Tue, Jun 30, 2026
Tue, Jun 30, 2026
environment
Guyana spending $300 million to replant trees in mined out areas this yearGuyana will this year spend about $300 million for land reclamation and reforestation purposes, a venture that promises to help…
UPDATE: Presence of Sahara dust plume to persist until Feb 07 See below the statement issued by the EPA: The Environmental Protection Agency hereby issues an update on its advisory posted…
Local organisations secure funding for marine projectsIn a significant development for the local marine sector, the British High Commission has awarded grants to two environmental conservation…
COP28: Disappointment for Guyana as carbon market talks fail to advanceBy Vishani Ragobeer [email protected] Dubai was at the centre of global conversations and negotiations on the climate crisis with this…
COP28: The ‘beginning of the end’ for fossil fuels?By Vishani Ragobeer [email protected] This year’s global climate talks, COP28, came to an end on Wednesday with countries agreeing to…
Guyana’s Indigenous peoples reject Venezuela’s land grab plansBy Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai [email protected] Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro wants to expand mining in the forest-rich Essequibo area of…
Pradeepa Bholanath: Guyana’s lead climate negotiatorBy Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai [email protected] Guyana is making a lot of noise internationally, hoping to convince more people that…
COP28: Guyana argues that payments to save animals, plants in its forests are also neededBy Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai [email protected] When a group of researchers stumbled upon an “exuberantly- coloured snake” in Warapoka in…
Commonwealth: Guyana to champion action on forest, biodiversityGuyana will champion the Commonwealth Living Lands Action Group on sustainable green cover and biodiversity, committing itself to lead coordinated…
COP28: Suriname, like Guyana, says its vast forests will be protected as oil sector developsBy Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai [email protected] At the northern edge of the South American continent sit two countries, Guyana and…
Opinion: Carbon credits are benefitting GuyanaBy Melena Pollard, Toshao of Rivers' View If you boarded a boat in Bartica and crossed the Essequibo River, after…
COP28: Guyana champions its low carbon strategy as an int’l development modelBy Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai [email protected] Why should anyone pay attention to Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy, or the LCDS?…
At COP28, is the ‘climate’ right to talk about Guyana’s border controversy?By Vishani Ragobeer in Dubai [email protected] About 70,000 people have landed in Dubai for this year’s annual United Nations climate…
President, Vice President in Dubai for Climate Summit. Why?By Neil Marks in Dubai [email protected] President Irfaan Ali and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo are among leaders who have arrived…
What is COP28 and why is Guyana making a big deal of it?By Vishani Ragobeer [email protected] Guyana will be represented at the upcoming 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework…
U.S. investing millions to help Caribbean fight impacts of Climate ChangeGuyana is among Caribbean countries to benefit from a multi-million-dollar initiative by the United States Government to help its response…
Washed away: People who help protect the turtles losing their homeBy Vishani Ragobeer [email protected] Almond Beach is an Indigenous community and one of 10 beaches found along the 75-mile-long Shell…
Pink River Dolphins found in RupununiThe Manari Ranch, Field Museum Chicago, and local field biologists, supported by WWF, conducted the first environmental DNA (eDNA) survey…
