Environment

How AI-Powered War Drives the Critical Minerals Race

By Oritro Karim
The demand for critical minerals is accelerating as world powers scramble to stay on top of emerging technologies. Meanwhile, the environment and frontline communities are paying a steep price.

Prioritize Multilateralism to Resolve Iran War Deepening Humanitarian Crisis, Says OSF Vice President

By Oritro Karim
Seven months into the Iran War, threats of further military escalation and stalled efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz have heightened fears of worsening humanitarian suffering and wider regional instability.

Workers Help Feed the World but Starved of Dignity

By Busani Bafana
A new report reveals widespread labour exploitation among food system workers, warning that keeping the world fed comes at the cost of human dignity.

The Late Arrivals

By James Alix Michel
One night, many years ago now, on a remote beach in the outer islands of Seychelles, I sat in the darkness and watched a green turtle come ashore. She had waited for the heat of the day to leave the sand. Under a sky crowded with stars, she hauled herself slowly above the tideline, dug with a patience no human hand could match, and laid her eggs. Then, in the small hours, she turned back toward the water. She did not hurry. She paused once, as though listening, and then made her slow, unhesitating way down the sand, back to a home older than any I could imagine.

Climate Change Is Becoming a Pregnancy Hazard Worldwide, Survey Finds

By Umar Manzoor Shah
Extreme heat is increasingly threatening pregnant women and newborn babies around the world, with almost all maternal health professionals surveyed across five continents saying they have cared for women or infants whose health was affected by high temperatures.

Renewables, Farmer Aggregation Offer Solutions to Africa’s Post-Harvest Losses

By Farai Shawn Matiashe
Post-harvest losses, particularly in rural areas, threaten the gains Africa is making in agricultural production and export capacity.

If We Can Start an Epoch, We Can Start a Farming Revolution

By Hugh Locke
In November 1952, the United States detonated the world's first thermonuclear device at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The test, code-named Ivy Mike, erased the island of Elugelab and scattered a signature of plutonium across the planet that remains in lake beds, ice sheets and ocean sediments today.

Afghanistan’s Drought Deepens, and Women Bear the Heaviest Burden

Drought has depleted wells, withered fruit trees, and reduced crop yields across Afghanistan. The heaviest burden of the water shortage falls on women in their daily lives, as they must fetch water from increasingly distant sources and use every single drop with extreme care.

How to Protect Coastal Communities From Tide-Related Loss and Damage in Bangladesh

By Rafiqul Islam Montu
Villagers rush to the vulnerable spot of the embankment—early warning of the rising tide has alerted them. Together, they save the village from tidal flooding by repairing the vulnerable embankment, which is at risk from the impact of low pressure in July this year. The message is clear: early warnings of the rising tide save lives and property.

“The Price of a Narrow Metric: Why Vulnerability Must Count”

By James Alix Michel
From a distance, an island nation can appear to possess everything: pristine waters, a thriving tourism industry and a strong cultural identity. Its income figures may suggest prosperity.

A Stronger Future for Coffee Starts Where It Is Grown

By Boubaker Ben Belhassen
Imagine your morning coffee. You smell the aroma as steam rises from the cup. It wisps and swirls, thins, then disappears. You lift the cup to your mouth. The first pure joy of the day.

New Ocean Report Warns of Rising Seas, Ocean Heat and Acidification

By Kizito Makoye
Fatuma Makame learned to farm seaweed in the shallow water where her parents worked. These days, she grows it farther from shore.

What Faith Can Teach Agriculture

By Hugh Locke
Years ago, standing in a small farmer's field in Haiti, I began to suspect that we had agriculture backward. The development world saw a man in need of rescue. I saw a farmer who might help rescue the rest of us.

Fragmented Policies Hold Back Agroecology Adoption in Africa’s Congo Basin

By Isaiah Esipisu
Agricultural, land, forestry, environmental and trade policies in the Congo Basin remain compartmentalised at country levels, leaving proven agroecological models trapped at pilot stages due to a lack of advisory services, organic inputs, market outlets and sustainable financing.

Overshoot of Paris Agreement and the Looming Super El Niño Drive Urgent Calls for Global Climate Action at UNGA 81

By Oritro Karim
The United Nations 2026 Climate Summit addressed critical strategies to mitigate the compounding impacts of the climate crisis and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

BRAZIL: ‘Resistance Is Intergenerational, and Art Is How Energy Gets Renewed’

By CIVICUS

 
CIVICUS discusses the role of art in climate and rights struggles in the Brazilian Amazon with Tom Wheeler, executive director and co-founder of Treesistance. Treesistance is a platform operated by the Netherlands-based Sinchi Foundation that partners with Indigenous communities across four Brazilian states on cultural preservation and forest protection.

Nepal’s Devastating Floods Have Put Women and Girls at Greater Risk

By Oritro Karim
On August 26, 2026, deadly flash floods and landslides ripped through Himalayan towns and villages along Nepal and Tibet’s border, devastating communities. The United Nations estimates that in Nepal’s worst-affected districts of Rasuwa and Nuwakot, 157,050 women and girls are directly or indirectly impacted.

Forty Years of the ‘Right to Development’: When Growth Excludes, Is It Still Development?

By Busani Bafana
World leaders have warned that the most vulnerable people have been left behind as the right to development has promised more than it has delivered, with development seemingly the preserve of the superrich and powerful.

AI-Driven Climate Change Pushes Frontline Communities Further Into Environmental Degradation and Poverty

By Oritro Karim
On September 21, Frontline Resource Institute (FRI) hosted its Climate Justice Hub at Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York City under the theme “Building a Stronger Climate Coalition.”

Norway’s Development Rethink Should See Ocean Investment as a Strategic Interest

By Gareth Johnstone and Jan Thomas Odegard
As Norway undertakes Vendepunkt, or “Turning Point,” its reflection on the future of Norwegian development policy, it is critical that oceans remain a priority. Donors around the world are running similar audits, deciding which long-term partnerships to keep, and why. Norway has decades of expertise to offer, but also something significant at stake: healthy and well-governed oceans underpin food, livelihoods and economic activity in partner countries while supporting global seafood supply chains in which Norway itself participates.

The BBNJ Agreement: From Paper to Protection – The Real Test for Global Ocean Governance

By James Alix Michel
After decades in which the high seas were too often treated as a distant frontier—vast, ownerless and beyond meaningful protection—the High Seas Treaty entered into force on 17 January 2026.
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