This special issue set out to capture the many and varied ways in which conservation relates to land in Namibia; accordingly, we opted for expanse over precision in our thematic framing. Not only did an expansive scope make sense thematically but it also closely aligned with the Namibian Journal of Environment’s (NJE) own mandate - making the NJE a logical home for this epistemological pursuit.

This study investigates how Brazilian journalists covering socio-environmental issues are affected by disinformation campaigns linked to far-right populism and lobbies opposing environmental protection. Based on in-depth interviews with 14 professionals specializing in environmental reporting, it analyzes how they perceive the digital hostility aimed at delegitimizing journalism and science. Although they do not feel silenced, participants report frustration and difficulties in responding to manipulative narratives. The accounts suggest that environmental coverage has become a field of symbolic dispute, particularly during the Bolsonaro administration, making disinformation a structural problem that affect daily journalistic routines. Strategies such as investigative reporting that expose economic interests, empathetic storytelling and the use of accessible language without falling into partisan disputes are seen as ways to confront this scenario of information disorder.

New Submission Guidelines and A New Research Section for <i>Journal of Ecology and Environment</i>

The article draws attention to some aspects of using artificial intelligence technologies for writing research papers and for editing and preparing such papers for publication, urging potential authors of the Journal of Soils and Environment to abstain temporarily from using AI technologies for preparing their manuscripts.

Bangladesh is a disaster-prone country. Also, it is one of the most vulnerable countries to global climate change. As such coverage of environmental issues is utterly important for Bangladeshi media, especially newspapers as they can create awareness and shape public opinions. However, despite its importance, coverage of environmental issues has not been very significant in Bangladeshi newspapers, especially in regional newspapers. Also, there is a lack in comprehensive research on the issue, especially focusing on regional newspapers. To understand the current trend in coverage of environmental issues in regional newspapers, this study examines the coverage of environmental issues in six regional newspapers of Bangladesh, published from six divisional headquarters – Chottogram, Khulna, Sylhet, Rangpur, Rajshahi, and Barishal – during a disaster-free period (1–15 March 2025). Using a mixed-method approach combining quantitative content analysis and qualitative thematic analysis, the research assessed attention, emphasis, prominence, sources, photographs, and thematic focus of 97 environmental news stories among 4,575 published items in the above-mentioned newspapers. The findings reveal that the coverage of regional newspapers was not much focused on the local communities, rather they prioritized national and international issues over-pressing local challenges such as waterlogging, drought, saline intrusion, irrigation crises, and air pollution. Of the total stories, 44.62% addressed environmental problems, 9.7% focused on public protests, 15.52% on government drives and actions, and 25.22% on awareness programs. Despite their potential role in raising community awareness, regional newspapers provided largely event-based, elite-centered reporting with little investigative or research-based depth. Editorials and stories were often influenced by political and administrative interests, while contributions from experts and research institutions were almost absent. Visual presentation was weak, with no use of infographics or data visualization, and only a limited number of byline reports. The study concludes that environmental journalism in local newspapers in Bangladesh remains under-resourced and surface-level, with inadequate attention to grassroots realities. Strengthening professional standards, ensuring appropriate recognition and remuneration of local journalists, and encouraging research-driven, visually engaging reporting are essential for enhancing the role of regional newspapers in addressing Bangladesh’s acute environmental challenges.

The electronic media constitutes a source of awareness creation and transmission about climate change in Pakistan, which is discussed in this literature review based on the results of 25 research papers that are available in the national, regional, and international levels. The results reveal that the coverage of climate in Pakistan is generally shallow and often of disaster nature in character, which attracts the attention of the media during such events and is even more infrequently heard; the experts speaking on this issue. Another point in the literature was also the fact that framing of climate stories can be influenced by political interests, restrictions in the newsrooms and pressures in the background by commercial circles. Besides that, there is no local and relevant reporting in mainstreams by the community that fosters lack of interest in audiences and lack of understanding of climate science in all people. The authoritative reports on audience-oriented studies state that the mere exposure to media does not lead to change in behavior or information when the coverage is shallow and hard to act upon. All in all, the survey ends with the statement that although Pakistani electronic media can potentially play an important part in the context of increasing awareness of climate change, the opportunity is limited by structural and professional constraints. To enhance climatic communication and aid awareness in Pakistan, it is necessary to strengthen environmental journalism, introduce the element of scientific capability, and encourage solution-based reporting.

