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Can Argentina still deliver on its climate plans under Milei?
The issue of climate change, and Argentina’s commitments related to it, have seemed to sit uncomfortably with the government of far-right president Javier Milei since it entered office last December....
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China’s push into deep-sea mining gathers speed
Every year since 2020, Fan Zhihan has made a two-week voyage to a deep-sea mining site in the Pacific Ocean. “The whole trip usually lasts about 60 days,” says Fan, who is based at the College of...
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Environmental litigation in Latam and Caribbean bolstered by Escazú treaty
It has been over a decade since talks began over the Escazú Agreement, Latin America and the Caribbean’s landmark environmental treaty that seeks to improve access to information, address widespread...
View ArticleReporting climate change in Africa: A free six-part course
Africa stands at the epicentre of the global climate crisis. Its 1.2 billion citizens urgently need reliable information and accessible discussion on the crisis and the continent’s response. African...
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Africa expands efforts to fight nature crime across borders
Tackling nature crime in Africa – and globally – is a major challenge. A big factor is that many of these are cross-border crimes, which need the kind of international cooperation and information...
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Q&A: ‘The window of opportunity is there, but closes a little every day’
Colombia will host the United Nations’ biodiversity summit, COP16, from 21 October to 1 November. In the south-western city of Cali, 196 countries will seek to advance the implementation of the...
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Unexploded ordnance has become an ocean time bomb
So many second world war ships and planes were sunk around Savo Island in months of conflict between the US and Japan, that this stretch of the Pacific Ocean earned the new name Iron Bottom Sound....
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Heat and rain punish Karachi’s homeless
For Mithu, 30, and the twenty members of his extended family, home is beneath the KPT Interchange Flyover in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city of 20 million. They migrated from Tando Allahyar, 200...
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Energy storage is a challenge and an opportunity for Chile
Renewable energy is Latin America’s present and future. In 2023, the region generated 64% of its electricity from clean sources, far above the global average of 39%. As production continues to ramp...
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On the Paraná River, ecological crisis is a threat to its identity
For 45 years, Julián “El Negro” Aguilar has been fishing in the brown, silty waters of the Paraná, the river which crosses part of the Southern Cone, creating life and beauty in its wake. “We have the...
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Q&A: ‘Twenty years ago, Chileans had no idea we have whales’
Chile has shown major commitment to the protection of its seas in recent years, trebling its marine protected areas between 2010 and 2020 to cover 43% of its ocean surface, and being one of the first...
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Indonesia’s EV ambitions highlight urgent battery recycling challenges
Komang Ratih recently bought her 10-year-old son an electric moped so he could ride to school independently. They live on the Indonesian island of Bali, where electric vehicles are becoming...
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Brazil and Colombia: The emerging powers of offshore wind?
The development of offshore wind energy is entering a defining moment in Latin America, following years of expectation that have raised hopes for the energy source, but which have yet to result in a...
View ArticleLeveraging climate finance in Nepal
As global temperatures rise, Nepal is increasingly vulnerable to climate-related disasters. Events like this month’s Glacier Lake Outburst Flood in the Everest region, the early 2024 widespread forest...
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How to stop net dumping in China’s largest fishing ground?
Swimming crabs, also known as portunid crabs, are the star attraction in the waters off Zhoushan, Zhejiang province. They have long lured droves of fishing vessels to this, China’s largest fishing...
View ArticleSoutheast Asia’s highly anticipated environmental rights declaration ‘watered...
On 24 March, two young anti-coal activists were abducted from a tuk-tuk in San Carlos, the Philippines, and forced into another vehicle. Francisco “Eco” Dangla III and Joxelle “Jak” Tiong were later...
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Three days after the Sheikh Hasina-led government was ousted on August 5, 2024, following massive student-led protests, an interim government was formed under the leadership of Nobel Laureate Muhammad...
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A brown tide of sargassum is causing havoc in Barbados
Sargassum inundates Barbados in the summer, covering beaches, docks and coral reefs. Emerging from the sea a light orange colour, the seaweed turns brown once it dries out. But the most distinctive...
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The sick children of Brazilian agriculture
Maria was born with a serious condition that limited her development in the years that followed. Though doctors worked fast to drain the excess fluid that had built up around her brain, a disorder...
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Will China’s new climate action plan match its great potential?
Work on a new national climate action plan is in full swing, with the focus being on targets for 2035, China’s climate envoy Liu Zhenmin told Dialogue Earth at a World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian...
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