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2 days ago | dialogue.earth | Daniel Cressey

Scientists and entrepreneurs from across the world gathered in Bucharest earlier this year to discuss a temptingly simple idea to battle climate change. Gathering up plant scraps left over from agriculture and sinking them into the depths of the ocean could, they believe, take carbon that nature has locked up in plants and put it where it cannot escape.

6 days ago | dialogue.earth | Fermin Koop

Latin America has made significant steps towards its energy transition. The region already generates 60% of its electricity from renewable sources, a figure that the International Energy Agency expects to continue to rise. However, there is one factor in this journey that receives limited attention – and is affecting the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from energy.

6 days ago | dialogue.earth | Fermin Koop

América Latina está dando pasos significativos en su transición energética. La región ya cuenta con el 60% de su electricidad generada por fuentes renovables, una cifra que la Agencia Internacional de la Energía prevé quesiga aumentando. Sin embargo, hay un factor que no usualmente es tan mencionado y está afectando la posibilidad de reducir las emisiones contaminantes de la energía.

1 week ago | dialogue.earth | Kebba Jeffang

At sunrise most days, Lamin Sarr launches his wooden fishing canoe into the Atlantic from The Gambia’s Gunjur Beach, partaking in the same trade as his father and grandfather. But Sarr says the ocean feels emptier these days. The fish that sustained Sarr’s village in the past are vanishing, replaced by imposing trawlers that he blames for catching what remains. Each outing is a battle against the waves, but also against often-opaque agreements between governments and industrial fleets.

1 week ago | dialogue.earth | Zofeen Ebrahim

On 23 April, India declared it had suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), a landmark water-sharing agreement with Pakistan. The announcement came a day after an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir killed 26 and left 17 injured. India accused Pakistan of supporting terrorism – an allegation it strongly denies. The move sent ripples of anxiety across Pakistan’s farming communities. It also revived longstanding debates about the treaty’s future.