It has been more than one year since the gavel came down at the last UN biodiversity summit, where almost every country in the world agreed on a plan to protect...

The Van Gujjars – a pastoralist community in the Indian state of Uttarakhand – are on the frontline of climate change, but their role in forest management is...

The EU’s law to restore nature was recently given the green light by the European parliament. The long-awaited “nature restoration” law aims to repair the EU’s...

The hard-fought resolution, which was proposed by Ukraine, is the assembly’s third and potentially most impactful text on the environmental dimensions of armed...

Several countries are expanding laws and penal codes to target illegal activities that degrade nature, but many gaps remain

People and animals are faced with emergency in one of the planet’s most water-rich regions, as impacts of El Niño, Atlantic warming and deforestation collide

The unprotected southern portion of the Chapada Diamantina mountain range, in the state of Bahia, is in the crosshairs of mining operations, remaining...

As leaders gather in Colombia, we look at some of the biggest challenges currently facing Indigenous peoples across Amazon nations.

Numerous global reforestation efforts are underway, but research suggests getting long-term benefits is harder than it looks, and some projects can do more harm...

The new report, published today by the OSCE and adelphi, assesses climate-related security risks in the Shar/Šara Mountains and Korab Massif area and finds the...

An updated guide to the intergovernmental negotiations taking place in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada, that have a crucial role to play in halting...

Governments “protect” wildlife from the very people who have conserved it for centuries, while allocating mining concessions in the same areas.

The military takeover in Myanmar has put a halt to many environmental programmes that were starting to produce results.

Since the 1990s, Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been undergoing successful landscape restoration, helping provide food security and other ecosystem services...

In this article, the authors examine the links between deforestation and security, charting a way forward for policymakers, law enforcement and the multilateral...

The destruction of nature and the world’s ecosystems presents an unprecedented challenge for humanity. With one million species on the brink of extinction – the...

New in-depth study identifies worsening spiral of environmental destruction and violence since 2016 peace treaty between government and FARC.

Were it better protected, the region’s massive natural capital could generate short-term economic benefits as well as long-term growth opportunities, experts...

Conservation areas can themselves be a source of conflict and we must bear that in mind when advocating for their protection in war.

In this report, Eoghan Darbyshire assesses the current state of forest loss in conflict areas, surveying the changes and hotspots in the past 15 months during...