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A little owl (Athene noctua).

Air pollution sensors found to store crucial biodiversity data

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 Jun 2023
Magnolia griffithii

Bangladesh’s new red list of plants shows country has already lost seven species

Farhana Parvin 23 Jun 2023

Projects in Brazil’s Caatinga biome combine conservation and climate adaptation

Kevin Damasio 23 Jun 2023
Mika Ganobal in his civil servant uniform.

In Indonesia’s Aru Islands, a popular eco-defender climbs the political ladder

Christ Belseran 22 Jun 2023
Seized teak logs in Myanmar, 2020. Image courtesy of Environmental Investigation Agency.

Is Jeff Bezos’s $500 million yacht made with ‘blood timber’ from Myanmar? (commentary)

Paul Woolwich 22 Jun 2023
A river flows through the Amazon Rainforest.

Climate change and moisture recycling in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Jun 2023

Indonesia to expand ‘smart fisheries’ program aimed at empowering communities

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2023
Mynas on an overhead wire.

Bangladesh’s ‘bird restaurant’ serves up snacks with a side of conservation

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 22 Jun 2023

Dam-building spree pushes Amazon Basin’s aquatic life closer to extinction

Sibélia Zanon 22 Jun 2023
A Miyawaki forest in Hyderabad.

Miyawaki forests are a global sensation, but not everyone’s sold on them

Annelise Giseburt 21 Jun 2023

For Central America, climate bill could top hundreds of billions annually

Dimitri Selibas 21 Jun 2023

Sugarcane: The monoculture that transformed southern Quintana Roo

Adriana Varillas, Alejandro Castro 21 Jun 2023
Amanita muscaria is a mushroom that is both hallucinogenic and poisonous. Image posted by creator 942784 to the Creative Commons via Pixabay.

‘A psychedelic renaissance’: How hallucinogens can aid conservation

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Jun 2023

Forest ecology and carbon dynamics in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Jun 2023

Palm oil: The crop that cuts into southeastern Mexico’s jungles and mangroves

Aminetth Sánchez 20 Jun 2023

Palm oil company in Ecuador operates illegally on ancestral land, community says

Maxwell Radwin 19 Jun 2023
Women from the Maju Bersama KPPL plant ginger flowers

Indigenous and local communities see big gains in land rights, study shows

Dimitri Selibas 19 Jun 2023
A park blooming with more blue camas.

Volunteers, First Nations work to bring back a disappearing oak prairie

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2023
A fisherman carries a basketful of hilsa.

Climate change, human pressures push Bangladesh’s ‘national fish’ into decline

Abu Siddique 19 Jun 2023
A green crested lizard in Borneo.

‘Tree islands’ boost diversity in oil palm plantations, study finds

Sean Mowbray 19 Jun 2023
Pablo Borboroglu with a Magellanic penguin

Penguins ‘enrich our lives’: Q&A with Pablo Borboroglu, protector of penguins

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jun 2023

Avocados: The green gold that wipes western Mexico’s forests from the map

Agustín del Castillo 16 Jun 2023
Convoy of four logging trucks in Gabon, following each other from right to left along a paved road out of the frame, green foliage on the hillside above the dry gray and brown of the road . Image by jbdodane via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Forests & finance: communities turn to tree-planting, zero-logging, and mushrooms to protect forests

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2023
Mopane worms on mopane leaves.

Southern African caterpillar that feeds millions may be next climate casualty

Ryan Truscott 15 Jun 2023

Soy: The agro-industry that devastates the Maya jungle

Mayela Sánchez 15 Jun 2023
Spot, the robotic dog, is equipped with cameras and audio recorders.

Meet the tech projects competing for a $10m prize to save rainforests

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Jun 2023

A powerful U.S. political family is behind a copper mine in the Colombian rainforest

Andrés Bermúdez Liévano 14 Jun 2023

Seas of grass may be dark horse candidate to fuel the planet — or not

Carly Nairn 14 Jun 2023
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Rare Amazon dark soils could help forest restoration, study shows

Juliana Ennes 14 Jun 2023

Planting deforestation: The forests that Mexico loses to agribusiness

Thelma Gómez Durán 14 Jun 2023

The natural history of the Amazon Rainforest

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Jun 2023

Venezuela’s environmental crisis is getting worse. Here are seven things to know.

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2023

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