Dialogue Earth

21/08/2026

Economist Mariana Mazzucato explores why traditional economic models fall short, and how a common-good economy can empower communities. She also makes the case for the role culture should play in the fight against climate change.

🗣️ "Culture needs to be integrated into industrial policy, rather than isolated from it."

✍️ Fermin Koop
📸 1: Zô Guimarães / UN Climate Change, University College London, 2: University College London

18/08/2026

🚨 NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨

We are hiring a Brazil Editor to join our editorial team.

Dialogue Earth is seeking a Brazil editor to spearhead its coverage of South America’s largest economy. The editor will play a key role in commissioning and editing articles on the most pressing environment and climate issues in Brazil and help formulate editorial strategy.

📅 Application deadline: 12pm (GMT), Tuesday 8th September.

👉 Find out more: https://loom.ly/9efi1Js

Location: Brazil Position: Brazil Editor Hours: 16 hours/2 days per week Contract type: 12 month consultancy contract (subject to renewal). We cannot support working visas for this position. Day rate: USD $250 Start time: As soon as possible Application deadline: 12pm (GMT), Tuesday 8th September 20...

18/08/2026

Around the world, the AI policy debate has revolved around questions of safety, economic competition and employment.
Less attention has been paid to how AI expansion may affect environments, water and biodiversity, or the rights of communities whose territories and knowledge are being encroached upon.

Chadian environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim tells Dialogue Earth about the importance of bringing Indigenous perspectives to Africa’s AI governance debate. She says Indigenous peoples must be recognised as rights holders and decision-makers – especially when newfangled technology has implications for their lands or intellectual heritage.

💬 ”Without ecological guardrails, AI could accelerate extraction, consumption and infrastructure development in ways that place even greater pressure on ecosystems and Indigenous peoples. Many of the lands under pressure from the mineral, energy and infrastructure sectors are Indigenous peoples’ territories and biodiversity-rich areas.”
🔗 Read the Q&A on our website: https://loom.ly/WXvnX_o
✍️ Brian Obara
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Dialogue Earth speaks with the Chadian environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim about Indigenous perspectives on AI

18/08/2026

With no seat at the negotiating table, Brazil’s Indigenous movement is pushing for change using marches and underground policy proposals

🗣️ “We have shown that we, as Indigenous peoples, are not merely demanding a just energy transition; we are showing the way.” said Luene Karipuna, a leader from the Uaçá Indigenous territory in Oiapoque, northern Brazil.

🔗 Read more on our website.
✍️ Amanda Magnani
📸 Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá (Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá

14/08/2026

CALL FOR PITCHES: Photo stories on the human side of Africa's solar boom 🌍☀️

We're inviting pitches from photojournalists and photographer-and-journalist pairings on the human stories behind Africa's solar boom, and China's role in it.

Africa has become the fastest-growing market for Chinese solar manufacturers, with imports surging by nearly 50% in 2025. This could be transformational for energy access and development — but what does it actually look like, and feel like, on the ground?

📌 We're commissioning a series of photo-first features, each centred on a single protagonist in a different African country — visual vignettes grounding this complex energy transition in everyday, lived realities. We want the positives, the negatives, and the complexities.

We're keen to hear from all corners of the continent, including countries where solar is already having a big impact, and those where development has been slower.

Please note: we already have a story lined up for Kenya, so won't be accepting pitches from there.

We particularly welcome pitches from photojournalists or pairings with a strong connection to the community they plan to cover.

Compensation: USD 1,800, covering all fees and costs

⏰ Pitch deadline: 13 September 2026

Link in the comments

Credit: Rolf Schulten / imageBROKER / Alamy

14/08/2026

The first report card on the world’s plan to halt and reverse biodiversity loss is in — and not a single target was deemed to be on a fully positive trajectory.

The Global Review is the first attempt to measure how far governments have come to meeting the targets they agreed to nearly four years ago under the Global Biodiversity Framework.

National commitments would bring protected land and water to roughly 23% worldwide by 2030 – short of the 30×30 goal to protect 30% of the Earth’s land and sea by 2030. Meanwhile, biodiversity funding (USD 186 billion mobilised between 2020 and 2023) remains far below the USD 200 billion annual target set for 2030.

