UN Live’s CEO Katja Iversen at the launch of ‘Sounds Right’. Credit: Naureen Hossain/IPS by Naureen Hossain (new york) Monday, April 22, 2024 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Apr 22 (IPS) – UN Live’s CEO, Katja Iversen, says the way to engage people in the environment is through popular culture—film, music, gaming, sports, food, and fashion. …
Cnemaspis vangoghi – Akshay Khandekar In India’s remote Western Ghats, a gorgeous blue and yellow gecko species has been named in honor of Vincent Van Gogh, whose painting Starry Night, was the first thing that entered Ishan Agarwal’s mind when he saw it. Found during one of many expeditions into these underdeveloped, underexplored mountains running parallel to …
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By Helen Sullivan Photographs by Michael Aw When he picks me up at the airport, Gary Cobb is wearing a nudibranch baseball cap, a gray T-shirt covered in illustrations of nudibranchs of various kinds, and wraparound sunglasses known colloquially in Australia as “speed dealers.” It is a bright, clear winter’s day in Mooloolaba, on Australia’s …
Ten ambitious scholars have the opportunity to participate in the Nippon Foundation-Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography. Credit: Riley Smith/Courtesy OFI by Alison Kentish (dominica) Tuesday, March 19, 2024 Inter Press Service DOMINICA, Mar 19 (IPS) – The Ocean Frontier Institute is hosting the fourth Nippon Foundation-Partnership for Observation …
A small farmer checks his corn field in the southern state of Guerrero. The grain is the star of the staple diet in Mexico, consumed in many different forms. CREDIT: Sader by Emilio Godoy (mexico city) Thursday, March 14, 2024 Inter Press Service MEXICO CITY, Mar 14 (IPS) – Mexico has taken important steps to protect …
Jacob Frank – public domain Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Wildlife Management is working on an experimental reintroduction plan to restore the American marten to woods and hills in the Keystone State. This tree-dwelling relative of the mink was extirpated from the state 100 years ago, and a plan to create an experimental, non-protected population to monitor …
Children at a dried community borehole in Turkana, Kenya. Climate change, a subject of discussion at UNEA-6, has been blamed for droughts in the region. Credit: Maina Waruru/IPS by Maina Waruru (nairobi) Monday, March 04, 2024 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Mar 04 (IPS) – The Sixth United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-6) ended with delegates calling for firm …
An adult male Hoolock tianxing – credit Peng-Fei Fan, released to the press. From the Far East comes fantastic news for species conservation after new populations of the gorgeous ‘Skywalker’ gibbon, known to science for only 6 years, were recently found living in the politically chaotic nation of Myanmar. Also called the hoolock gibbon, this …
Peruvian diving petrel chick – Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), released via Island Conservation For the first time in over four decades, Peruvian diving petrels have four active natural nests on Chañaral Island after a dedicated conservation group cleared the island of a deadly invasive species. This unique Chilean ecosystem has seen …
Courtesy of Davis Martin Damaledo By Ebed de Rosary In March 2021, Davis Marthin Damaledo set out on foot accompanied by his father, Dantje, to pursue his childhood fascination with the natural world around his home in eastern Indonesia. As the father and son made progress through the countryside near Oemasi village, in the west …