Laurie Marker's passion for cheetahs was kindled far from the grasslands of Africa. In 1974, she got a job working for a new wildlife park in Oregon, and as she…

A fishy ghost story in time for Halloween [Nature] Ghost fishing, as it’s known, is when marine life is drawn into nets and traps by the dead and decomposing bodies…

urilo Reis was guiding a group of tourists on his private nature reserve in a remote part of northeastern Peru two months ago when he came across more than a…

Climate change publications are geographically imbalanced, according to a recent study published in Global Environmental Change. Researchers from Denmark and Brazil analyzed over 15,000 scientific publications on climate change published…

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo reiterated on Thursday his intention to move toward a stronger moratorium on peatland development, saying the government will look to restore some of the desiccated swamps and…

A new report finds gold mining in Suriname increased by 893 percent between 2000 and 2014.

Money brings many things. It can bring great happiness and it can cause great suffering. It depends on how it is used. Ethics are important. New prosperity following Vietnam’s accession…

Work together. Be creative. Prioritize. Keep an open mind. The key recommendations from two reviews on strategies for deploying “information age” technologies for nature conservation.

cuador’s troubled relationship with oil began in 1964, when Texaco first discovered ‘black gold’ in the Eastern Amazon. That discovery led to some times violent cultural clashes between modern society…

Clouded leopards are being increasingly traded for commercial purposes, and their skins and other body parts are flooding illegal wildlife markets, according to a recent study published in Biodiversity and…

Air quality in Indonesia was slightly improved in most areas on Thursday following rain on Tuesday night as President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo landed in South Sumatra to monitor the archipelago's…

Deep in the mountains of eastern Bali sits a traditional Aga village, whose inhabtants – legendarily the island’s first – still reside and abide by ancient ways. Long before Indonesian…

New research indicates that a dip in deforestation rates may have prevented the deaths of 1,700 people per year.

uliana Machado Ferreira moves quickly through the chaotic sprawl of tables and stalls at Vila Mara, one of São Paulo’s busiest street markets. The vendors hawk shoes, clothing, piles of…

Heavy rain on Tuesday night offered some respite in the city worst affected by smoke from Indonesia’s devastating wildfires as President Joko Widodo returned home early from an official visit…

On this rare occasion, the longhouse in Sungai Utik, a Dayak Iban settlement in Indonesian Borneo, was extremely busy. Every one of the 28-door dwelling’s inhabitants was home, gathered for…

Heat waves could get deadlier in the near future, warns a new study published Monday in Nature Climate Change. If greenhouse gas emissions are left unchecked, waves of extreme heat…

Forests around the world are whittled away as trees are felled for lumber, land is cleared for agriculture, and fires ravage landscapes. Protected areas are established as a way to prevent…

igh-ranking Catholic leaders representing every continent on earth made an urgent appeal Monday to the global negotiators and political officials who will gather in Paris in December for the United…

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo cut short his official visit to the U.S. on Tuesday and returned to Indonesia to oversee government efforts to manage a humanitarian disaster caused by wildfires…

Green groups are pressuring PepsiCo to stop letting joint venture partners such as Indonesia’s biggest food company use its brand for products made with so-called conflict palm oil. The Rainforest…

At a time when U.S. and China have pledged to take steps to end ivory trade in their countries, Hong Kong — one of the largest hubs for illegal ivory —…

The king of African savanna is in trouble. Across most of the African landscape, thousands of lions are disappearing at an alarming rate, according to a new study published Monday…

uba, home to about one-fifth of the world's roughly 500 shark species, moved to protect the fishes last week. The Cuban government released a "National Plan of Action" to conserve…

New research finds local harvesting and consumption of tadpoles may be putting the already-endangered Indian purple frog at further risk of extinction.

Using sophisticated software to analyze images from drone-mounted cameras could provide cheap, timely and detailed information on tree growth, seasonal forest dynamics and other key metrics.

Banner Photo Credit: Bjorn Vaughn President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is preparing significant steps toward addressing the underlying causes of Indonesia’s devastating wildfires, including an enhanced moratorium on licenses to exploit peatlands, but…

housands of sometimes argumentative pages have been written about conservation priorities, advocating that the more threatened or ecologically important a species is, the more it deserves immediate protection and a…

Could this giant 3D printer stop climate change? [National Geographic] You may be familiar with this amazing technology. It is a 400-million-year-old solar-powered device that extracts CO2 from the atmosphere…

Residents of Palawan Island in the Philippines have united to take on the companies that they say have grabbed their land.