The paper aims to present a comprehensive study of the ecocritical dimensions of Bahar Dutt's Green Wars: Dispatches from a Vanishing World (2014). Dutt's account of her journey, presented in the form of a chronicle of piquant stories and anecdotes in the course of environmental journalism, comes out as a splendid narrative highlighting her environmental advocacy. Undertaking the ecocritical stance, this research analyses how, in the name of development, Nature is rampantly abused, degraded, and destroyed. The text under study addresses the emerging issues of biodiversity conservation by critiquing the unsustainable rubrics sanctioned by the Indian State Government, contributing to drastic and irreparable deterioration of ecology. Dutt's investigative journalism forecasts the environmental apocalypse, and mirrors her eco-anxiety. The study applies a qualitative research design, emphasizing and interpreting the quotations and anecdotes from the text replete with ecological concerns. The textual analysis is done through the lens of ecocriticism, thereby foregrounding the universal environmental problems ranging from the extinction of certain flora and fauna, melting of glaciers, to the mindless infrastructural development causing pollution and ecological imbalance.

The corresponding author (N. Latipov) on 20.09.2025 has requested retraction of the article “Econometric modeling and forecasting of environmental conditions of cities and population health problems: Case study of Navoi and Zarafshan cities”, published in the Macedonian Journal of Ecology and Environment, Volume 26, Number 2 (2024), stating that “…the aforementioned article was unfortunately published in two separate journals concurrently. This constitutes a breach of ethical publishing standards, which we deeply regret. We understand and acknowledge the importance of maintaining the integrity of the scientific record, and we recognize that simultaneous publication undermines this integrity”. Following our examination, we confirmed the double publication of the article (Latipov et al. 2024). Given the stated sequence of submission and acceptance in the “Visnyk of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series Geology. Geography. Ecology” (Received: 13.09.2024; Accepted: 21.10.2024) and in the MJEE (Submitted: 19.09.2024; Accepted: 29.10.2024), and in accordance with the Ethical Statement of the MJEE, we retract the article. The article was marked as retracted on the online version on 15.10.2025.

Personal hygiene is one of the most important measures in maintaining health, especially in preventing skin diseases. One aspect of personal hygiene that is often overlooked is towel hygiene. Towels that are used repeatedly without being washed properly can become a breeding ground for bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms that can cause various skin problems such as itching, irritation, fungal infections, and dermatitis. This article aims to examine the role of towel hygiene as a measure to prevent skin diseases based on a review of various health and environmental journals in Indonesia. The results of the study show that sharing towels, rarely washing towels, and not drying towels properly can increase the risk of skin disease transmission. Therefore, habits of maintaining towel hygiene, such as washing towels regularly, drying them thoroughly, and not sharing towels, are simple yet effective steps in supporting personal sanitation and preventing skin diseases. These efforts are expected to raise public awareness of the importance of clean and healthy living behaviors in daily life.

Corrigendum to “Literature review on waste management of online food delivery industry in China” [Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment 21 (2023) 197‒202

The accelerating pace of urbanization across Africa presents both unprecedented opportunities and formidable challenges for building inclusive, sustainable, and resilient cities. As urban populations expand rapidly, the urgency to create built environments that serve diverse populations while addressing climate vulnerabilities has never been greater. The issue 9 Volume 5 of the Journal of Inclusive Cities and Built Environment assembles critical research exploring the nexus between technology integration, environmental management, stakeholder engagement, and sustainable infrastructure development across diverse African contexts. The papers collectively demonstrate how innovative approaches to urban planning and governance can advance equitable, climate-resilient, and inclusive transformations.

This article maps the use of the term “Environmental Communication” in academic articles and postgraduate research within the context of Brazilian scholarship. While the circulation of environmental discourses has grown in professional settings, academic development in the field has not kept pace. There has been progress in epistemological debates surrounding environmental journalism, but this remains limited and needs to be expanded to other subfields. Concurrently, forms of communication employed by activists, social movements, traditional communities, and Indigenous peoples - who advocate for alternative relationships with nature - can be observed. Although these groups may not explicitly adopt the term 'environmental,' their communicative practices align with the principles of Latin American environmentalism.

