Regaining Progress on Birth Registration Is Critical to Child Protection
Africa, Asia-Pacific, Child Labour, Civil Society, Democracy, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Least Developed Countries, PACIFIC COMMUNITY, Population,...
Weaponizing Food Worsens Starvation
Armed Conflicts, Economy & Trade, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition, Food Sustainability, Food Systems, Global, Headlines, Inequality, Poverty & SDGs, TerraViva...
‘Planet Wreckers’: 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil...
Four wealthy nations—the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade, according to...
MCOMS Brings Apple AirPlay to More Hotel Rooms with MCOMS HOTstream...
"By offering AirPlay through our HOTstream Cast platform,...
G7 summit opens in Canada with a focus on trade, wars...
KANANASKIS, Alberta — When U.S. President Donald Trump last came to Canada for a Group of Seven summit, the enduring image was of him...
Supermarket with Swindon stores announces major change
Morrisons has announced it is closing 18 of its market kitchens, 35 meat and fish counters and 52 in-store cafés as part...
188 Greenberg Traurig Attorneys, 46 Practices Recognized in The Legal 500...
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has 188 attorneys and 46 practices recognized in The Legal 500 United States 2025 edition.
NEW YORK, June 13,...
How bird poachers in Indonesia turned their town into a perch...
A decade ago, when Kelik Suparno heard the Javan blue flycatcher’s melodic whistle, he perked up at the promise of a payday. Knowing a...
Reviving Mangroves at the Edge of Mozambique Channel
Africa, Biodiversity, Civil Society, Climate Action, Climate Change, Conservation, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Europe, Featured, Headlines, Ocean Health, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals,...
Mexico, Spain, East Africa, Awarded For their Ecosystem Restoration Programs
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Four-month-old albatross...
Ads Are No Longer Disrupting — They’re Unlocking
Once upon a primetime, advertising had its place: neatly slotted between soapies on TV or nestled between the pages of your favourite magazine. It...
Ocean Action Boosted in Africa as Biodiversity Leaders Call for Urgent...
Africa, Biodiversity, Climate Change Finance, Climate Change Justice, Conferences, Conservation, Editors' Choice, Environment, Europe, Featured, Global, Headlines, Ocean Health, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United...
Sanlam Group sponsors Africa’s first G20 summit
The Sanlam Group, along with its subsidiaries Sanlam Allianz and Santam, has announced its sponsorship of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit, scheduled to...
Trump hopes to buy rare earths from Africa even as he...
Africa is becoming both a target and a test of President Donald Trump’s root-and-branch remake of America’s foreign policy.The targeting has felt relentless to...
‘Latest Betrayal of Democracy’: Trump Signs Order Blocking CA Effort to...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed multiple Congressional Review Act resolutions that target California's efforts to adopt electric vehicles statewide and phase out...
No country recognizes Somaliland’s independence. Why the US might.
Since the breakaway state of Somaliland declared its independence from Somalia 34 years ago, no country has recognized its sovereignty.That might soon change. The...
How Chinese media ignores the environmental toll of the Belt and...
The Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, one of China's Belt and Road Initiative projects in Kenya. Image from Wikimedia Commons. License CC BY-SA 4.0This article...
Labs ‘central’ to excavation of Wiltshire landmark get investment for new...
The Fort Cumberland Laboratories may be based in Portsmouth, Hampshire, but they have played a significant role in unearthing Wiltshire's rich history.
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Inside the legal fight over the telehealth clinics that help women...
Every month, thousands of women thwart abortion bans in their home states by turning to telehealth clinics willing to prescribe pregnancy-ending drugs online and...
Local content and sport key for the MultiChoice Group in FY24
Results for the financial year 2024 (FY24) show that local content remains a key differentiator for the MultiChoice Group, while Sport also plays a...
Groundbreaking Study Unveils the 528 Frequency as a Universal Constant for...
Groundbreaking Study Unveils the 528 Frequency as a Universal Constant for Healing and Life Extension
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‘Completely Reprehensible’: Trump EPA Attacks Bedrock Power Plant Pollution Rules
Advocates for public health and the planet denounced a Wednesday announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to decimate regulations on power plant pollution,...
In ‘Disservice to the Public’, Trump Fires Content Team for Climate.Gov
In its latest attack on climate science, the Trump administration has fired everyone who produced content for Climate.gov, the public-facing website for the National...
Ocean Summit Wake-Up Call on Plastics Treaty ‘Only Matters If Countries...
Nearly 100 countries at the United Nations Ocean Conference on Tuesday issued a joint declaration demanding a bold global plastics treaty ahead of the...
Beating Plastic Pollution in Our Food Systems
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Kaveh Zahedi is the Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment at...
The surprising resilience of a smiling salamander and some old buried...
