Insights: WRI's Blog

He endured kidnappings, assaults and attacks. But after more than a decade of protests and court battles, Prafulla Samantara stopped an open-pit bauxite mine from threatening India's Dongria Kondh tribe.

There are 2 billion hectares of degraded land around the globe. Restoring it could not only put food on the table, it could create hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Science has never been quite so threatened in the United States. That's why this weekend's March for Science—and the actions that follow—are so important.

The Pacific Northwest gets even greener with a new offering that enables companies and cities to access renewable energy.

The upcoming March for Science is an opportunity to push for evidence-based solutions. But real change comes not from placard-waving, but from the tireless, low-profile actions we each take every day at work, in town hall meetings and in our homes.

As senior advisers converge on the White House, here are five huge reasons President Trump should keep the United States in the Paris Agreement.

Mexico is establishing a carbon price in order to reduce its emissions 22 percent below 2000 levels by 2030; 50 percent by 2050. As other countries like China and Singapore pursue similar plans, they can learn from Mexico's progress.

Daniel Vennard chats about the work of the Better Buying Lab in working with consumers and producers to shift diets towards healthier, more ecologically sound foods.

A new generation of corporate water targets will take the local context, the most recent science and stakeholder needs into account.

The world's top three emitters contribute 14 times the emissions of the bottom 100. The CAIT Climate Data Explorer reveals this and other findings.