This study examines how environmental journalists in Eastern Indonesia develop innovative digital strategies to counter corporate disinformation while maintaining credible climate reporting amid systematic censorship and algorithmic suppression. Through ethnographic fieldwork with 34 environmental journalists in Makassar and surrounding maritime communities (2023–2024), combined with digital platform analysis and content verification tracking, this investigation reveals how local journalists create “networked verification archipelagos” that mirror traditional maritime communication systems to combat extractive industry misinformation. Our analysis revealed three primary counter-disinformation mechanisms: (1) community-based verification networks that successfully identified 87% of corporate misinformation within 48 h through traditional knowledge integration; (2) algorithmic resistance strategies that increased environmental content visibility by 156% through cultural framing techniques; and (3) cross-platform coordination that maintained journalist communication networks despite 34 documented censorship campaigns. These networks enable accurate environmental reporting despite corporate-sponsored disinformation campaigns, government restrictions on mining coverage, and social media algorithms that amplify climate denial content. The research demonstrates how journalists in the Global South develop decolonial approaches to counter-disinformation that challenge Western platform-centric fact-checking models while maintaining journalistic credibility and community accountability. These findings contribute to understanding power dynamics and coloniality in disinformation studies while offering insights for media literacy and democratic integrity in climate-vulnerable regions.

The present study investigates the media framing of environmental and climate change issues, with a specific focus on the coverage of the 2025 California wildfires.Employing a content analysis methodology,it examines news articles from the digital editions of The New York Times(typically characterized as left-leaning)and Fox News(generally considered right-leaning).The analysis identifies recurring patterns related to tone, emotional language, attribution of causality, proposed solutions, allocation of blame, and representations of governmental response.The findings indicate that The New York Times predominantly frames the wildfires within the broader context of climate accountability and systemic governance failures.In contrast,Fox News frequently employs more sensationalist rhetoric,attributes the fires primarily to natural causes, and demonstrates a comparatively limited focus on long-term mitigation strategies.These results underscore the influential role of media framing in shaping public discourse on climate change and emphasize the importance of balanced, objective, and evidence-based environmental journalism.

The ecological crisis of India, manifesting in the forms of rampant deforestation, pollution, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, and several other issues, is rarely acknowledged by the mainstream Indian media. We explain some of the possible reasons behind what we perceive to be this neglect, as well as its implications for the way environmental issues are perceived and for future political action on crucial environmental issues. Stakeholder reporting does not adequately highlight ecological issues; their absence is evident in analytics of trends in news coverage. They are compounded by media ownership structures, corporate interests, and political pressures that inhibit longer-term investigative environmental coverage. It also explores how the limited coverage of environmental issues affects public perception and policymaking and ends with a reflection on social media or independent platforms being able to rescue this situation. These findings drive home the importance of responsible journalism practices and the necessity for policy measures that not only promote a stronger emphasis on ecological issues but also counterbalance media content with respect to ecological interests. Enhancing media independence and building stronger environmental journalism will be crucial first steps towards greater public engagement with India’s environmental challenges.

Environmental decline has become one of Pakistan's most serious concerns, demanding regular media attention and public interest. Even with the increasing importance of environmental communication, the function of local television channels in shaping public knowledge of ecological concerns remains unexposed. This study analyzes how local TV channels in Lahore present environmental issues, the dominant frames, the news selection patterns, and the institutional constraints that direct content production. Based on Agenda-Setting Theory and Framing Theory, the study applies qualitative thematic content analysis to assess news bulletins and feature segments of three Lahore-based news channels. The analysis determines that reporting on the environment is primarily event-oriented, episodic, and reactive with little depth or follow-through. Reporting is mostly confined to visible crises like smog or flooding, with long-term environmental regulation and preventive measures rarely in focus. Challenges in institutions like a shortage of environmental beats, restricted training for journalists and editorial reliance on official sources also limit the scope of substantial coverage. Findings reveal a clear disconnect between environmental conditions and media representation at the grassroots level. The research concludes that building environmental journalism in Lahore implies capacity development, committed newsroom resources, and partnership among the media organizations, academia, and environmental institutions to provide informed and sustainable environmental discussion in Pakistan's local television landscape.

