TakePart · Energy Environmental Justice Food Policy Water
Dams, overfishing, and pollution threaten Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the largest lake in Southeast Asia and one of the world’s most productive fisheries.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Justice Policy
An elephant caravan draws attention to the illegal logging that threatens the country’s 900 remaining pachyderms.
TakePart · Biodiversity Environmental Justice Food Policy Water
Activists tracking these deals say rich countries are buying up land—93 million acres—and displacing local people and wildlife.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Policy
Scientists fear the hunts will decimate the cownose ray before they can learn of its role in the marine ecosystem.
Hakai magazine · Environmental Justice Food Indigenous Oceans Policy
First Nations’ occupations of fish farms are rooted in a deeper conversation about Indigenous land rights.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Environmental Justice Policy
Leng Ouch has risked his life to go undercover and gather evidence of collusion between timber companies and government officials.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Climate Change Oceans Policy
How can vulnerable marine species be protected when climate change is a reality?
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
Fisheries and Oceans Canada cites public backlash as one of the motivating factors for changing the rules governing marine protected areas.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
The government is counting fisheries closures as protected spaces in order to hit a 2020 target. Many scientists argue this is not meaningful conservation.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
New legislation would give planned MPAs interim protection during the years-long approval process.
California drought underscores the need to improve how the state – and the rest of us – divvy up a resource in demand.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
A string of concessions to the oil and gas and fishing industries has severely weakened the protective value of Canada’s largest planned marine protected area.
Conservation and recycling can reduce the need for massive municipal water infrastructure.
Ensia · Environmental Justice Policy Pollution Water
As contamination worsens, an oft-ignored groundwater pollutant is drawing new attention – and solutions.
Ensia · Environmental Justice Policy Pollution Water
In the wake of the Flint crisis, communities turn to innovative technology and financing to prevent the next crisis.
California has been the only western state without groundwater regulation – but now that looks set to change.