A 'coalition of the willing' to urge the world to drop fossil fuels
A group of 57 nations mostly from the Global South, describing themselves as "coalition of the willing" intent on making the Transition Away From Fossil Fuels, or TAFF, convened in the Colombian city ...
2 Juni 33min
Australia claims it's 'on track' to meet its environment targets. Scientists disagree
Australia is one of 17 "megadiverse" countries that account for 70% of Earth's biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the highest mammalian extinction rate in the world. That makes cons...
26 Maj 42min
The world must address pandemic threats urgently, says former CDC officer
"[The]cruel irony here [is] that the world cannot get its act together to address these threats … people are dying, animals are suffering, we're losing rainforest … these are all interconnected threat...
19 Maj 35min
Protest works, but it needs your help now more than ever, veteran activists say
"We are experiencing what some people call sort of a shutdown of the public square in the United States and around the world," says veteran environmental activist André Carothers. Along with the forme...
12 Maj 51min
A new Netflix documentary captures rare mountain gorilla behavior
"That might be something that you see in a decade, not in two years of filming," Tara Stoinksi, CEO of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, tells me. The behavior she's referring to occurs in mountain gorill...
5 Maj 38min
Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry through reciprocity, not extraction
Forester and scientist Suzanne Simard is well known for her landmark 1997 paper, which demonstrated that two distinct species of trees could share resources. At the time, it turned traditional Western...
28 Apr 41min
Across oceans, seabird flyways gain recognition — and a chance at protection
The routes taken by migratory birds, known as flyways, often cross vast expanses of ocean. Six of these marine flyways have now been formally recognized by the U.N.'s Convention on Migratory Species,...
21 Apr 28min
The coyotes next door: What we get wrong about America's 'song dog'
Coyotes are now present in almost every major urban-metropolitan area in the United States, yet conflicts between the canines and humans are exceptionally low. Between 1960 and 2006, only 146 docume...
14 Apr 44min
