At a time when governments, courts, and communities around the world are grappling with accelerating biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and climate disruption, Callie Veelenturf is advancing a bold idea that could fundamentally reshape humanity’s relationship with the natural world: Nature has inherent rights. Callie Veelenturf is a marine conservation biologist,
A new presidency of the region’s top environmental forum signals a shift from declarations to delivery— backed by forests, finance reform, and institutional overhaul Panama is attempting something ambitious: transforming one of the world’s longest-running regional environmental forums from a platform of dialogue into an engine for measurable results. At
Celebrating the Voice That Taught Humanity to See the Earth Few individuals in modern history have done more to shape humanity’s relationship with the natural world than Sir David Attenborough. As the legendary broadcaster and natural historian celebrates his 100th birthday, the milestone marks more than the longevity of an
Long before it became one of the most consequential environmental forums in the world, EarthX began as a bold idea from Trammell S. Crow. Launched in 2011 as Earth Day Dallas, the initiative started as a community-driven environmental fair. Within less than a decade, it grew into a massive public
DALLAS — On Earth Day, inside the packed halls of EarthX’s 2026 Nature Summit, Panama did not just show up as a participant. It arrived with a proposition to reshape the global framework itself. At the flagship forum of Global Resilience Partners (GRP), where governments, investors, and philanthropies converge to
A new phenomenon is unfolding across the world’s oceans—one that scientists are only beginning to understand. Vast “super-groups” of humpback whales, sometimes numbering in the hundreds or even thousands, are gathering in dense, coordinated feeding events that challenge long-held assumptions about how these animals behave. For a species once pushed
At a moment when climate shocks, economic volatility, and resource scarcity are converging, the World Bank Group has launched two sweeping initiatives aimed at tackling some of the most fundamental constraints to global development: water insecurity and the structural fragility of small states. Announced during the Spring Meetings in Washington,
Tripoli — In a country long defined by oil, a new agreement between Libya’s Ministry of Marine Resources and the United Nations Development Programme signals a strategic pivot: toward the sea, and toward a more diversified economic future. The memorandum of understanding, signed this week, aims to advance Libya’s “blue
The world is watching the Strait of Hormuz for oil. It may soon realize it should have been watching it for food. As tensions escalate between the United States, Israel, and Iran, the narrow maritime corridor—long viewed as the world’s most critical energy chokepoint—is emerging as something more consequential: a
WASHINGTON — A little-known federal panel with the power to override the United States’ most powerful environmental law has been revived for the first time in decades—and its decision could determine the fate of one of the rarest species on Earth. This week, under the Donald Trump administration, the Endangered
