Progress on Africa's 'Great Green Wall' stalls as seedlings die off
New research finds that few of the millions of planted trees in Africa's Great Green Wall survive due to limited rainfall, grazing livestock, and slow disbursement of pledged funds.
New research finds that few of the millions of planted trees in Africa's Great Green Wall survive due to limited rainfall, grazing livestock, and slow disbursement of pledged funds.
Food group Nestlé says it has withdrawn from a global alliance for cutting methane emissions that aims to reduce the impact of dairy farming on global warming.
Sprawling AI data centers, hungry for land, water and power, are coming. Plans for the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in a drought-stricken region in Alberta.
Recycling doesn’t address any of plastic’s human and environmental impacts. It’s essentially another form of plastic production, one that usually hurts low-income communities.
Months after a fatal methane explosion destroyed a home and killed a resident above the Oak Grove coal mine, Alabama regulators have indefinitely suspended plans to require methane monitoring at expanding mines—a move experts call “astonishing and reckless.”