After a Decade Cleaning the Himalayas, He’s Sending 1 Kg of Waste Back With Each Kedarnath Pilgrim
The Better Indiaby Sriroopa Dutta·20 Aug 2026
Every year, millions of people make the steep climb to Kedarnath. This year, environmental activist Pradeep Sangwan wants them to carry something back with their memories: a kilogram of waste.
Destructive and delicious: how an invasive deer in Hawaii is being turned into dinner
Wildlife | The Guardianby Kiki Aranita·20 Aug 2026
In 1868, the government of Hong Kong gave eight axis deer to Hawaii’s King Kamehameha V. They were a beautiful gift, these creatures that hail from south Asia, with their honey-colored pelts marked...
Pixel Weather gets a fresh look and a handy new forecast detail with the latest update
Android Authorityby Hillary Keverenge·20 Aug 2026
Pixel Weather gets a fresh look and a handy new forecast detail with the latest update Aug 20, 2026 — 5:42 AM ET - Pixel Weather is getting its new white-background icon on older Pixel models after...
EPR in Asia Pacific: Even with Asia’s strictest recycling system, South Korea burns more plastic than it recycles
Down To Earthby Vanhishikha Vyas·20 Aug 2026
South Korea threw away 7.8 million tonnes of household and commercial plastic in 2024. In 2022, the country generated 103.9 kilogrammes of plastic waste per person, the second-highest figure in the...
Filipino Cacao Growers Learn to Live With a Hotter Climate
Yale E360by August·20 Aug 2026
In the Philippines, ideal growing conditions for cacao have fueled an industry with a market value of more than $400 million.
How Europe can better protect against extreme wildfires
DW Englishby Tim Schauenberg·20 Aug 2026
From Spain and France to Portugal, Greece and Italy, the list of European countries affected by particularly severe wildfires is long.
Life in the dark: The daily agony of Venezuela’s power crisis
El País Englishby Florantonia Singer·20 Aug 2026
Sonia Soto’s days are six hours shorter. Those are the hours she spends without electricity. During them, all she wants to do is lock herself in her bathroom and cry. “It is very hard.
More than 1,000 birds found dead in three mass mortality events amid ‘significant’ H5 escalation in Australia
Environment | The Guardianby Lisa Cox Environment and climate correspondent·20 Aug 2026
The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has declared a “significant escalation” in H5 bird flu in the state after the detection of three mass mortality events involving more than 1,000...
Who’s most at risk in the cyclospora outbreak? The farmworkers on the front lines.
Gristby Frida Garza·20 Aug 2026
Earlier this summer, when the news broke about an outbreak of cyclosporiasis — a parasitic infection that results in abdominal distress and is passed on via food or water that has been contaminated...
Climate change drove extreme July heat in European seas, study finds
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta·20 Aug 2026
European coastal waters recorded unprecedented sea surface temperatures in July 2026. A new study has found that human-induced climate change primarily drove the temperature surge, pushing marine...
How Florida quietly removed climate change content from textbooks
Gristby Katie Worth·20 Aug 2026
Had Florida’s high school marine biology students read the original draft of their textbook, they would have learned about research that found climate change is killing at least 150,000 people per...
In a new book, an artist recalls working with Mumbai’s Koli fisherwomen to preserve their traditions
Scroll.inby Parag Tandel·20 Aug 2026
The Son Koli, a fishing community, are original inhabitants of Greater Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane, in western Maharashtra.
Shocked, Then Trucked. Why BC Arranges Road Trips for Live Fish | The Tyee
The Tyeeby Sarah Cox·20 Aug 2026
In a scenario that sounds like something in a Dr. Seuss book, bull trout and other fish are travelling past the Site C dam on the back of a Ford pickup truck as part of an elaborate plan to save...
Why Do We Feed Wildlife? | The Tyee
The Tyeeby Michelle Gamage·20 Aug 2026
As British Columbians flock to outdoor spaces it’s important to remember that feeding wildlife is bad for them, say experts. As in, really bad for them.
Ecotourism in India: From Conservation to Commercialisation
Frontlineby Prakriti Srivastava; Ghazala Shahabuddin·20 Aug 2026
Ecotourism came to India in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2002, the United Nations launched the International Year of Ecotourism to promote sustainable travel globally.
A legacy unravels
Down To Earthby Sayantani Deb·20 Aug 2026
A century ago, there was a huge demand for shitol pati (cool mats) made of murta plants because they were one of the most effective ways to beat the heat during summers.
‘The only way is up’: cycling Norway’s mountainous ‘Milky Way’
Travel | The Guardianby Ailsa Sheldon·20 Aug 2026
‘Norway is a hilly country,” shrugs Glenn Roar Berge. He’s not wrong, though he is fond of an understatement.
Indigenous fishers rethink shark hunting & protect species on Colombia’s coast
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu·20 Aug 2026
- In the Colombian department of La Guajira, at South America’s northernmost tip, Indigenous Wayuu fishers from the community of Punta Gallinas are working with marine biologists to conserve and...
Nepal pushes for hydropower in protected areas through legal grey area
Mongabay Globalby Abhaya Raj Joshi·20 Aug 2026
- Nepal’s government is allowing hydropower development inside protected areas, despite a January 2025 Supreme Court ruling that invalidates the legal provision for this activity.
The first wave of bird flu is the worst: what Australia can learn from overseas
Environment + Energy - The Conversationby Bethany J Hoye, Lecturer in Animal Ecology, University of Wollongong·20 Aug 2026
Hundreds of dead birds are now being reported as the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu begins to spread across Australia. Government reports show the virus is circulating in resident birds.
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