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Despite an increase in the number of Chinook salmon in California this year, some fishers are worried that methods to truck and barge hatchery fish will lead to long-term problems for the restoration of ecosystems and fisheries.
As Islamic State continues to lose territory in its major strongholds in Syria, activists and civil society organizations are leading deradicalization efforts, hoping ultimately to erase the militants’ ideological legacy.
In the Rohingya refugee camps of southern Bangladesh, women-only support centers run by volunteers offer a safe space for those who have survived violence during Myanmar’s brutal military campaign.
In the Rohingya refugee camps of southern Bangladesh, women-only support centers run by volunteers offer a safe space for those who have survived violence during Myanmar’s brutal military campaign.
As an unprecedented string of storms hit the Caribbean, a volunteer organization began dispatching privately owned superyachts to bring desperately needed supplies and volunteers to hard-to-reach coastal towns.
For more than 50 years, Californians have been considering new ways to move water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Here’s a graphic look at the important milestones.
Sharya refugee camp in Northern Iraq was set up to shelter people fleeing ISIS. But it’s also home to orphaned girls from unaffected parts of Iraq, sent away from their homes because they’re not allowed to live without a male guardian.
The recent escape of 160,000 Atlantic salmon raised in Pacific Ocean pens and environmental concerns about the impact of fish farms on wild populations have prompted a new look at inland aquaculture.
In June, California voters will decide whether to fund a $4 billion bond measure that covers a wide variety of issues, including urban parks, drought resilience and flood protection.
When protests against the election rerun in Kenya turned violent, volunteer nurses from around the country provided trauma first aid to victims of police brutality in Kisumu. Photojournalist Jennifer Huxta was there to witness a day of healing and loss.
Budget shortfalls and aging ships are starting to undermine key climate-change data-collection programs that help scientists gauge the state of the world’s oceans.
In this firsthand account of a day aboard the rescue ship Aquarius in the central Mediterranean, some lives are saved but others lost. Survivors testify to the diverse motives of migrants and the intense suffering on land in Libya.
North Kivu has the lowest rates of birth registration in the DRC, with only 5 percent of children having access to the legal document that allows them to attend school and potentially escape being married off young.
The menhaden is a tiny fish key to the Atlantic Ocean ecosystem that has supported a thriving fishery since the 19th century. Now regulators are considering a novel approach to ensure there’s enough fish to feed the fishery and other marine animals.
The state’s biggest urban supplier hopes to divert water from farms in the Palo Verde Valley by encouraging conservation. But the move may endanger an existing water-sharing deal that has become a model of cooperation.
Chinese demand for donkey skins has led to widespread poaching and pushed the price of the animals out of reach for many in Kenya. And when a family loses a donkey, it’s women who have to make up for the loss.
State officials are moving forward with a strategy for a “smaller but sustainable Salton Sea,” but some experts worry that it is not enough to stave off the growing risks to environmental and public health.
For many Syrians displaced from Homs over six years of war, going home means facing a gap in public services, the absence of social and economic support systems and security risks. Many who have returned have found debris where their houses once stood.
When they get their periods, many girls in Zimbabwe skip school or drop out; others resort to exchanging sex for sanitary pads. The government and NGOs hope that giving girls free or affordable pads will stop puberty from derailing their education and childhoods.
A recommendation to increase quotas for the valuable but imperiled Atlantic bluefin tuna, despite a finding that the species has not rebounded from decades of overfishing, underlines a lack of reliable data on the fish.
At El Restaurante Interno in Cartagena, diners feast on sirloin steak and coconut shrimp – all prepared, cooked and served by the female inmates of San Diego women’s prison.
The explosive remnants of war pose a long-term threat to reconstruction and peacebuilding efforts in Syria. Women, however, are playing a notably growing role as humanitarian groups shift their focus to land-mine clearing and risk education.
Alone on a remote northern Alaska island, biologist George Divoky has been monitoring a population of sea ice-dependent black guillemots for four decades. Now he fears he’s watching the colony in a slow-motion collapse as temperatures rise and its prey disappears.
In Paris, informal networks of volunteers temporarily house teenage migrants they find sleeping on the streets. Many spend months trying to prove they are under 18, leaving them with few options for official shelter.
An initiative called FISH-i Africa helps coordinate the efforts of eight cash-strapped countries to uncover and catch pirate fishing operators in the western Indian Ocean.
When ISIS ordered the forced conscription of all men of fighting age in Deir Ezzor, Ali knew he had no other choice but to enlist a smuggler and escape the eastern province.
Fiji is already feeling the effects of a warming world, with high-intensity cyclones and flooding destroying livelihoods across the South Pacific. As with so many natural disasters, it’s women and girls who are hardest hit.
As this year’s meeting to implement the Paris Agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions, marine advocates will be present to argue that ocean protections play a crucial role in fighting climate change.
A California phenomenon called the ‘duck curve’ successfully predicted an electricity surplus as solar and wind energy flooded the grid. This may be bad news for Western hydroelectric dams that are unable to adapt.
At clinics around the country, women trained as community health workers sit on benches under trees and offer free counseling to people struggling with mental health issues. One study shows that these Friendship Benches work better than conventional treatments.
Many of Rwanda’s illegal street vendors are women, many of whom are struggling to raise children alone. Now they’re in the crosshairs of a state crackdown, facing endemic sexual harassment.
Nearly 2 million Ugandans were displaced in the country’s civil war. Most have returned home in the past decade, but many are finding it hard to prove their lands belong to them.
While most Californians are in favor of using recycled water for nonpotable purposes, research has found that only 11 percent would drink it. A Stanford study examines the reasons why and the policy implications.
The United States’ inaction in the face of Iraqi forces recapturing Kurdish-held territory raises doubts over the extent of Washington’s commitment to Kurdish groups in Syria, writes journalist Abdulrahman al-Masri.
Jellyfish are thriving as warming seas, acidification and deoxygenation threaten other marine life. After long ignoring the beautiful but mysterious creatures, scientists are trying to figure out what makes them such survivors in the age of climate change.
Without major dams, the Cosumnes River presents a great opportunity for restoration, which has prompted a coalition to begin a basin-scale project and a new roadmap for watershed stewardship.
New findings from the World Economic Forum show the world has slipped backward on gender equality for the first time since 2006, and it could take more than 200 years to close the economic gap between men and women.
Female street artists in Colombia are using the once male-dominated art form to challenge preconceptions about gender and race, and combat violence against women.
Turkey said last week that its campaign in Idlib was nearly complete, but recent talk over further expansion in Aleppo’s countryside signal that its operations in northern Syria may be far from over.
The Emerald City is eliminating millions of plastic straws thanks to a collaboration between activists, business and the maker of a marine-safe alternative to a ubiquitous product. Now the campaign is moving to other major cities.
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