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Major meatpacker JBS misled the public about sustainability efforts, NY lawsuit claims

Maxwell Radwin 1 Mar 2024
Jonathan Mesulam

PNG communities resist seabed mining: Interview with activist Jonathan Mesulam

John Cannon 1 Mar 2024

Night light, habitat loss & pesticides threaten Brazil’s bioluminescent insects

Bernardo Araujo 1 Mar 2024

Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation

Iván Paredes Tamayo, Nelfi Fernández Reyes 1 Mar 2024
The Bolivian Amazon has been affected by illegal mining and oil incursion.

In the Amazon, what happens to undesignated public lands?

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Feb 2024

Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says

Maxwell Radwin 29 Feb 2024
Noman Masondo, a farmer in Chirundu District of Zambia, implements effective agroecological methods to cultivate his maize crop sustainably, Zambia.

Agroecological solutions better than pesticides in fighting fall armyworm, experts say

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Feb 2024
Quilombola leaders Edmilson Furquim (Dênis) and Elza Ursulino on the balcony of their home in the Bombas territory.

New precedent as Afro-Brazilian quilombo community wins historic land claim

Aimee Gabay 29 Feb 2024
Tiger rescue Nepal

Conservation success leaves Nepal at a loss for dealing with ‘problem tigers’

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Feb 2024

Should all marine reserves ban fishing? Not necessarily, new study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Feb 2024
Johan Rockström.

Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize

Glenn Scherer 29 Feb 2024
Children crossing the Nyamwamba.

Climate change brings a river’s wrath down on western Uganda

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Feb 2024
Nubian flapshell turtle (Cyclanorbis elegans) in its preferred riverbank habitat. Image courtesy of ONG OeBenin via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC).

Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle

David Njagi 28 Feb 2024
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,

Ecuador, Colombia and the Guiana Shield join the planning of sustainable land use

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Feb 2024

Giant anaconda species found on Waorani Indigenous land in Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 28 Feb 2024

Nepal’s human-wildlife conflict relief system hits roadblock with new guidelines

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Feb 2024

Seabird poop is recipe for coral recovery amid climate-driven bleaching

Anna Dulisse 28 Feb 2024

Gharial conservation plan leaves Nepal fishing communities searching for new jobs

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 28 Feb 2024

Rewilding Ireland: Healing from a history of deforestation, one tree at a time

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 27 Feb 2024
De Winton's Golden Mole, a blind mole that lives beneath the sand and has sensitive hearing that can detect vibrations from movement above the surface. (Photo by JP Le Roux)

We’re losing species faster than we can find them, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2024
A southern pig-tailed macaques infant.

‘Shocking’ mortality of infant macaques points to dangers of oil palm plantations

Spoorthy Raman 27 Feb 2024
A chattering lory (Lorius garrulus).

Maluku farmer turns guardian of eastern Indonesia’s threatened parrots

Mahmud Ichi 27 Feb 2024
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) hunting a spotted deer in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India.

Dholes latest wild canids likely making comeback in Nepal, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2024
A salmon farm in Bugoynes, Finnmark, Norway.

Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report

Francesco De Augustinis 27 Feb 2024

Smallest wildcat of the Atlantic Forest faces enormous threats

Aldo Benítez 27 Feb 2024
Some of the villagers with their land title certificates.

Not waiting for the government, Myanmar’s Karen people register their own lands

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Feb 2024

Skywalker gibbons confirmed in Myanmar for the first time

Carolyn Cowan 26 Feb 2024
A boat carrying potable water from Macapá city, Amapá’s capital, by the government is stranded because of the siltation of the Amazon River in front of Livramento community.

Locals at the mouth of the Amazon River get a salty taste of climate change

Rodrigo Pedroso, Rudja Santos 26 Feb 2024
Image of a honeybee by Andrea Fabiani Ph via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Bees bring honey and hope to a forest reserve in Nigeria

Orji Sunday 24 Feb 2024
Artistic rendering of a forest shaped like a brain. AI-generated.

To reverse deforestation and protect biodiversity, build a bioeconomy in the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah 23 Feb 2024
A whale shark with remoras.

Summit on migratory species sides with science, throws shade on deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Feb 2024
A Boodie (Bettongia lesueur) and a Bilby (Macrotis lagotis), two Australian marsupials.

New funding boosts AI-enabled wildlife identification project in Australia

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 Feb 2024

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