Environment & Climate Reporter
Nadia tracks the frontlines of climate action, from rewilding successes to the clean energy transition reshaping economies.
The Earth is home to more plant and animal species than we can count. As humans, when we respect the land and the animals that live on it, we can all live together in perfect harmony. Of course, sometimes that’s harder than it sounds. Wild animals sometimes live up to their names and cause surprisin...
Thousands of tonnes of non-recyclable wind turbine blades are coming to the end of their lives....
Phillip Calmer has been farming on his 150-year-old family farm in northwest Iowa for half a century. Today, he and his wife Jody grow 1,200 acres of corn and soybeans, raise pigs outdoors, and support three staff members including their sons. But the Calmers emphasize that their family-scale, indep...
Healthy ecosystems depend on more than just having lots of species—they rely on the complex relationships between plants, prey and predators, according to new international research led by the University of Waikato and the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). Published in the ...
Palmyra Atoll in the North Pacific is one of the most remote island systems on Earth. A native rainforest tree on the island performs a critical ecological service by providing nesting sites for thousands of seabirds, whose guano fuels the surrounding coral reefs. But a new study revealed that this ...
Hydrogen is a promising clean-burning fuel for trucks, ships, and airplanes. The global demand for hydrogen has nearly doubled over the past two decades. But most hydrogen today does not come from a green source, over 95% comes from natural gas or as a byproduct of petrochemical processes. At the sa...
The U.K government has announced that it will advance long-delayed regulations on commodities linked to deforestation. On June 23, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) issued a press release promising to “take forward new rules” that will force companies in Great Britain to...
The program has been a staple for conservationists since 1989....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Sightings of humpback whales off Rio de Janeiro’s coast are surging as they recover from decimation due to commercial whaling, prompting an acceleration in the demand for whale-watching excursions to spot the huge marine creatures during their annual migration. The species’ pop...
London Climate Action Week (LCAW) kicked off in June amid an unprecedented European heat wave and with a special statement by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warning, “We have just lived through the eleven hottest years ever recorded … with higher temperatures to come. London isn’t...
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Deaths linked to air pollution in London fell an estimated 40 percent between 2019 and 2024, according to a new Imperial College London study.
What’s a winemaker to do on a warming planet? Much has been written about how climate change threatens viticulture around the globe — or at least, threatens to fundamentally change the practice. A long-lasting drought in Chile is forcing winemakers to rethink irrigation systems. Vintners in Californ...
Step aside World Cup heroes, there’s a bigger global competition in town. The whistle has been blown to launch the third Invertebrate of the Year contest.We want you to nominate your favourite spineless creature for the hugely popular annual Guardian jamboree which celebrates the wonder and importan...
Originally reported and written in July 2023, this story has been republished as part of our archival content. Telling stories thoughtfully through objects and materials has been a core message that Daera — an interior and product design studio based in Delhi — has prided itself on since its incepti...
A flower you may have in your backyard or have seen in a public garden has been found to contain a surprisingly high amount of protein. It could transform how we think of "ornamental" plants – and flowers in general....
COBH, Ireland — On a bright, warm day in April in Cobh, Ireland, I step down a centuries-old cobbled slipway that descends into a harbor packed with fishing boats. Halfway down, something interrupts the weathered wall: an installation of 60 hexagonal concrete panels bolted into the stone. Some panel...
They tower overhead and sway in the wind and often teem with squawking birds, yet trees are easy to ignore. Urbanites rush by them without noticing, and without appreciating all the work they do: Trees reduce temperatures, mitigate flooding, and provide habitat for animals. City leaders are no excep...
For decades, animals along the north-south migration corridor of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State faced a harrowing obstacle: a six-lane highway where tens of thousands of motor vehicles sped by every day. In late 2018, the Washington State Department of Highways teamed up with the United S...
Three fishermen were cruising for fish in the Chesapeake Bay when they came across the biggest sea turtle species in the world....
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. Not easy being green The saga of the algae-filled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continues, with the U.S. N...