We Can’t Hold Back the Sea: A Woman’s Story of Climate Survival
Ursula Rakova’s island is disappearing into the sea. How will her community survive in the face of climate change? This is their story.
Restoring Fresh Water and People’s Health in Micronesia
A thick blanket of rainforest covers the Micronesian island of Pohnpei. Waterfalls pour over black basalt mountains. Though rivers seem plentiful, waterborne diseases have plagued people in the village of Kepirohi in southern Pohnpei. The problems started in the 1960s, when a religious trade school diverted its septic system into a local river. This contaminated […]
A victory for Miskito stewards of the forest
The indigenous Miskito people live amongst lush rainforests along the Caribbean Coast in Honduras. After a 40-year struggle, they won title to their ancestral land in 2013.
Shell oil to pay $84M for pollution in the Niger Delta
Shell has agreed to pay $84 million for two oil spills in the Niger Delta community of Bodo. A step in the right direction or a paltry sum in comparison with the devastation big oil is wreaking? It’s both.
Saving the Leuser Ecosystem for orangutans, elephants, and people
Rudi Putra is standing up to palm oil interests illegally poaching one of the most incredible forests on Earth.