New Future

There’s something about viewing Earth from space — the shift in perspective has for decades moved us emotionally, scientifically, and philosophically.

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN, Norway — It’s been nearly five months since the Norwegian government paused its controversial plans to launch deep-sea mining in Arctic waters.

Before his death in 2020, the conservative historian Paul Schroeder turned his attention to American empire. A lifetime spent studying the disastrous lead-up to World War I gave him reason to be horrified at the recklessness of US foreign policy.

A coalition of leading European environmental groups has cautiously welcomed a “landmark” agreement by lawmakers in Brussels on new rules aimed at curbing a major source of microplastic pollution in the world’s oceans.

LANGKAT, Indonesia — A critically endangered Sumatran elephant was found dead April 4 on the border of the Gunung Leuser National Park in Sumatra’s Langkat district, officials said. The elephant was male, around 10 years old, and weighed no more than 2 tons.

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. It’s difficult to describe the feeling of standing beneath Auyán-Tepuí, that towering table mountain in southern Venezuela, except to say that something in me changed.

Food sovereignty was a response to the Washington Consensus model of the 1990s. The World Bank, and the US government behind it, insisted that what mattered most was “food security”, and that people shouldn’t worry too much about how food security was achieved.

The attacks against Palestinian social movements have been going on for a long time, but over recent years they have worsened. In particular, there are fears that all the Palestinian civil society organisations will soon be deprived of bank accounts, to cut off any possible funding.

Trump's drug war policies weaponize the overdose crisis to wage class war and will ultimately only make the crisis worse.

Scientists have identified nine planetary boundaries that help regulate a livable planet. Human activities have pushed six of those nine critical Earth systems beyond safe limits, threatening the stability of life as we know it.

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on fisheries management and ocean governance under the second Trump administration, which took office Jan. 20. Part 1 looks at the potential impacts that cuts and deregulation at the U. S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) could have on U. S. fisheries.

This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. Last Thursday, Hanieh Moghani, a legal scholar from Iran, was scheduled to attend a private meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York City with more than a dozen Indigenous experts from around the world.

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, U. S. — Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Seven environmental activists from around the world will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 21. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize, ” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the six inhabited continental regions.

Two North Atlantic right whales, among the most at-risk marine mammals, were spotted swimming in the Bahamas on April 15, marking the first time the species has been seen in the nation’s waters. “That moment for me was breathtaking, and I couldn’t fully gather myself.

We don’t have our own territory, so federalism has never been our solution — it could actually give rise to stronger forms of ethno-nationalism than we have today.

BASRA, Iraq — The air in Basra carries a strange weight: part saline mist from the nearby Persian Gulf and part acrid smoke from the towering oil refineries that loom over the southern horizon. Cracked riverbanks crumble into brackish water, where mangrove saplings now sprout in orderly rows.

When a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the U. S. city of San Diego on April 14, a video showing five African elephants huddling together in the middle of their enclosure at San Diego Zoo Safari Park made headlines. It showed three older female elephants, Ndlula, Umngani and Khosi, moving quickly to protect 7-year-old calves Zuli and Mkhaya.

Despite decades of donor funding, the push for women in politics in Nigeria often sidelines real change in favor of workshops, buzzwords, and photo ops—leaving power structures intact.

The arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has prompted more than a month of protests in Turkey. The demonstrations have rallied many working-class Turks, but they’ve also shown the limited strength of organized labor.