Captive-bred axolotls, the salamanders with a big smile, can survive in the wildIt’s an important discovery since axolotls are now found only in Lake...
Waves of Change: From the Glittering Shores of Nice to Struggling...
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Yachts...
Effie Awards South Africa Announces 2025 Jury Panel
Effie South Africa, hosted by the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA), has announced the full jury panel for the 2025 Effie Awards programme,...
This judge grew up with nothing. Now he makes sure that...
To children in this hilltop village, their school library is a portal to another world.Israa Al Trabelsi and five other 9-year-olds barely stifle their...
Their parties were fierce rivals. Now they rule South Africa together.
The Oval Office tête-à-tête between President Donald Trump and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, was off to a rocky start.That morning in May,...
Oceans at Risk: Report Warns Global Fossil Fuel Expansion Threatens Marine...
Biodiversity, Climate Action, Climate Change, Conferences, Conservation, COP30, Economy & Trade, Editors' Choice, Europe, Featured, Global, Headlines, Natural Resources, Ocean Health, Sustainable Development Goals,...
Bridging cultures: How Korean passion is shaping a new generation in...
Chef Thoraya Gamal in South Korea. Photo courtesy of the author.By Fatma Al-Zahraa Badawy
As Korean pop culture continues to gain ground across the Arabic-speaking...
Greenberg Traurig Recognized in Chambers USA 2025 Guide
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has 295 attorneys recognized in the 2025 Chambers USA Guide. The firm is recognized in 65 of the...
Solar Energy Brings Water to Iconic Salvadoran Village of El Mozote
Civil Society, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Energy, Headlines, Human Rights, Integration and Development Brazilian-style, Latin America & the Caribbean, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals,...
Despite Trump-Musk Feud, CO2 Milestone Is the ‘Important News of the...
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere peaked above 430 parts per million in 2025—the highest it has been in millions of years—according...
Girls in Kenya Are Repurposing the Invasive Mathenge Tree Into Furniture
Active Citizens, Africa, Biodiversity, Civil Society, Conservation, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Gender, Headlines, Migration & Refugees, Natural Resources, Sustainable Development Goals,...
Trump revives a travel ban. Could it be legal this time?
Revisiting a landmark policy from his first term, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Wednesday night restricting the ability of nationals from 19 countries...
CIVICUS’ New Leader Speaks on Global Declines in Civic Freedom
Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Crime & Justice, Economy & Trade, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Inequality, Sustainability, TerraViva United Nations ...
Valterra listed on JSE and London SE as Anglo-American restructures
Valterra Platinum Limited has listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on 28 May (share code VAL) and taken a secondary listing on the London...
Analyses Expose Ocean Protection Failures Before UN Summit on ‘Unprecedented Crisis’
Ahead of the third United Nations summit on oceans, scheduled for next week, multiple analyses have highlighted how humanity is failing to address...
Why the World Bank Should Lift Its Outdated Ban on Nuclear...
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Todd Moss is founder...
From barren land to thriving forest: The story of photographer Sebastião...
Bulcão farm, Salgado's family property, in the Vale do Rio Doce region, Minas Gerais, Brazil, before reforestation. Photo by Sebastião Salgado, used with permission.In...
Does Boulder attack on Jews mark new front in ‘war on...
It was getting so hard to talk in Boulder that Hilary Kalisman, a university professor, worried that vitriol over Gaza would end in violence.City...
How Iran has gone from ‘Death to America’ to nuclear talks...
As Iran and the United States negotiate a formula to strictly limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting crushing economic sanctions, their positions...
Africa’s tech comes of age
This week, a Nigerian startup called Terra Industries – led by two 22-year-olds – beat out international competition for a $1.2 million contract to...
Rethinking Digital Platform Design: A Systems Approach
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Credit: MarcoVector/shutterstock.comJun 4 2025 (IPS) - A better internet...
British writer Bernardine Evaristo receives accolade for breaking literary boundaries
LONDON -- LONDON (AP) — Bernardine Evaristo doesn't like boundaries.For the Booker Prize -winning novelist, rules about genre, grammar or what a working-class biracial...
The importance of mangroves in addressing climate change in Ghana
Mangrove forest in Ada, Ghana. Image by Amuzujoe on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).This story was written by Malachi Dorwu and originally published by iWatch Africa on May...
The benefits of living with bears and letting nature take its...
In Latin America, 13 countries either gained tree coverage or halted losses between 2015 and 2023Monitoring forest restoration in Latin America has until now...
Trump Administration Uses Emergency Power to Rescue Another Dying Fossil Fuel...
Consumers are set to foot the bill after the Trump administration intervened late last week to prevent the closure of the fossil fuel-powered Eddystone...
In Uganda, an affordable alternative to dirt floors is a big...
