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Natural Resources

In India, Indigenous Women Make ‘Dream Maps’ To Protect Lands From Warming

"At a small stream in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The bounty of communal farming, foraging and fishing marks the start of a new season."

Source: AP, 05/27/2025

Suit Challenges Trump Order To Allow Commercial Fishing In Pacific Monument

"Environmentalists are challenging in court President Trump’s executive order that they say strips core protections from the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument and opens the area to harmful commercial fishing."

Source: LA Times, 05/27/2025

"How Dried-Out Wetlands On The Iran/Iraq Border Threaten The Region"

"The dust storms that have choked Iranians and Iraqis for weeks and hospitalised thousands, are the canary in the coalmine for a complex environmental disaster unfolding in wetlands straddling the two countries' border."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 05/22/2025

"EPA Defunds Research Into PFAS Contamination on Farms"

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has canceled grant funding to university research teams studying how “forever chemicals” contaminate soil and groundwater, including at least $3 million for two projects specifically looking at contamination on farms."

Source: Civil Eats, 05/22/2025

"On ‘World Bee Day,’ The Bees Did Not Seem Bothered. They Should Be"

"Bees and other pollinators have been on the decline for years, and experts blame a combination of factors: insecticides, parasites, disease, climate change and lack of a diverse food supply. A significant part of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by bees — not just honeybees, but hundreds of species of lesser-known wild bees, many of which are endangered."

Source: AP, 05/21/2025

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