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As part of our series ‘Picturing Refugees,’ anthropologist Nathalie Peutz and photographer Nadia Benchallal discuss self-representation and the social significance of imagery after working with nine Yemeni refugees to document their lives in Djibouti over a year.
Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, helped invent a sponge-like metal compound that harvests water molecules out of the atmosphere at night and then releases it as a liquid upon exposure to sunlight.
Robert Parker at the University of British Columbia has calculated greenhouse gas emissions from the global fishing industry. He talks about what the data show and why not all fisheries are alike.
A large tract of land has been purchased along the Upper Truckee River in the hope of running restoration projects to aid the watershed and improve Lake Tahoe’s prized clarity. Nicole Cartwright of the Tahoe Resource Conservation District explains what comes next.
Projects to convert retired oil rigs into artificial reefs are controversial. But advocates and consultants Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson argue this practice provides valuable habitat at a time when natural coral reefs are disappearing.
While cash transfers have not delivered on their early promise when it comes to malnutrition, that does not mean they have no role to play, according to Stephen Devereux, the codirector of the Centre for Social Protection.
As part of our series “When Refugees Lead,” we speak with Rocio Cifuentes, chair of the Welsh Refugee Coalition and director of the Ethnic Youth Support Team, whose family fled dictatorship in Chile when she was an infant.
Community health workers help reach populations whose members are not accessing nutrition services in traditional healthcare settings. We speak to Saul Guerrero of Action Against Hunger about research done by the humanitarian group that suggests using community health workers in countering acute malnutrition.
The lush farming region has faced seawater intrusion from Monterey Bay for decades. But it has become an emergency due to unregulated well drilling, explains Gary Petersen, general manager of the Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency.
The Okeanos Expedition has returned from a 23-day exploration of the deep ocean in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientist Daniel Wagner says that much of what they saw was new to science and could affect management of the Gulf.
A new report from scientists at UCLA paint two different future scenarios for the Sierra Nevada based on greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Researcher Neil Berg explains why this is an opportunity to rethink California’s statewide water conveyance system.
A new analysis from nonprofits WaterAid and PATH calls for collaborative approaches across the health, nutrition and water and sanitation sectors.
A new study is the first to produce solid estimates of the hydrologic benefits of forest restoration work. Scientist Roger Bales explains how this could create a new method to finance controlled burns and selective logging.
As part of our series ‘When Refugees Lead,’ we speak with Omid Nouripour, a German politician from the Green Party whose family fled Iran in the 1980s.
The collapse of Thwaites Glacier would unleash catastrophic sea level rise. Erin Pettit, one of more than 100 scientists involved with a new international collaboration, discusses how better ocean data will help predict the glacier’s – and humanity’s – fate.
California’s groundwater agencies need to create sustainability plans, says Michael Kiparsky of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, noting that, unless those plans also take surface water into account, they might not work.
As part of our series ‘When Refugees Lead,’ we speak with Kathy Tran, a refugee from Vietnam who became the first Vietnamese-American elected to Virginia’s state legislature last year.
Sea level rise and changing streamflows are converging with uncertain results in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Ronald Melcer, a senior environmental scientist at the Delta Stewardship Council, explains what the future may hold.
Save the Children is calling for a tripling of global nutrition funding from previous targets set by the World Bank. The new model would integrate nutrition-sensitive initiatives.
A new study concludes that four hydroelectric dams on the Lower Snake River in Washington State could be effectively replaced by renewable power and more conservation. Fred Heutte of the Northwest Energy Coalition explain why.
One is modernizing community healthcare in Zimbabwe; the other builds affordable toilets in Vietnam. But English Sall and Camilla Hagen, two philanthropists in the Maverick Collective, are driven by the same belief: women’s health is key to economic progress.
Claire Nouvian, one of the winners of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize, has successfully battled to protect marine life from destructive fishing practices.
The refugee crisis saw many journalists confronted with trauma and hypocrisy on their home turf. Professor Anthony Feinstein discusses his latest work on the effects on those involved and their wider relevance.
Researchers from Stanford University say an algorithm for locating refugee resettlement could vastly improve their probability of finding work. We speak with them about their research and the limits and opportunities of big data for refugee resettlement.
As a growing number of governments and employers look to tackle inequality in the workplace, Chris Grieve of the EDGE Certification Foundation says companies need to cut to the core of what’s behind their gender bias.
Chip Cunliffe, director for sustainable development at XL Catlin, a global insurance and reinsurance group, explains why his company is hosting the first-ever Ocean Risk Summit in May and what it hopes to accomplish.
Donors can be instrumental to getting malnutrition on national agendas, and they must also build relationships with government officials and implementing agencies.
Matthew Marshall, executive director of the Redwood Coast Energy Authority, explains why a public-private partnership wants to build what could be the country’s first floating wind farm, in the Pacific Ocean.
As part of our series “When Refugees Lead,” we talk to Islamic Relief Worldwide CEO Naser Haghamed, who fled Eritrea as a child and now leads one of the world’s largest independent humanitarian organizations.
An annual report by the nonprofit American Rivers is turning the spotlight on rivers that face threats from the rollback of environmental protections, resource development and other policy decisions.
The Institute of International Education’s Allan Goodman and Katherine Miller speak with Refugees Deeply about their work to help more refugee students access higher education and to protect refugee scholars.
In a bid to address a $70bn resource gap, the charitable foundation Power of Nutrition works with both funders and governments and uses an approach that matches an initial investment – then doubles it.
Near Bakersfield, the Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District plans to set up procedures for land retirement and water trading with the goal of putting property owners in the driver’s seat on groundwater management.
Mayra Buvinic, senior fellow at the U.N. Foundation, discusses how time use surveys can measure the value of women’s work and what the pathway to policy change looks like when it’s based on sound data.
We speak with Canada’s minister of refugees and immigration Ahmed Hussen about how his own experience of displacement influenced his career and policy-making for our new series on leadership by refugees.
New research from the University of California, Davis, uncovers data about the most vulnerable communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley and identifies ways to provide access to safe drinking water.
A huge aquifer in the heart of Idaho’s most important farming region had been overdrafted. We talk to Brian Patton from the Idaho Water Resource Board about how state tax revenues are building recharge facilities to restore the aquifer.
Marine scientist Edward Allison says his research shows that in some developing countries, fish farming is not benefiting nutritionally vulnerable communities. That has triggered a backlash from other researchers and the aquaculture industry.
A new report from the Center for American Progress found that rivers in Western states have been disturbed, from headwaters to floodplains. Kate Kelly sheds more light on the project, one of the most extensive of its kind.
A new report from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs offers guidance to the U.S. government on how to effectively foster nutrition security around the world.
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