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Spying on wildlife with biorobots: Interview with engineer Kamilo Melo

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Mar 2024
Planet satellite image of the Macucuaú River, Roraima in February 2023 (left) and February 2024 (right). Courtesy of Planet.

Fires surge in the Amazon, but deforestation continues to fall

Mongabay.com 17 Mar 2024

Projected Pantanal waterway threatens protected areas, may render navigation impossible

Fernanda Wenzel 15 Mar 2024
Active clearance and drainage of peatland rainforest in a concession run by PT Asia Tani Persada, which is also an orangutan habitat.

Toilet paper: Environmentally impactful, but alternatives are rolling out

Petro Kotzé 15 Mar 2024

Brazilian youngsters discuss how they are tackling the climate emergency

Beatriz Jucá, Leandro Barbosa 15 Mar 2024
Illegal road leading to an oil palm plantation in Indonesia.

To detect illegal roads in remote areas, AI comes into play

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Mar 2024
Humpback whales.

Huge new no-fishing zones give Antarctic marine predators and their prey a break

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Mar 2024
Inauguration of minister Flávio Dino as minister of the STF.

Brazil’s Amazonian states push for court reforms in bid for justice

Luiz Antônio Araujo 14 Mar 2024
A manta ray.

E-Sak Ka Ou Declaration underscores Indigenous rights as a conservation solution (commentary)

Minh Tran 14 Mar 2024
A yellow-legged hornet "hawking," hovering in front of a honeybee hive to pick slower-moving bees out of midair.

Mini radio tags help track ‘murder hornets’ and other invasive insects

Claudia Geib 14 Mar 2024
Tea pickers in Kenya.

Climate change brews trouble for tea industry, but circular solutions await

Sean Mowbray 14 Mar 2024

Not just polar bears — climate change could push African rhinos to extinction

Anna Dulisse 14 Mar 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024

How a wind farm on Brazil’s coast erased a fishing village from the map

Lobato Felizola 14 Mar 2024
The number of oribis (Ourebia ourebi), small, floodplain-bound antelopes, declined by 47%.

Big problems for little animals when floodwaters rise, study finds

Charles Mpaka 14 Mar 2024

Peru’s illegal pet monkey trade is also an infection superhighway

Carla Ruas 14 Mar 2024

Reforestation and restoration: Two ways to make the Pan Amazon greener

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Mar 2024

Reconciling conservation agriculture and agroforestry for sustainability

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Mar 2024
Flowers of Scaevola parvifolia

Traditional Aboriginal fire practices can help promote plant diversity: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Mar 2024
A small, bright green chameleon with pale orange patches on its head, clinging to a matching stalk with its tail curled tightly. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’

Ryan Truscott 13 Mar 2024
The access road to the Stung Tatai Leu hydropower dam cuts through forest in the Central Cardamoms National Park, Koh Kong province, Cambodia in April 2022

New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 13 Mar 2024
Oryx dammah

Gundi tool gets conservation hardware and software talking the same language

Abhishyant Kidangoor 12 Mar 2024

Conflict in the canopy as human and climate factors drive liana dominance over trees

Logan Rance 12 Mar 2024

Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state

Sam Cowie, Rodrigo Pedroso, Avener Prado 12 Mar 2024

Brazil risks losing the Pampa grassland to soy farms and sand patches

Evanildo da Silveira 12 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024
Saltwater crocodile

Tien Hai reserve saved from development in win for nature in Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 11 Mar 2024

Proposed copper mine modifications spark community outcry in Peru

Sarah Sax 11 Mar 2024

Riverine communities join forces to preserve threatened Amazon turtles

Sibélia Zanon (text) and Julia Lima (video and photos) 11 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024
Agroforestry practices in action in Zambia.

Global conference to accelerate nature-based solutions: Q&A with Self Help Africa’s Patricia Wall

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Mar 2024

Java rice farmers suffer crop failure as copper mine pollutes local irrigation

Asad Asnawi 11 Mar 2024

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