Restoring the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta: Reversing a Century of Colombian Tragedy
Can science and tradition finally help heal the region’s peoples and bring balance to its biodiversity-rich waters and mangrove forests? This article was originally published by The Revelator When I visited the floating palafito fishing village of Nueva...
Traditional Colombian fishers fight for their rights and protection of vital wetlands
Interconnected socio-ecological issues threaten the ecosystems of the Mompós Depression Wetlands and the traditional fishing communities who rely on and safeguard them This article was originally published as a Climate Home News special feature, with support from the...
Páramos at Risk: The Interconnected Threats to a Biodiversity Hotspot
The pressures of climate change and human land use could lead to the disappearance of unique biodiversity and vital ecological services. DANIEL HENRYK RASOLT This article was originally published by The Revelator On a recent, pre-pandemic journey to the High Andes of...
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...
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...
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...
The Delusion and Impacts of Hydropower
Touted by many renewable energy and sustainable development proponents as an important solution to the interconnected challenges of climate change and poverty, the reality of hydropower is far more complex. Not all hydropower is created equal. The efficiency of...
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...
Fearful Symmetry
Without question, one of the most exquisitely beautiful and powerful animals on this planet is the Malayan Tiger. While I may have nearly been a small supper for one of these critically endangered felines, my adoration and respect does not waver. I was on a...