What is beewashing?
Who doesn't remember the cartoon Maya the Honey Bee, first released in the 1970s, in which a curious little bee explores the world with her friend Will? Over the decades, through advertising, t...
Stopping the rise of the lakes in the Rift Valley
Last year, around five thousand people were displaced by the rising water level of Lake Naivasha, 50 kilometres from Nairobi. Similarly happened on Lakes Nakuru and Lake Baringo, located further nor...
Massimo Labra: “Biodiversity is Italy's real productive asset”
Biodiversity is not just about agriculture, fishing or forests. It affects every business, even ones that don't realise it. This is one of the clearest messages from the new Business and Biodiv...
IPBES 2026 Report: business-as-usual is eroding biodiversity, but companies can benefit from saving it
When he first began working on these topics, Matt Jones liked to pose a challenge: name a business activity that does not, in some way, depend on biodiversity. “No one has ever managed to prov...
Ocean Economy, without reporting obligations, biodiversity and ecosystems are at risk
On 17 January, the High Seas Treaty (Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, BBNJ) entered into force, aimed at protecting the ocean and managing maritime activities in international waters ...
Earth may be in crisis, but we can still choose our future: UNEP GEO-7
In one of Africa's major cities, Nairobi, Kenya, the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) is being held in early December. In this context, UNEP has published the new&...
Animal testing: Nearly 400,000 fish used in EU chemical tests
A total of 382,000 fish have been used in completed, ongoing and pending tests required under the European REACH regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) to ...
Startup, Collie: an App and a Collar to Manage Grazing Herds Remotely
"Virtual fencing allows animals to be managed without direct human labour," Collie co-founder Chris Bloomfield tells Renewable Matter. "By training not only cattle, but animals in general to re...
In memory of Jane Goodall
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Republished below is the interview conducted in 2018 by Editor-in-Chief Emanuele Bompan to celebra...
Perspectives on the animal world: RM58 interviews
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Think Tank section of Renewable Matter #58, devoted to Animals, explores the complex contradic...
Animal Testing: A Still Necessary Evil?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Penicillin, insulin, HIV treatments, organ transplants and prosthetic surgeries, chemotherapy, vac...
The Animal Kingdom
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Until the age of 18, I was a vegetarian. Veganism existed as a practice, but the word had not...
Navigating wetland conservation in challenging political climates
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Convention on Wetlands COP15, which concluded at the end July in Zimbabwe, left me with much f...
The vital role of soil diversity for sustainable agriculture
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The smell of wet earth is unmistakable and evokes something in all human beings. But why do we lik...
Biodiversity is not a given
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano “What we need now is political courage, social commitment and the practical implementation o...
How does climate change affect coral reefs?
This article is also avilable in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Coral reefs, often described as the “rainforests of the sea,” are critical to marine bi...
From the Pacific to Sicily: the relentless Mediterranean odyssey of the Asian seaweed
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Edoardo Piretto’s weathered hands have been scraping scales off fish since he was nine, in t...
Integrating Knowledge for the Conservation of Amazonian Biodiversity
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Amazon is the biome of superlatives. As the world's largest tropical forest and often describe...
Third UN Ocean Conference: a missed opportunity to protect marine life
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Frome Nice - The Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) concluded on Friday, the 13th of Ju...
Salmon farming in Iceland: the environmental toll of a growing industry
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Once a symbol of toil and tradition, fishing is undergoing a profound transformation. Today, much ...