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Pine forest in California's Sierra Nevada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forests and the Fate of Civilizations: A Conversation with John Perlin

Rhett A. Butler 16 Oct 2024
Children are invited to guess the type of medicinal plant from its aroma.

Sumatra community school hands down ancient knowledge to modern generation

Teguh Suprayitno 7 Aug 2024

A short walk through Amazon time: Interview with archaeologist Anna Roosevelt

Peter Speetjens 10 Apr 2024

Ancient ocean water found in Himalayas could offer insights about evolution

Niladry Sarkar 22 Nov 2023
A group of Murujuga custodians formed the group Save Our Songlines to stop the future destruction of rock art using the law.

Australia crackdown on climate protesters grows amid fight against gas project

Tessa Fox 31 Oct 2023
Puzzle of a natural history museum diorama. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

What does the decline of natural history museums mean for biodiversity conservation? (commentary)

Rajith Dissanayake 28 Jun 2023

India cheetah births spark interest in fast felines in neighboring Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Apr 2023
Karama River

Sulawesi hydropower dam could flood important archaeological sites

Agus Mawan 14 Dec 2022
A handful of peanuts.

Book Review: ‘Slaves for Peanuts’ gets to the troubling roots of a beloved snack

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Jun 2022
A river running through an old-growth lowland rainforest in Brunei.

Fossil evidence confirms persistence of prehistoric forests in Brunei

John Cannon 31 May 2022

Study shows it took the Amazon as we know it over 6 million years to form

Claire Asher 7 Jun 2021
A black rhino in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Image by Sonse, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Saving our ‘Beloved Beasts’: Q&A with environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis

John Cannon 22 Apr 2021

Long entrenched Brazilian military mindset is key to Amazon policy: Expert

Peter Speetjens 26 Oct 2020

Amazonia’s people domesticated crops on ‘forest islands’ 10,000 years ago: Study

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2020

Indonesia’s Teater Potlot takes on the plight of the Sumatran tiger

Taufik Wijaya 19 Sep 2018
This Globo television screenshot shows the museum on fire from above.

Brazil mourns ‘incalculable loss’ in National Museum fire

Genevieve Belmaker 4 Sep 2018

Researchers are looking into the past to help ensure a future for tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jul 2018

Even cockroaches have personalities

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Mar 2015

New study argues the Anthropocene began in 1610

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2015

Brazilian indigenous populations grow quickly after first contact devastation

Caitlin E. Williamson 18 Feb 2015

Pollution from fossil fuels decreased rainfall in Central America

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2015

It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2014

Genetic sleuthing reveals grisly details of historic whale hunting

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Nov 2014

In the shadows of Machu Picchu, scientists find ‘extinct’ cat-sized mammal

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

Requiem or recovery?: the Sumatran rhino 200 years after its description

Bill Konstant With The International Rhino Foundation 8 Jan 2014

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Jeremy Hance 10 Oct 2013

Featured documentary: Damocracy, highlighting the battles over the Belo Monte and Ilisu dams

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Humans killed over 10 percent of the world’s bird species when they colonized the Pacific Islands

Jeremy Hance 25 Mar 2013

Scientists nearly double the number of biogeographic realms

Jeremy Hance 2 Jan 2013

Elephant ancestors and Africa’s Bigfoot: new initiative works to preserve a continent’s wildest tales

Jeremy Hance 20 Aug 2012

Experts dispute recent study that claims little impact by pre-Columbian tribes in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 5 Jul 2012

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