You are here: Homepage Tag environment Articles A harvest worker picks avocados for export Photo: Axel Javier Sulzbacher Environment | Mexico Avocados: The green gold rush The global appetite for avocados is generating big bucks in Michoacán. Behind the scenes, criminal groups illegally clear forests and steal municipal water for cultivation. The risks are large but the benefits remain in the hands of a few By Heriberto Paredes Coronel 10/28/2024 Wang Chung-Yong watches a dredger Photo: Ann Wang / Reuters Raw materials | Taiwan The sand pirates Chinese freighters are hunting for one of the world's most coveted raw materials off the Taiwanese coast. But the search for sand poses a problem not just for Taipei, but for Beijing By Will Yang, Yian Lee 06/01/2023 Peruvians at Laguna Azul Photo: Eva Tempelmann Raw materials | Peru You can’t drink gold In the Andes, water is a scarce resource. But gold mines in the region require enormous amounts of water and pollute their environment. Their owners do not seem to care By Máxima Acuña de Chaupe 07/01/2022 A wreck on the ground of dried up Aral Sea some 60 kms from the city of Aralsk Photo: Vyacheslav Oseledko / AFP / Getty Images Environment | Kazakhstan “We can’t bring back the Aral Sea” Kazakh ecologist Zauresh Alimbetova is fighting to save what was once the world's fourth largest lake. A nature reserve is now flourishing in the dried-up zone. A conversation Interview with Zauresh Alimbetova 07/01/2022 Thierry Lebrun in front of his house, on the beach polluted by Sargassum weed Photo: Fanny Fontan Environment | Martinique The brown plague The French island of Martinique is under attack from rotting Sargasso algae and the toxic gases it releases By Fanny Fontan 07/01/2022
A harvest worker picks avocados for export Photo: Axel Javier Sulzbacher Environment | Mexico Avocados: The green gold rush The global appetite for avocados is generating big bucks in Michoacán. Behind the scenes, criminal groups illegally clear forests and steal municipal water for cultivation. The risks are large but the benefits remain in the hands of a few By Heriberto Paredes Coronel 10/28/2024
Wang Chung-Yong watches a dredger Photo: Ann Wang / Reuters Raw materials | Taiwan The sand pirates Chinese freighters are hunting for one of the world's most coveted raw materials off the Taiwanese coast. But the search for sand poses a problem not just for Taipei, but for Beijing By Will Yang, Yian Lee 06/01/2023
Peruvians at Laguna Azul Photo: Eva Tempelmann Raw materials | Peru You can’t drink gold In the Andes, water is a scarce resource. But gold mines in the region require enormous amounts of water and pollute their environment. Their owners do not seem to care By Máxima Acuña de Chaupe 07/01/2022
A wreck on the ground of dried up Aral Sea some 60 kms from the city of Aralsk Photo: Vyacheslav Oseledko / AFP / Getty Images Environment | Kazakhstan “We can’t bring back the Aral Sea” Kazakh ecologist Zauresh Alimbetova is fighting to save what was once the world's fourth largest lake. A nature reserve is now flourishing in the dried-up zone. A conversation Interview with Zauresh Alimbetova 07/01/2022
Thierry Lebrun in front of his house, on the beach polluted by Sargassum weed Photo: Fanny Fontan Environment | Martinique The brown plague The French island of Martinique is under attack from rotting Sargasso algae and the toxic gases it releases By Fanny Fontan 07/01/2022