Category: Biodiversity / Biodevastation

Across Africa, the departure of multinational mining companies leaves behind a trail of ruin—abandoned pits, poisoned water, shattered livelihoods, and ghost towns stripped of basic services. What was once promised as “development” turns into long-term dispossession, as profits are exported and communities are left to bear ecological and economic collapse. The article exposes how extractive…

The arson attacks that engulfed the protected forests of he Andean-Patagonia region serve as a reminder that Western conservation models, which dispossess Indigenous peoples of their lands, are another tool of imperialism. To protect those lands, we need Indigenous sovereignty over them from Latin America and the Caribbean to Africa.

Oil and gas production can continue to rise for some time, even decades, before lack of discovery leads to lower production. For oil that day seems nearer than ever. For natural gas it might be a decade or two away. But even that is a very short time to get ready for a world of…

Groundwater levels are plunging in a rich agricultural region dubbed the Green Triangle. It’s a slowly unfolding disaster

In the drought-prone fields of Karauli, where monocrops and erratic rains have trapped small farmers in cycles of risk and meagre returns, an innovative multilayer vegetable cultivation model offers a compelling alternative. By intensifying land use, optimizing scarce water, and reviving soil health through natural farming, marginal households are unlocking diversity, food security, and steady…

Huge “regreening” efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country’s water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.

The World Health Organization’s cancer research agency has classified atrazine – the second most widely used herbicide in the United States – as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” adding to growing concerns about toxic exposures in the nation’s farm belt.

For a Midwest farm, when you plant treated seed, you’re introducing into the soil more than just germinating kernel and nutrients. You’re introducing a chemical load that lives in the seed, transfers into the plant, drifts or leaches into the environment, and affects non-target insects (pollinators, beneficials), soil health, water bodies animals and even humans.

Insects are vanishing from pristine rainforests. And since insects are ‘dropping like flies’, does loss of insects mean nature is collapsing? That question of whether nature is collapsing because of insect Armageddon is found in many articles and upscale publications with some claiming that nature is collapsing, some are not so sure, but some question…

The unwinding of global commerce and carbon energy supplies will send shock waves through most sectors of life, says Smaje. In his book, he focuses mostly on the likely changes in agriculture, land ownership and use, livelihoods, household and family life, and politics, as seen through the eyes of ordinary people.