The way in which the media addresses environmental issues in the Ecuadorian Amazon responds to various factors that influence the selection of information and the narrative approach. This research analyzes journalistic coverage from an experiential perspective, considering journalists' production routines, the predominant interpretive frameworks (framing) in discourse, and the impact of political and economic factors on the generation of environmental coverage. The methodology was qualitative with a phenomenological approach, and journalists were selected using non-probabilistic sampling based on judgment, combined with criteria related to experience in covering and addressing environmental issues in the Amazon. The criteria collected through semi-structured interviews were processed using a qualitative content analysis matrix that allowed, through the logic of concordances, the identification of journalistic routines, their interpretive frameworks, and the factors that condition the environmental agenda. The findings indicate that journalists do not follow a homogeneous pattern, but rather adjust to contextual conditions, such as the availability of resources, time pressure, and the editorial line of the media outlet. The immediacy and influence of political and economic actors condition the depth and continuity of environmental coverage, in many cases prioritizing episodic treatment over a structural approach to environmental issues. The importance of greater editorial independence, specialized training in environmental journalism, and diversification of sources is highlighted.

Current conditions of the information society development and social demand for new quality and content of communication in the “nature – society” system enhance the role of environmental journalism and requirements for setting the information agenda on ecology. The paper aims to develop and comprehensively present the conceptual model of setting and impact of the information agenda of the media, social media on ecology based on social demand. The interdisciplinary study involves the use of systemic, structural, functional, and cognitive approaches. The main method of study is scientifi c modeling. The development of the model for setting the information agenda of the media, social media and media eff ects and its impact on the youth audience is based on the theoretical provisions of G. Maletzke, S. Ball-Rokeach and M. L. DeFleur, P. M. Valkenburg and J. Peter. The proposed conceptual model is integrative and systemic and involves interaction at three levels: 1) social and media space; 2) a communicator and a recipient; 3) the process of creating a message in the context of the information agenda. Studying the process of setting the information agenda includes its thematic and attributive levels, framing and priming technologies. The authors consider the infl uence of environmental materials in the mass media and social media, described in the model, through cognitive, emotional, and behavioral media eff ects. The study reveals that interaction between the mass media, social media and social demand is complex: 1) the media feature the social demand, forming editorial policy based on the interests of various media communicators; 2) the media form the social demand by refl ecting a public opinion, ideas and values in the information agenda; 3) the media intermediate between government bodies and social groups as a platform for public discussion and exchange of opinions. The presented conceptual model can be used as a basis for studying the eff ectiveness of the formation and impact of the environmental information agenda.

This study discovers the role of citizen journalism in shaping deforestation narratives and promoting environmental activism in Sindh, Pakistan. While environmental journalism has obtained extensive scholarly attention, limited research reports how citizen journalists precisely frame deforestation and influence public engagement. Using Framing Theory as the analytical lens, this research uses qualitative content analysis of blogs, social media posts, and videos produced by citizen journalists. The findings specify that deforestation is framed as a complicated issue linked to governance failure, corruption, and ecological degradation. These narratives emphasize the urgency of policy reform and advocate for balanced forest management. Though the study depends on digital content, it demonstrates the potential of citizen journalism to raise awareness and mobilize collective action. The research contributes to academic discourse on the media–environment connection and highlights the grassroots power of digital environmental advocacy.

The escalating environmental crisis demands urgent involvement from young generations who will inherit the consequences of climate change. Schools play a strategic role in building ecological awareness, yet environmental education often remains theoretical and detached from students’ daily lives. In response, this community engagement programme was designed to empower high school students with basic skills in environmental journalism, or green journalism, as a medium to communicate ecological issues in an engaging and responsible way. The programme was implemented on 24 February 2025 at SMA Negeri 2 Tangerang Selatan with 80 participants consisting of students and teacher mentors. Using a humanist and participatory approach, the training combined theory and practice: after learning the 5W1H news structure, students directly produced news leads based on environmental photos; small-group mentoring supported confidence building; and social media was utilised to create educational campaigns. Participants were divided into three parallel classes, each with approximately 27 members, guided by lecturers of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, Universitas Mercu Buana. The results indicate significant improvements in students’ journalistic competence and ecological literacy. Post-test results revealed that 85% of participants demonstrated progress in news writing and fact-checking. Beyond technical enhancement, students began to see themselves as ecological storytellers and agents of change. The school also committed to establishing a Green Journalism Club as a sustainable platform for student initiatives. In conclusion, this training underscores that green journalism can serve as both an educational strategy and a participatory avenue for environmental action, enabling students and schools to collectively confront ecological challenges through creative and responsible communication.