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Environmental Activism - Page 4

September 25, 2026
Education/Health

Mongolia’s Nomadic Herders Turn to Technology as Climate and Desertification Threaten Livelihoods

For Mongolian herder Ganchimeg, a GPS tracker recently helped avert the loss of her entire flock after hungry sheep strayed towards a salt lake in the Gobi Desert. With vegetation scarce, the

Diplomacy/Geopolitics

124 Defenders Killed for Protecting Land and Nature

At least 124 land and environmental defenders were killed worldwide in 2025, according to Global Witness, bringing the number of documented killings and long-term disappearances since 2012 to more than 2,375. The figures are stark, but the organisation warns that

September 17, 2026

Patrols Could Save Sri Lanka’s Elephants

Social/Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s 2020 National Action Plan for Human-Elephant Conflict was comprehensive, but its incomplete implementation left important gaps in protecting elephants along roads and

Himalayas Near Tipping Point as Glaciers Accelerate Melting

Health/Human Rights

The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than they did a decade ago, threatening water security as the region moves

Google’s Global Earthquake Alert System Uses Billions of Phones — and It’s Working

July 20, 2025
World

Google has turned more than two billion Android smartphones into a crowd-sourced global earthquake detection system — a bold initiative that is already alerting millions of people across 98 countries, according to

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NDB Bank Joins Forces to Save Sri Lanka’s Coral Reefs

June 20, 2025
Business

NDB Bank as part of its commitment to environmental stewardship and sustainable development is proud to support the “Life to Our Coral Reefs” initiative, an ambitious five-year conservation programme spearheaded by Biodiversity

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Resistance vs. Greed: Saving Earth’s Crucial Rainforest

June 20, 2025
Columns/Geopolitics

In Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, orangutans swing through the treetops, rhinos roam free, and elephants share the land with tigers. It is the last place on Earth where they still coexist in the

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Indonesia Cancels Mining Permits in Raja Ampat, Boosting Environmental Protection

June 15, 2025
Business

President Prabowo Subianto has taken a significant step in favor of environmental conservation by cancelling the permits of four out of five nickel mining companies operating in Indonesia’s ecologically sensitive Raja Ampat

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How the Rights of Nature Movement Is Reshaping Law and Culture

May 30, 2025
Columns/Education

The mountain dominates the western coast of New Zealand’s North Island, also known as Aotearoa. Its peak is like the center point of a sundial, the shadows on its slopes telling time. The

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AI-Powered Model Enhances Wildfire Prediction

April 2, 2025
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking artificial intelligence model that significantly improves the ability to predict when and where wildfires will ignite, Financial Times reports. The new Probability of Fire (PoF) model, developed

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Inequality and the Climate Crisis

March 29, 2025
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up a few friends, and make some

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Tourism’s Role in Protecting Kenyan Wildlife

March 8, 2025
Geopolitics/Kenya/Social

The Serengeti ecosystem is regarded as one of our planet’s greatest natural treasures, where one can witness“the largest remaining unaltered animal migration in the world,” according to UNESCO. Kenya’s share of the Serengeti plains

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UK Constructs £100M Bat Tunnel, Costing £300,000 ($380,000 USD) per Bat

January 26, 2025
News/United Kingdom

In one of the most expensive environmental projects in the UK’s history, a £100 million ($130 million USD) bat tunnel is being constructed as part of the HS2 high-speed rail project, after

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How to Make Your Home and Yard Safe for Hummingbirds

January 11, 2025
Columns/Education

Many species of birds face a deadly threat: window collisions. They cannot distinguish a clear pane of glass from the open sky, and hummingbirds, among the smallest birds, are particularly at risk.

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COP29: A Climate Betrayal

November 28, 2024
Business/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

There was a tortuous and painful end to COP29, the international climate change conference held in oil-rich Baku, Azerbaijan. The main issue was how much would the rich countries hand over to

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The Evolving History of Climate Change: Are We Entirely to Blame?

October 24, 2024
Columns

“We must face up to an inescapable reality: the challenges of sustainability simply overwhelm the adequacy of our responses. With some honorable exceptions, our responses are too few, too little, and too

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COP16: It’s Wild-West Capitalism Versus Life on Earth

October 23, 2024
Columns

All eyes should be on the salsa dancing capital of the world, Cali, Colombia, where representatives of 190 nations are joined by a broad swath of global civil society and international Indigenous

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What Would a Real Renewable Energy Transition Look Like?

October 5, 2024
Business

The transition from relying overwhelmingly on fossil fuels to using alternative low-carbon energy sources could be “unstoppable and exponential,” according to some experts. A boosterish attitude by many renewable energy advocates is

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Legal Stewardship by Indigenous Peoples: Key to Thriving Forest

September 18, 2024
Diplomacy/Education

Forests are essential for life on Earth. Because they produce oxygen and help regulate the balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere, forests are known as the “lungs of the

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