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Many Samburu women in Kenya’s north had come to fear lions, but now they’re taking up the conservation cause – and demanding the same training and opportunities as men.
Recent testing has found low levels of caffeine, even in relatively remote waterways around the West. Studies show it may be harmful to some wildlife species, but more research is needed.
Recent advances suggest Iran-backed Iraqi militias could join pro-government forces in Syria battling ISIS. While both sides may want this to happen, there is still much ground to be covered before cross-border coordination would be feasible.
The recently announced Year of Polar Prediction will aim to improve weather forecasts in the Arctic region. One puzzle that researchers will be studying is the role that clouds play in the Arctic’s rapid warming.
Three years into the war in Ukraine, international attention and aid to displaced people has waned. In an area near the war zone, Natasha Bluth reports on volunteer groups trying to fill gaps in support for one of the world’s largest internally displaced populations.
A new study estimates that around 9.5 cubic miles of groundwater was pumped from the region during the state’s five-year drought to make up the shortage from surface water supplies.
Seven years of war have transformed Syrian monitoring groups into sophisticated investigation centers. But with few options to hold perpetrators of humanitarian law violations accountable, the number of Syrians supplying evidence of human rights violations is dwindling, along with their hope for justice.
A case currently before India’s Supreme Court is bringing renewed attention to triple talaq, which alllows a Muslim man to divorce his wife by simply writing or saying ‘I divorce you’ three times.
Russia’s Arkhangelsk region hopes for an economic turnaround spurred by China’s investment in a new railway and deepwater port. But such plans have existed for decades in northern Russia and often fail to materialize, says Paul Josephson, a professor of Soviet history.
Men dominate the Ugandan journalism industry, but one radio station hopes to change that, employing only women in management positions, and putting voices on the air that would not otherwise be heard.
More than one-third of households in Canada’s eastern Arctic don’t have access to enough nutritious food. Social media campaigns against the territory’s sky-high food prices have prompted a variety of responses to help.
After a history of handing out lenient sentences to domestic abusers, the Portuguese government is focusing on prevention and education in a bid to turn things around.
Women “ulama” – Muslim clerics – recently held their first ever national gathering in West Java. The goal was twofold: to gain recognition for women religious scholars, and to advance women’s rights by sharing their interpretation of Islamic texts.
The project is designed to help secure water for growing Front Range communities near Denver, but environmental groups are concerned that more diversions and climate change impacts will leave too little water in the river.
Due to congressional budget cuts, the 38-year continuous U.S. Arctic satellite monitoring program is about to end, leaving researchers blind to ongoing Arctic sea ice losses.
Syrian and Palestinian refugee women in Jordan are finding economic independence and the comfort of community as they keep alive the traditional craft of soap making.
San Diego County’s water costs may double in the next decade. Part of the problem is that contracts oblige it to buy the most expensive water in the region.
Sandra Moran realized she was gay at a young age, but chose to hide her identity for fear of retaliation. Today, as Guatemala’s first openly gay member of Congress, she is helping to bring conversations about LGBT rights into the spotlight.
WORLD POLICY: Russia’s bad reputation for managing environmental issues in the Arctic is not entirely deserved, contend Maria Lagutina and Nadezhda Kharlampieva, two associate professors of world politics at Saint Petersburg State University.
Engineers at Utah State University are testing water flows through a model of the Oroville Dam spillway to ensure America’s tallest dam can withstand the kind of freak surges that caused it to start breaking apart in February.
In the Central African Republic, the women of Obo are considering leaving their homes when Ugandan and U.S. troops abandon the hunt for Joseph Kony.
Two years ago, Uganda launched a national strategy to cut child marriage rates, but girls are still getting married too young. Now local groups are stepping in to try to tackle the problem with community-based initiatives.
There are over 3 million asylum seekers in Turkey. Amel Ahmed moved to the country to volunteer her legal and Arabic skills to help those whose claims are denied. Here, she explains her day-to-day work – and why it’s not for the faint-hearted.
Two forensic social workers who visit Lebanon’s notorious Roumieh prison gained a rare insight through inmates into the activity of female ISIS supporters, whose roles go far beyond that of wives.
Adak Island’s population dwindled after a U.S. Navy base shut down in the 1990s. Residents who remain are holding out hope that a new economy can be built on shipping traffic as Arctic ice melts.
The island nation of Fiji has one of the world’s highest rates of domestic violence, and climate change disasters are making matters worse for women. One crisis center is tackling the problem by giving women the support they need to prosecute perpetrators.
At a hospital in Botswana’s capital, the introduction of a weekly meeting for cervical cancer care providers has resulted in a sharp reduction in delays for treatment.
South Sudan’s children are bearing the cost of a gruesome civil war that has left tens of thousands dead and more than 3 million displaced. A growing number of child refugees are arriving in Uganda on their own, some still wearing their school uniforms.
The proposed U.S. federal budget would cancel a program that provides support to coastal Alaskan communities with everything from monitoring shoreline erosion to maintaining healthy ecosystems.
Researchers have found that methane gas burbling from undersea ice deposits off Norway actually helps lock up carbon dioxide by feeding plankton that gobble up the greenhouse gas.
A self-help group of women farmers is defying the effects of climate change and making a steady income by growing drought-resistant sorghum on contract for a national brewery.
One year after European authorities helped arrest a suspected people smuggler in Sudan and brought him to Italy for trial, evidence is mounting that he is a victim of mistaken identity, yet he remains in jail. Investigative journalist Eric Reidy examines why.
Most of the 600,000 Afghans who returned from Pakistan last year settled in the eastern border province of Nangarhar, straining services and sending land prices soaring. Fazal Muzhary of the Afghanistan Analysts Network analyzes the local impact of the mass returns.
For many women who are being abused by their husbands, prosecuting a case through India’s notoriously slow court system is not an option. For more than 20 years, women’s councils, known as Mahila Panchayats, have provided an alternative.
Five state and federal wildlife refuges – critical habitat for migratory birds –will not get their full water deliveries this year, because the plumbing infrastructure required under a law passed in 1992 has never been built.
A head teacher in Yemen’s biggest camp for internally displaced people is struggling to keep the doors of his school open – and to prevent girls dropping out.
ENSIA: The wood and fossil fuels we burn affect extreme warming in the Arctic, and solutions begin with understanding how and how much.
Lots of rain and snow this year bode well for the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow and that’s good news for the whole river and the riparian ecosystem.
A head teacher in Yemen’s biggest camp for internally displaced people is struggling to keep the doors of his school open – and to prevent girls dropping out.
The vast scale of the internal migration underway in China presents one of the greatest integration challenges in the world. In this extract from her essay, which has become a literary sensation in China, Fan Yusu offers a rare personal insight into this struggle.
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