At October’s COP17 biodiversity summit in Armenia, governments will have to agree on how to interpret the Global Review’s findings. Experts hope this is the moment governments stop just cataloguing shortfalls and start setting deadlines to close them.

🔗 Read the full story on our website: https://loom.ly/D2WcWa8
✍️ Fermín Koop
📸 David Noton Photography / Alamy

Landmark UN review finds national biodiversity efforts are well short of 2030 targets, ahead of October’s COP17 summit in Armenia

13/08/2026

For more than four decades, the Chilean glaciologist Gino Casassa has studied the ice of Antarctica. At the start of his career, he was sceptical about whether humans were causing climate change.

Today, Casassa directs Chile’s leading Antarctic research organisation, the Chilean Antarctic Institute. And he sees a continent where human-wrought change is obvious.

💬 "Once a certain temperature is reached, the ice begins to melt regardless of any political debate."

🔗 Read the full story on our website: https://loom.ly/Jhd5HEQ
✍️ Fermín Koop
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Gino Casassa, director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute, reflects on his four decades on the ice and the challenges facing Antarctica

04/08/2026

As a child, Chan Kwok Leung shucked oysters with his father on the shore of Hong Kong’s Deep Bay. He is now 58 years old, and part of the sixth generation of oyster farmers in his family. But climate change is making farming harder for Chan and other oyster farmers like him.

Warming, saltier water has slowed oyster growth and contributes to die-offs every year. “Super typhoons” also batter the bamboo rafts used for farming for more hours per year, pushing increasing numbers of aging growers to retire their practice.

Chan has not left the oyster world. Instead, he is working with a team of scientists at the Swire Institute of Marine Science to breed a “super oyster” that can better survive Deep Bay’s increasingly salty waters.

Read the full story on our website.

🖋️ Regina Lam
📸Image credits:

1,7,8,9: The Swire Institute of Marine Science / University of Hong Kong
2: Chris Wong / Alamy
4,5,10: Shanshan Kao / Dialogue Earth
6: Wang Shen / Xinhua / Alamy
11: Shanshan Kao / Dialogue Earth

28/07/2026

One of Argentina’s last urban fishing communities is threatened by a new residential development.
Fishers in Remanso Valerio have had to adapt to the mighty cargo ships that sail down the Paraná towards the Atlantic, and the repeated dredging that has enabled this. Now, plans to dredge the river, and to build a large-scale residential development on its banks, threaten to transform the landscape.
At risk of disappearing is not just the memory of a community. It’s a living history that continues to influence daily life – the continuity of a deep relationship to a river that has shaped ways of working, social ties and a body of knowledge for generations.
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to read more
📸 Sebastian Lopez Brach
✍️ Sofía Garone

17/07/2026

As humanity’s emissions continue to warm the planet, extreme heat is posing growing risks for human health, especially for vulnerable populations like children and the elderly. But heat risk rarely gets the urgent, sustained attention given to storms or floods, partly because it’s invisible, and partly because most heat coverage either scares people without giving them anything to do, or quietly disappears once the news cycle moves on.

Social media content creators can help fix that. Join our panel of heat scientists and journalists to learn how to responsibly talk about extreme heat, its risks, and solutions — and how to squeeze it all into a 60 second video or five slide carousel.

🔹 Shalinee Kumari brings climate conversations closer to people, reporting on how climate change intersects with gender, policy, caste, and health as Dialogue Earth’s South Asia reporter. Her social media videos have reached hundreds of thousands throughout the region.

🔹 Maximiliano Manzoni is an award-winning Uruguayan climate journalist based in Paraguay, interested in new ways of narrating heat impacts. He runs Consenso, a media outlet focused on climate, justice and disinformation, where he combines hard-hitting investigative work with innovative visual work and humour in social media.

🔹 Kathryn Rodgers is a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. Her research interests include translating science for decision makers to address public health health inequities; investigating the impacts of pollutants and extreme heat on kidney health; and finding strategies to reduce exposures to consumer product chemicals.

🔹 Sofia Aira is a journalist at Hello Partner covering the biggest stories in influencer marketing and the creator economy.

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📸 1: Hong Kong Free Press / 7: Hong Kong Free Press