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Tag: environment

Hydropower and India’s “Sinking Towns”: How Should Development Continue?

by Kira Liljegren4 May 202321 Dec 2025Leave a comment

“Sinking Towns” in India’s Himalayan Region demonstrate the need for an immediate solution to protect both residents and the environment.

South Asia climate change, development, environment, india, Opinion

Leaders claim desalination will end water woes — take this with a grain of salt

by Benjamin Blum6 Mar 202226 May 20221 Comment

Countries must carefully weigh desalination's potential for good with its steep costs and harmful environmental impact.

Explainer climate change, desalination, environment, human rights, modi, Opinion, water, water pollution

Nature is healing — or is it?

by Si Yun Ee28 Nov 202128 Nov 2021Leave a comment

COVID-19 is impacting climate change, and vice versa. In both scenarios, wildlife is feeling the impacts.

COP26, Explainer animals, climate change, cop26, earth, ecosystems, environment, wildlife

Negotiations in Glasgow seek to build on the Paris Agreement

by GPI Fellows5 Nov 20215 Nov 2021Leave a comment

It's been five years since COP21 — how did we get here?

COP26, Explainer climate, climate change, cop26, environment, glasgow, human rights, HumanRights, united nations

Environmental protests sweep Europe

by Aaron Smith5 Nov 202122 Dec 2025Leave a comment

Protestors demand bold moves from world leaders at COP26.

COP26, Europe, Explainer climate, climatechange, cop26, earth, environment, fridaysforfuture, glasgow, HumanRights, thunberg

Drones are helping Indigenous communities protect the Amazon

by Aaron Smith10 Oct 202122 Dec 2025Leave a comment

Indigenous communities are using modern technology to protect against illegal deforestation.

Explainer, Latin America & Caribbean Amazon, Amazon Rainforest, Bolsonaro, Brazil, deforestation, drone, drones, environment, Indigenous, sustainability, Technology
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