Let Communities Lead: Reclaiming Climate Solutions from the Ground Up
The whole of society is now schooled through harsh and accelerating realities of climate change, intensified by shifting weather patterns and deepened by capitalist exploitation. Mining corporations, oil companies, and logging interests extract from people and land alike, while single dams swallow vast stretches of territory, uproot hundreds of thousands, and displace the farmers who […]
Giving Water a New Language: Community Science & Care in Claypole, Argentina
Our history in Claypole (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) is repeatedly marked by the same image: the San Francisco stream overflowing after heavy rain, advancing through the streets, entering homes, and reminding residents that water-related and sanitary risk is part of everyday life. For years, the community lived with these overflows, until in 2018 we […]
Could Rest Re-Shape How We Meet the Climate Crisis?
When Jennifer Uchendu first began climate organizing in Lagos more than a decade ago, her energy was directed outward on action. She founded SustyVibes, a youth-led nonprofit that has since trained and mobilized many young people across Africa to take measures toward a more sustainable future. But in recent years, her attention has turned to […]
In the matter Re: Rights of Nature
What rights, if any, does Nature have?
Water, Peace, and Conflict: The Role of Science, Information, Journalism, and Advocacy
Fresh water, in appropriate amounts, of the right quality, and at an affordable price, is a human right – so declared by the UN in 2010 – but billions of people still lack adequate water and sanitation.
The Creeping Health Crisis
As the weather gets warmer and wetter due to climate change, it is creating the perfect environment for mosquitoes to thrive.
Mother Nature’s Rage: Effects of climate change in Kenya’s coast region
A rise in your body temperature is usually something to worry about. In fact, an elevated body temperature could be a sign of a serious infection similar to which a rise in global temperatures should worry humanity as this will interfere with the balance that enables organisms on this planet, including you and I, to […]
Reducing the Stigma of Vasectomy
World Vasectomy Day is marked with the aim of reducing the stigma around the procedure
More Women Choose Permanent Birth Control Method
The number of Kenyan Women opting to go for permanent birth control procedures is on the rise.
La Juvetad de mi Tribu / The Youth of My Tribe
Soy indígena Shuar y pertenezco a la comunidad Tarimiat. Soy Líder Nacional de Mujeres Shuar. Trabajo para empoderar a los jóvenes indígenas y facilitar su participación activa en la preservación de sus entornos naturales y culturales. I am an indigenous Shuar, and I belong to the Tarimiat community. I am a Shuar National Women’s Leader. […]