The last time Rochelle Adams exercised her rights to subsistence fish in her ancestral waters was in 2019. A Gwich’in leader from the villages of Beaver and Fort Yukon, she…
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Across West Africa, women farmers are reclaiming land, preserving seeds, and passing down knowledge that has sustained their communities for generations. These West African women farmers are growing food, restoring…
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Click here for more.Maurice Manishimwe runs a small garage beside a fuel station in Musango village, just outside the Rwandan capital of Kigali, an African city restoring its wetlands, in a nation known…
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Few locations on Earth are as haunting or deeply ironic as so-called involuntary parks — places too toxic, dangerous, or otherwise made off-limits for human habitation, but which have paradoxically…
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Click here for more.Bottles and bubbles: A good combination in more ways than one? While barriers for collecting plastic in rivers are becoming more commonplace, effervescence is an unlikely ally in this fight. But…