World

Written by: Kimberly White  New Jersey has established its Office of Climate Education, the first of its kind in the United States.  Building on the state's legacy as a pioneer in climate change education, the Office of Climate Education aims to...

Written by: Kimberly White The Australian Government has announced that the inaugural Global Nature Positive Summit will take place in Sydney. The Summit aims to mobilize billions of dollars of funding to repair nature.  Co-hosted by the Australian Government and the...

Written by: Marta Torre-Schaub A little over three years ago, a group of Portuguese youths filed a legal action against 33 European governments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over what they say is a failure to adequately...

Written by: Noam Peleg Climate change is not just an environmental crisis, it’s a human rights crisis. And the humans to be most affected by climate catastrophe are the youngest ones: children. We have seen children directly impacted in the Northern Hemisphere’s unprecedented...

Written by: Johnny Wood The Middle East is synonymous with oil and natural gas, but Oman is championing clean ‘green’ hydrogen as a sustainable fuel of the future. While Oman is currently a fossil-fuel producing country, it also has plentiful rich...

Written by: Kimberly White Millions of Ecuadorians have voted in a landmark referendum to halt oil exploration and development in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Held during the first round...

Written by: Rabul Sawal In June, Dormaida Sihotang and dozens of other women from Dairi district in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province arrived in Jakarta to plead with authorities to stop a zinc mine, two decades in the making, that could...

Written by: Luis Antonio Ramirez Garcia We have witnessed the rapid transformation of urban spaces over the past few decades due to factors like city development, population growth, and migratory waves. It is projected that by 2050, two-thirds of the...

Written by: Karla Mendes Brazilian authorities announced the seizure of almost 29 tons of shark fins in June, exposing the extent of what they described as illegal fishing in the country. It was apparently the world’s largest confiscation in history:...

Written by: Kimberly White  The City of Austin has called for a global phase-out of fossil fuels and a just transition to renewable energy.  Citing the health and safety risks of fossil fuel expansion, the Texas capital formally endorsed the Fossil...