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4 weeks 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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
e360.yale.edu | Fred Pearce
The natural environment took an unprecedented pounding during the war in Gaza. And as the territory’s inhabitants have returned to their homes 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.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
e360.yale.edu | Fred Pearce
A new analysis shows that African wildlife increasingly depend on lands managed by villagers and herders. In many areas, locally-run conservancies now more effectively protect wildlife than national parks do, with communities reaping tourism revenue and other benefits. It’s time to salute the herder conservationists of Africa. Once, the term would have seemed an oxymoron.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Fred Pearce |Kevin Mason |Bob Brash |Robert McKellar
Will New Carbon Market Work? Indonesia Will Provide First Test By Fred Pearce Yale Environment 360 December 3, 2024 Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy Region: International The United Nations’ market for carbon trading will soon be open for business.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
undark.org | Fred Pearce
It was a monumental disaster. The dynamiting of the Kakhovka dam on Ukraine’s Dnieper River just before dawn on June 6 last year rapidly emptied Europe’s largest hydroelectric reservoir. Some 14 million acre-feet of water hurtled downstream for more than 100 miles to the sea. Around 80 villages were flooded, more than 100 people died, and more than 40 nature reserves were engulfed.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
atlasobscura.com | Fred Pearce
This piece was originally published in Yale Environment 360 and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration.
It was a monumental disaster. The dynamiting of the Kakhovka dam on Ukraine’s Dnieper River, just before dawn on June 6, 2023, rapidly emptied Europe’s largest hydroelectric reservoir. Some 14 million acre-feet of water hurtled downstream for more than 100 miles to the sea. Around 80 villages were flooded, more than 100 people died, and more than 40 nature reserves were engulfed.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
atlasobscura.com | Roxanne Hoorn |Sarah Lohman |Fred Pearce
Team Kwe's 2024 sculpture “Wenabozho and Dadibaajimad Journey on the River of Souls,” illustrating a traditional Ojibwe story of two figures—Wenabozho and his brother Dadibaajimad—on an otherworldly journey. Atlas Obscura is ringing in Native American Heritage Month with stories from across the country, from California to Wisconsin to Oklahoma. These Indigenous innovators are bringing back spirit horses, sculpting stories in snow, and finding other new ways to carry on old traditions.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
e360.yale.edu | Fred Pearce
As he prepares to host the G20 summit, Brazil’s president is championing initiatives to promote a “bioeconomy” in the Amazon that protects biodiversity and helps Indigenous residents. The goal: To get governments to commit to a new economic vision that is truly sustainable. “We must ensure that taking care of the forest is more profitable than cutting down the trees.” So declared Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a pitch to Japanese investors in May.
