Turning the Tide on Large-Scale Hydropower
In Colombia, activists and scientists are boosting mega-dam resistance by showing the cumulative impacts of these destructive projects. DANIEL HENRYK RASOLT This story was originally published by Earth Island Journal Miller Dussán is one of those rare people who...
Guardians of the Forest: Can Securing Indigenous Land Rights Help Combat Climate Change and Prevent the Next Pandemic?
This article was originally published online and then in print by Terralingua - Langscape Magazine Traditional Indigenous territories are complex, adaptable, and resilient socio-ecological systems that contain the majority of the world’s biocultural diversity. But can...
Colombia’s Dynamic Rivers: Integrated Interpretations and the Rights of Nature
Integrated interpretations of rivers as vital and interconnected living and evolving entities have extensive practical application — from their revered preservation throughout Indigenous territories, to modern adaptations of holistic Indigenous worldviews, to advances...
The Powerful Alliance Between Integrated Science and Traditional Food Systems
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt This article was originally published as a CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystem (WLE) Thrive Blog The longest running successful experiments in sustainable human land use are found within the collectively held lands of...
From a Vibrant Past to a Desolate Future: La Guajira and the Wayuu Tribe of Colombia
La Guajira is a dry and windy peninsular desert region between Northeast Colombia and Northwest Venezuela. The striking landscape has been harsh and borderline uninhabitable for many thousands of years. The southernmost parts of the peninsula border the...
Changing Oceans: Food Security and Health Concerns
Changes to the Ocean’s temperature and chemistry are driving a possible food and health crisis for many impoverished people in the developing world. These changes will also have profound impacts on the diets and economies of wealthier nations and global economic...
Ocean Acidification: The Human Caused Chemical and Ecological Shifts of the Seas
Earth’s Oceans are vast and beautiful worlds that cover 71% of our planet, but their inner workings still remain very much a mystery; an estimated 95% of the Ocean is still left to be explored. Its greatest depths and countless “webs” and symbiotic relationships...
The True Cost: Negative Externalities of Energy and Food and Failures of the Free Market
Climate change is a reality, and the depletion of a whole range of fundamental ecosystems and resources of our planet is staring us right in the face. Along with rising global health problems related to pollution and diet, how is it that so many of the principal...