Namibia

Local communities opposing lithium mining say the water is more valuable than the mineral used in batteries for smartphones and electric vehicles. Photo credit: Richard Bauer/Dialogo Chino

Articles, Climate Change, Policy & Strategy July 24, 2023

Progressing backwards

“I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong.” Christiana Figueres, the former Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, wrote…

Nature & Environment July 1, 2019

African countries and the state of their environments: the best and the worst

Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Enrico Di Minin, University of Helsinki Social and economic changes in Africa are being driven by increasing prosperity…

The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou

Grand Bayou, LA. At one time, it was a lively community of close-knit families, until they were forced to leave. ©2020. Garde Voir Ci magazine. Nicholls State University Department of Mass Communication.

World Rainforest Day

Rainforests cover only 2 percent of the planet’s surface area but are responsible for more than 25% of all Western medicine and house more than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species.