This event will address the challenges and opportunities in "urban mining" across the US, EU, China, and Kenya, exploring emerging policies and promising innovations in EV battery reuse and recycling.

In Uganda’s Busoga kingdom, seven sugar mills process the sugarcane grown on roughly 110,000 hectares in the region. The growth in this activity has been significant; the territory now comprises [...]

This interview was originally held in French. The French version can be found here. Cet entretien est également disponible en français ici.  Investments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [...]

Young people should be able to hold public officials and service providers accountable for meeting their needs and rights. And this principle—known as youth social accountability—can also have a [...]

Environmental shocks have been linked to significant changes in human migration around the world. Yet the large literature on environmental change and migration to date has primarily focused on [...]

How changing demographic trends are reshaping U.S. strategy in the 21st century.

At the recent G20 meeting in June 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres gave an ominous warning: “Unless we limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees [...]

The Population Institute’s recent report, Invisible Threads: Addressing the root causes of migration from Guatemala by investing in women and girls, has brought attention to the numerous factors [...]

Fifty-three years have passed since the 1972 United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment that led to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Yet a [...]

Native nations in the United States have played leading roles in some of the country’s most spectacular conservation success stories. For instance, calls by the Yurok, Karuk and Hoopa [...]

Last week, an estimated 60,000 Moroccans crossed the border into Ceuta, a Spanish city located in North Africa. The surge left more than 80 people dead, and early reporting suggested that the [...]

No matter how it finally ends, the conflict with Iran likely will drive up green technology profits for China. The war also seems certain to have a lasting energy impact on the many Global South [...]

The negative environmental impacts of the Cobre Panamá copper mine sparked massive, nationwide protests in Panama in 2023. Over 100 people were injured in the unrest,  and over 1,200 people were [...]

In April 2026, a missing herd of cows in the northeast mountains of Laos set off a confrontation between villagers and a Chinese rare earth mining company. The villagers in Houaphanh Province had [......

This article was originally published by African Arguments and has been lightly edited for style. On March 19th, the president undertook a historic two-day trip to London, the first by a Nigerian [......

In Ghana, illegal mining is commonly known as “galamsey,” derived from the phrase “gather them and sell.” It is an informal and unregulated small-scale mining activity that provides alternative [...]

Excerpted from the Environmental Security Program’s new issue brief, What Demographic Trends Mean for U.S. Policy — full brief available on the Stimson Center website. Population dynamics [...]

This article was cross-posted from The Journal of Population and Sustainability. In a special report published in Bioscience almost 4 years ago (“World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency [...]

Nearly two-thirds of citizens across seven Ouagadougou Partnership countries say women should be free to decide if and when to marry, but fewer than half believe women should have the same say [...]

This article was originally published by the Center for Global Development. This spring in Washington, DC, World Bank president Ajay Banga announced a major new initiative, “Water Forward,” with [...]

In the coming months, El Niño is expected to worsen drought, flood, heat, and storm conditions around the world. Despite its potential to amplify existing vulnerabilities and crises, there has [...]

“Only one thing now stands between the ocean and the capital it needs: the decision to act. And a delayed decision is never neutral. The cost of waiting…is paid by those who come after us,” [...]

This article was originally published on The Science Diplomat. For decades, scientists have warned that rising seas would increase the risk of coastal flooding. What has been harder to determine [...]

The world is facing compounding environmental crises from biodiversity loss to land degradation to the climate crisis. For decades, policy responses have treated these issues as separate [...]

De-risking energy is a key element of geopolitical focus in our moment. This is especially true now, as energy security, diversifying supply routes, protecting shipping lanes, and insulating [...]

The ongoing conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran imposes significant costs beyond the immense loss of life and destruction of vital infrastructure throughout the region. It also [...]

The infrastructure powering artificial intelligence (AI) has become both a political flashpoint and a signal for strategic warfare with significant military, geopolitical, and international [...]

The relationship between climate vulnerability and political instability is clear. Twenty-two of the 30 countries ranked as the most vulnerable to climate change in 2025 also were categorized as [...]

When armed groups began threatening a community in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that had recently gained access to solar-powered electricity, something unexpected happened. Rather than [...]

Wildlife trafficking is one of the most lucrative and destructive criminal enterprises in the world. Valued at more than $20 billion annually, these criminal networks impact more than 4,000 plant [......

Devastating floods in Mokwa, a rural town in Niger State, claimed lives and destroyed homes and livelihoods in May 2025, and displaced many other residents as well. Yet, in Nigeria today, such [...]

Join us for an online discussion on how the conflict in the Middle East is reshaping environmental and human security across the Middle East and North Africa region.

The US–Israeli war launched against Iran in 2026 may be remembered as the moment fossil-fuel dependence became more than a mere abstraction for the Global South. Brent crude quickly surged past [...]