a decision that appeared to shock the Australian...
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A Picturesque, Damning View Of Our Wildfire Planet
Salento, the very southeastern tip of Italy, is a flat and shrubby land of farmers, stunning beaches and simple rural villages built around Baroque churches. Thousands of Italians and foreigners flock...
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Record Drought & Heartbreak: Italy's Farmers Reap The Damages Of Climate Change
CERVERE — It hasn't rained in two months. The corn has not grown. Six out of ten hectares of this plain field are completely parched. "It's late now," says Giovanni Bedino, running his dark fingers...
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Microplastics In Lake Baikal, World’s Largest Freshwater Lake At Risk
MOSCOW — The vast and ancient Lake Baikal in Russia has a rich history, providing a home for thousands of plants and animal species and sustaining the nearby Buryat tribes going back millennia. It's...
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Polluted Pink Lake In Argentina Has Now Turned Red
CHUBUT — Back in July, Argentine authorities had told people in Trelew, in the coastal province of Chubut, not to worry — a local lake that had turned pink, likely by chemicals, would soon be fine...
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Facing Climate Emergency, Africa Must Reinvent Its Cities
-Analysis-Sebha is bound to disappear. The capital of Libya's hydrocarbon-rich Fezzan region has become the largest city in the Sahara. For years, it has seen the convergence of public and private...
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How Global Warming Shriveled Egypt's Mango Production
ISMAILIA – Every year during the month of July, crowds gather in the mango farms of Ismailia, in northeastern Egypt, to pick the delectable summer fruit during its relatively short harvest season. But...
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The Problem With Ixtle, Mexico's Ancestral Solution To Plastic Bags
CARDONAL, MEXICO — Plácido Paloma places a maguey leaf on a log and scrapes it with a long, wide knife. His face and arms strain, but his scraping is efficient and delicate – just enough to remove the...
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What's That Smell? The Perfume Industry's Upcycling Savoir Faire
What do orange peels, a Texas-based sawmill and rosewater have in common? Well, all three are part of the upcycling system developed by the perfume industry. This version of recycling, which...
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A/C And Global Warming: A Northern Call To Embrace Air Conditioning
-Analysis-BERLIN — The maps on TV weather reports were a glowing swathe of red. As the summer heatwave took hold in Germany, the country experienced record temperatures, with the mercury rising to...
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Mexican Youth Turn To Urban Agriculture To Connect With Their Roots
CUAUTITLÁN IZCALLI — Growing up in a concrete city of more than 5 million people, María de Lourdes Félix never thought she would harvest corn and worry about worms.But during the pandemic lockdown in...
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Pakistan's "Monster Monsoon" And The Decade Of Destruction Left In Its Path
THATTA, SINDH — In a hastily put together settlement in the Matka embankment area of Thatta, Leela Mallah, carrying a child on her hip, looks at her new home: pieces of cloth draped over a bamboo...
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On Our Planet's Future, And The "Art Of The Necessary"
-Essay-BOGOTÁ — From Hurricane Ian to Pakistan's catastrophic floods, we have new reminders all the time that the risk of irreparably changing living conditions on the planet is real — and more...
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Switching Off Street Lights? Not The Brightest Solution To Our Energy Crisis
As the leaves fall and an energy crisis looms, countries across Europe are preparing for a winter that will be dark, figuratively and literally. After deciding to switch to cold showers in public...
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Why The Netherlands' Exit From An Obscure Energy Treaty Is Such Big News For...
AMSTERDAM — For many, the big climate story of the week was the two young activists who tossed tomato soup on a Van Gogh painting in London. But the real story with lasting impact was unfolding in the...
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Clean Hydrogen Production In Egypt: A Big Green Step Or More Hot Air?
CAIRO — When it opened in Aswan in 1963, the KIMA fertilizer plant was a clean energy producer ahead of its time. Running entirely off the surge of cheap, hydroelectric power spilling over from the...
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Deny Evidence, Downplay Science: Big Oil Is Following Big Pharma's Legal...
Opioids and fossil fuels might seem like vastly different products. But both were marketed as panaceas for a more comfortable existence. Both have some legitimate uses, though we now know that safer...
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Eyes On U.S. — How White House Climate Action Could Spark A Global Trade War
-Analysis-When the U.S. Congress passed the Biden administration’s landmark "green" spending bill in August, environmentalists around the world saw it as a very strong — and long overdue — step in the...
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Deep Inside The Ecological Devastation Of Mexico’s Avocado Production
ZAPOTLÁN EL GRANDE — Ten minutes away from downtown Ciudad Guzmán, the municipal capital of Zapotlán el Grande, is a small century-old ranch, where fruits and vegetables sprout from the ground and...
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Tracking The Asian Fishing "Armada" That Sucks Up Tons Of Seafood Off...
BUENOS AIRES — The 'floating city' of industrial fishing boats has returned, lighting up a long stretch of the South Atlantic.Recently visible off the coast of southern Argentina, aerial photographs...
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Confronting Climate Change And The Taliban In Afghanistan
This past December, a fleet of colorful swan-shaped boats lined the muddy banks of Qargha Lake, a reservoir on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. The boats’ owner, 50-year-old Shah Maqsoud Habibi,...
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“Who'll Stop The Rain?” Why Climate Anxiety Hits Harder In Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO — Cover the mirrors, turn off all the electrical appliances and call to find out where your child is. Listen to the sirens, the thunder, the roof swaying, and feel the fear of not...
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Droughts To Floods, Italy As Poster Child Of Our Climate Emergency
-Analysis-FAENZA — By now it is undeniable: on the Italian peninsula, the climate crisis is evident in very opposing extreme events (think drought and floods), which occur close together and with...
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Sicily, My Sicily — A Lament From Inside The Inferno
SEGESTA — It's very early in the morning, 7 a.m., when I receive a frantic phone call from my sister in San Vito Lo Capo, in the northwestern part of Sicily, near Trapani. She tells me that a part of...
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Goodbye, Greek Beach? Tourism In The Era Of "Global Boiling"
-Analysis-Thousands of people on the beach. Children reportedly falling off evacuation boats. Panic. People fleeing with the clothes on their backs. It felt like “the end of the world”, according to...
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Crossing Europe, Sans Gas? My Summer Vacation 'Stress Test' For Electric Cars
BERLIN — "Do we really want to do that?" my wife asked. "Nearly 3,000 kilometers across Europe, in an electric car? We've already failed over much shorter distances."She was right about that. But it's...
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Libya Flood, A "Natural" Disaster Made Of Climate Change And Colonialism
-Analysis-If we still haven't come to terms with the climate crisis and the criminal irresponsibility of the Western world, we need look no further than the harrowing images coming from Libya, a...
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India’s Women Are Fighting Air Pollution — And The Patriarchy
MUMBAI — In New Delhi, a city that has topped urban air-pollution charts in recent years, Shakuntala describes a discomfort that has become too familiar. Surrounded by bricks and austere buildings,...
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This Bolivian Solar Plant Is A Clean Energy Boom — And A Bust For Locals Who...
ANCOTANGA — The day Herminda Mamani found out that the president of Bolivia would visit Ancotanga to inaugurate the largest solar energy plant in Bolivia, she remembers feeling proud and happy. Three...
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Why Fishermen Are Taking A Risky Migration Route To Escape Senegal
BARGNY — In this fishing village some thirty kilometers south of Senegal's capital city Dakar, the scene has become almost commonplace. On one October evening, a pirogue several meters long with over...
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