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People in wealthy, industrialized countries are used to finding their supermarket shelves fully stocked. Yet for a brief period early in the COVID-19 pandemic, some of those shelves emptied out, as panic drove shoppers to stockpile and supply chains were interrupted.

The most comprehensive global analysis of community forestry ever undertaken shows that government policies formalizing local residents' land access and resource rights often backfire by resulting in less access and weakened rights.

Some of the world's most valuable ecosystems are facing a "triple threat" to their long-term durability and survival, new research shows.

Australian research shows the Covid-19 pandemic could spark a food crisis in the Pacific.

A remote community in the Solomon Islands has scored a huge victory against a mining company, which had planned to dig an open-pit mine on their tiny island.

Coral reefs are vibrant communities that host a quarter of all species in the ocean and are indirectly crucial to the survival of the rest. But they are slowly dying—some estimates say 30 to 50 percent of reefs have been lost—due to climate change.

After banning plastic bags last year, New Zealand now proposes to regulate single-use plastic packaging and to ban various hard-to-recycle plastics and single-use plastic items.

Joe Biden’s presidential ascension had not even been settled when Fiji’s forthright prime minister was already urging greater US action on climate change from the incoming American leader. “Congratulations Joe Biden,” Frank Bainimarama tweeted on Saturday afternoon.

Sharks are in the news, but not for their normal shenanigans.

With support from the Vanuatu Fisheries Department (VFD) Takara village, North Efate, launched an extension of its Community-Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) plan during a signing ceremony on Friday, October 23rd 2020.