Let’s Hear Them Out! Interview with Eva Meijer
According to Aristotle, human beings are the only political species. Aristotle, however, lived 23 centuries ago. And despite the influence of his thinking on Western culture, the moral, rational and...
World Environment Day 2026: A Global Call for Climate Action
On 5 June 2026, governments, institutions, businesses and civil society organisations worldwide will mark World Environment Day, one of the United Nations’ most important environmental awarene...
From Jaguars to Sharks: Protecting Wildlife Against Transnational Crime
From Mexico to Argentina, through Central America and Brazil, wildlife trafficking has evolved from a marginal crime into a key component of transnational organized crime, closely linked to drug tra...
Beesline, a beauty brand committed to saving the bees
This article is part of our Beauty and Cosmetics feature: discover it here Combining the use of ingredients derived from bees with a focus on protecting biodiversity and conserving pollinators: thi...
Biodiversity Day 2026, acting locally for global impact
Biodiversity is increasingly recognised as one of the most strategic resources for the stability of ecosystems, economies and public health systems worldwide. Yet global biodiversity loss continues ...
Fishcon: Technology to Help Fish Pass Through Dams and Hydropower Plants
Based in Linz, Austria, Fishcon has designed a new generation of passes for fish and aquatic organisms, called Fishcon Lock or 2-Chamber Organism Bypass. The technology is based on a patented hydrau...
Oxygen Conservation: investing in natural capital
A vast expanse of moorland stretching to the horizon, ponds teeming with life, and the cold waters of the Scottish sea: these are among the images that greet visitors to the Oxygen Conservation...
Hillary Rosner, reconnecting humanity and nature in a fractured world
Journalistic coverage on the climate crisis and its environmental consequences has often overlooked the change in land use and its effects on wildlife movement. This is the focus of Roam: wild ...
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...