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Greenpeace Plans to Sue JBS for Its Climate Impacts, Seeks Details About Major Plans in Nigeria

The advocacy group says the lawsuit could open a new legal frontier for pursuing industrial agriculture companies.

By Georgina Gustin

Workers strike at the JBS Beef Production Facility in Greeley, Colo., on March 16. Credit: Brice Tucker/MediaNews Group/Greeley Tribune via Getty Images
People flee a U.N. base, where gunmen opened fire on South Sudanese civilians sheltering inside, in the town of Malakal on Feb. 18, 2016. Scientists tracing links between climate impacts and conflicts found that some regions can tip toward violence when they reach extreme drought tipping points. Credit: Justin Lynch/AFP via Getty Images

Some Climate Shocks Can Increase the Likelihood of War

By Bob Berwyn

Following Months of Drought, Floods in Kenya Kill More Than 40 People

By Kiley Price

An African elephant moves through the Cuando River in Angola. Credit: Kostadin Luchansky/National Geographic

One of Africa’s Most Important Water Sources Just Got Some Very Good News

By Katie Surma

Rare desert wetlands at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula could be wiped by global warming before the end of the century, a new report on climate change in the Arab region warns. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

New Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in Arab Region

By Bob Berwyn

Tawanda Majoni, an investigative journalist and founder of Information for Development Trust, stands outside his office in Harare, Zimbabwe. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders

By Katie Surma

A fishing vendor uses an umbrella to protect herself from the midday sun during a heat wave in St. Louis, Senegal. Credit: Lucia Weiß/picture alliance via Getty Images

Emissions are Sparking Increases in African Heat Waves in Unexpected Ways, New Study Finds

By Chad Small

Jingjing Zhang meets with community members in Kalusale, Zambia. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable

By Katie Surma

The Soybean Innovation Lab supported tests of soybean varieties in Malawi and other parts of Africa to create a database farmers could access. Credit: Soybean Innovation Lab

The Soybean Innovation Lab Is Set to Close in April After Trump Cuts

By Susan Cosier

Environmental activists hold banners and chant slogans as they protest against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project on Aug. 26 in Kampala, Ugandan. Credit: Badru Katumba/AFP via Getty Images

In the Heart of Wall Street, Rights of Nature Activists Put the Fossil Fuel Era on Trial

By Katie Surma

People help an elderly man wade through flood water on Sept. 12 in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Credit: Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images

A Thousand Lives Lost, and Millions Disrupted, by Flooding in Western Africa

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A ranger from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo walks through an area of the park devastated by logging on Sept. 30, 2019. Credit: Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images

International Human Rights Commission Condemns ‘Fortress Conservation’

By Katie Surma

JeNiyah Scaife, an intern at the CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, works in a lab on a new test that will help to detect a species of mosquito that can carry malaria. Credit: CDC

To Help Stop Malaria’s Spread, CDC Researchers Create a Test to Find a Mosquito That Is Flourishing Thanks to Climate Change

By Victoria St. Martin

Why is Rhino Poaching Down at This Park? The Reasons May Not Be Good

By Kiley Price

A boy collects water from a shallow well on Feb. 24, 2024 in Lusaka, Zambia. Credit: Luke Dray/Getty Images

Zambians Feel the Personal Consequences of Climate Change—and Dream of a Sustainable Future

By Georgina Gustin

A family of mountain gorillas lives under protection at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Uganda. Credit: Mehmet Emin Yogurtcuoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images

The Global Mining Boom Puts African Great Apes at Greater Risk Than Previously Known

By Katie Surma

Dr. Vanessa Kerry speaks onstage at the Seed Global Health 10th Anniversary Gala at InterContinental Boston on Oct. 22, 2022. Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

How the Dire Health Implications of Climate Change Are Unfolding Globally

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

An artisanal cassiterite mine in February 2022 in Manono. The Democratic Republic of Congo is rich with Lithium, an essential mineral for electric car batteries. Credit: Junior Kannah/AFP via Getty Images

Corruption and Rights Abuses Are Flourishing in Lithium Mining Across Africa, a New Report Finds

By Katie Surma

Families come to the Ammusait General Hospital malnutrition ward to tend to their sick children and family members. Staff is limited so family members become caretakers at the hospital. Credit: Larry C. Price

A Hospital Ward for Starving Children in Kenya Has Seen a Surge in Cases This Year

By Georgina Gustin

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