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.

Just over two years ago, Christophe Hodder was selected as the first UN Climate Security and Environmental Advisor to Somalia. Since then, he had spearheaded a...

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...

The war in Ukraine holds a hard lesson about our failure to face up to the climate crisis. We must heed lessons of the recent past and rise up to meet the...

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.

Clearing dangerous military waste saves lives, but the clearing process sometimes damages the environment and leaves communities vulnerable to land grabbing...

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.