Fred Pearce

3 weeks ago | e360.yale.edu | Fred Pearce

China’s plans to build a massive hydro project in Tibet have sparked fears about the environmental impacts on the world’s longest and deepest canyon. It has also alarmed neighboring India, which fears that China could hold back or even weaponize river water it depends on. China has announced plans to build the world’s largest hydroelectric project at a remote river gorge in eastern Tibet, an ecological treasure trove close to a disputed border with India.

2 months ago | e360.yale.edu | Omnia Saed |Fred Pearce

As civil war rages in Sudan, a surge in gold production is helping finance and arm the warring factions. Most of the mining is done on a small scale by villagers who process the gold using mercury and cyanide, posing serious threats to their health and to the environment. Sudan has a long history of gold mining.

2 months ago | e360.yale.edu | Fred Pearce |- Omnia Saed

Omnia Saed is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist covering environmental justice and cultural memory across Africa and the diaspora. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Atmos, and Hyperallergic. Fred Pearce is an environmental journalist based in the U.K. He is a contributing writer for Yale Environment 360 and the author of numerous books, including most recently A Trillion Trees: Restoring Our Forests by Trusting in Nature.

Feb 20, 2025 | e360.yale.edu | Fred Pearce

Solar and wind farms are proliferating and increasingly taking up land worldwide, prompting criticism from rural communities and environmentalists. Solutions range from growing crops or grazing livestock under PV panels to putting floating solar farms on lakes and reservoirs. In California, sheep safely graze amid giant solar farms. In India and Mexico, solar panels on stilts power remote villages while shading and watering crops.

Feb 15, 2025 | motherjones.com | Fred Pearce

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The natural environment took an unprecedented pounding during the war in Gaza. And as the territory’s inhabitants have returned home since the ceasefire, the extent of the environmental devastation is becoming clear, raising crucial questions about how to reconstruct Gaza in the face of severe and potentially irreversible damage to the environment.