Tara Lohan has been a professional environmental journalist and editor for more than 15 years. Her work has been published in the Nation, the American Prospect, Salon, High Country News, Grist, the Revelator, Adventure Journal, and other news outlets. She is the editor of two books on the global water crisis and, most recently, Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (Island Press, 2025).
The French protests that are spreading over Europe are not receiving proper attention. The explanation that students all over France, with the disturbances spreading into Italy and Belgium, are burning down historic
Sri Lanka lost an estimated Rs 29.5 billion in potential tax revenue in 2025 because of illicit factory-made cigarette consumption, according to an economic assessment by Oxford Economics, which estimates that illegal products accounted for 20% of the market despite
A familiar storm gathers Sri Lanka’s inflation reached 8% in September 2026, above the Central Bank’s 3–7% target band for a third straight month,
More than 25 years after the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, women’s representation in multilateral peace operations
With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. We’ve dammed, diked, and diverted almost every major river in the country, straightening curves, pinching off floodplains, and blocking
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