JINJA, Uganda -- Simon Tigawalana dreamed for years of doing something about the dirt floors in his small house, blaming them for making his...
A group of volunteers in Madagascar is dedicated to preserving their...
The largest lake in Tarasaotra Park. Photo by author, RADIFERA Miora Stéphanie, used with permission.One day in February, I chanced upon a Facebook post...
Actor Valerie Mahaffey, ‘Northern Exposure’ Emmy winner, dies after cancer battle
LOS ANGELES — Celebrated actor Valerie Mahaffey, whose stage, film and television work ranged from Shakespeare to the hit 1990s series "Northern Exposure," died...
‘It was the cow that built your school’: Mama Anna’s grassroots...
Mama Anna at her home in Mulala village, balancing a bunch of bananas on her head as she welcomes visitors. Photo by Sydney Leigh...
Old Town Arts Festival returns: Here’s all the events you shouldn’t...
The Old Town Arts Festival had been a key event on Swindon's calendar for more than 24 years, but it was...
Islamic Relief South Africa Supports Thandokwethu Primary School
Islamic Relief South Africa (IRSA), in partnership with Islamic Relief Canada, has supported Thandokwethu Primary School in the community of Dududu, on the South...
Climate TRACE Releases March 2025 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
Global greenhouse gas emissions for the month of March 2025 totaled 5.29 billion tonnes CO2e. For all updates to Climate TRACE country-, state-, city-,...
Swiss Glacier Collapse That Buried Village Likely a ‘Direct Result of...
Thawing permafrost exacerbated by human-caused global heating is the likely culprit behind a massive glacier collapse that buried nearly the entire Swiss town of...
Woman Files First Climate-Related Wrongful Death Suit Against Fossil Fuel Companies
Two years after legal scholars wrote in the Harvard Environmental Law Review that fossil fuel companies could feasibly be charged with homicide in...
War in Gaza asks Israelis what kind of state they want
A “diplomatic tsunami” is how one Israeli newspaper has dubbed intensifying criticism from Israel’s Western allies of its latest military attacks – and the...
Youth Sue Over Trump Executive Orders That ‘Escalate’ Climate Crisis
Nearly two dozen American children and young adults sued U.S. President Donald Trump, leaders in his administration, and various agencies in federal court on...
African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 DRC Cobalt
African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 to Unpack the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Cobalt Market Prospects, Global SignificanceAfrican Mining Week takes place from...
Climate Justice Movement in Nigeria to Tackle Oil Polluters Launched
Active Citizens, Africa, Civil Society, Climate Change Justice, Development & Aid, Disaster Management, Economy & Trade, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Sustainable Development Goals,...
Climate Justice Movement in Nigeria to Tackle Oil Polluters Launched
Active Citizens, Africa, Civil Society, Climate Change Justice, Development & Aid, Disaster Management, Economy & Trade, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Sustainable Development Goals,...
Climate Justice Movement in Nigeria to Tackle Oil Polluters Launched
Active Citizens, Africa, Civil Society, Climate Change Justice, Development & Aid, Disaster Management, Economy & Trade, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Sustainable Development Goals,...
Driven by Groundwater Depletion, Colorado River Basin Has Lost Equivalent of...
The authors of a new study on water loss in the Colorado River Basin say "large-scale industrial farming" is closely tied to a major...
As food trickles into Gaza, UN calls US-Israeli plan ‘vastly insufficient’
Even amid Israel’s intensified military operations in Gaza, and the ever-evolving displacement of the enclave’s Palestinian residents, another Israel-Hamas war flash point has come...
German Court Tosses Farmer’s Case But Climate Groups Cheer ‘Remarkable Precedent’
After a decade of legal proceedings, a German court on Wednesday dismissed a Peruvian farmer's case against energy giant RWE, but both he and...
SPAR Launches Campaign for Menstrual Hygiene Day
SPAR South Africa has launched a practical national campaign to help women have access to affordable hygiene products. SPAR says about seven million South...
‘Shocking’: UN Report Shows Small Chance of Breaching 2°C of Warming...
A World Meteorological Organization report released Wednesday predicts there's a small chance that the average global temperature will exceed 2°C of warming above the...
Polish Border Wall Puts Local Tatars on the Brink
Europe, Headlines, Human Rights, Migration & Refugees, TerraViva United Nations Migration & Refugees
The interior of the Kruszyniany mosque, located in one of Poland’s two...
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030: A Global Blueprint for Inclusive Growth and ConnectivityBy Shayne Heffernan
When a nation commits to a vision that transcends borders, it...
How to plant a city tree, and where timber beats steel...
The “Stockholm tree pit” nurtures urban forestsUsing more breathable materials reduces the need for irrigation and increases tree survival.The design, pioneered in Sweden, involves...