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There’s a deadly new strain of the mpox virus going around. How worried should we be – and how much have we learned from the COVID-19 pandemic?
In this ThinkLandscape digest, hear from top health experts, get the lowdown on vaccines and discover biodiversity fixes to help prevent future disease outbreaks.
The EU Nature Restoration Law has officially entered into force. What could that mean for ecosystems in Europe and beyond?
Thought AI was just ChatGPT and self-driving cars? Think again. Scientists and farmers are using it to heal the planet and secure our food supply.
And in Kenya, there’s even an app to help farmers climate-proof their crops.
Meet two remarkable women restoring Africa’s forests, and hear from young landscape heroes on the trouble with tree planting and the struggle to be heard in the halls of power.
Mpox is once again a global public health emergency. But what’s really going on, and why are children especially at risk?
UNICEF has issued an emergency tender for vaccines, which are in short supply in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the epicenter of the outbreak.
In more positive news, these heroic Congolese rangers have brought elephants and zebras back from near extinction – often by putting themselves in the firing line.
Just how bad is red meat for your body? A new study links the consumption of red and processed meats with type 2 diabetes.
Could a basic income save the planet? An Indigenous community tried it out in the Peruvian Amazon – here’s what happened.
Meet the bovine bringing back biodiversity to abandoned marshes: the humble water buffalo.
In just seven years, the world’s largest African penguin colony has nearly died out. The reason? It’s too loud.
Is this the world’s largest environmental restoration project? A new multi-billion dollar reservoir will provide drinking water for nearly 9 billion people.
The Earth – and especially the ocean – is heating up even more quickly than expected. Scientists fear they might no longer have the answers.
The climate crisis is getting really expensive for African countries, which are losing up to 5 percent of their GDP to its impacts each year.
Last year, wildfires in Canada emitted more carbon than the burning of fossil fuels in almost every country in the world. Meanwhile, fires in the Brazilian Amazon have reached a 14-year high.
Heat deaths in Europe are set to triple by the end of the century. In India, the climate crisis is deadly in surprising ways, such as making lightning strikes more common.
Chocolate production is incredibly wasteful, only using cocoa beans and throwing the pods away – but that could soon change.
Here’s another reason to buy used jeans: you’re helping save 16,000 bottles of water.
Green hydrogen sells, but who’s buying?
Serbia wants to become a force in lithium production, but its people are dead set against mining it.
Which climate policies actually work? A new study highlights these 63 success stories out of a total of 1,500 policies across 41 countries.
At the COP29 climate summit in November, countries will aim to decide how to fund climate loss and damage – but they’re still worlds apart.
Pacific Island nations are demanding more concrete action from Australia, with whom they hope to co-host COP31 in 2026.
South Korea, too, will have to step up its decarbonization game, its Constitutional Court has ruled.
For 80 years, the U.S. and Mexico have agreed to share the water from the Rio Grande and the Colorado River. But as the climate crisis bites, will the treaty survive?
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