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Dr Marco Hatch at one of his study sites. Image courtesy of Dr Marco Hatch.

Indigenous oyster fisheries were ‘fundamentally different’: Q&A with researcher Marco Hatch

Spoorthy Raman 1 Jun 2022
Portrait of Sarayaku Warmikuna, member of Mujeres Amazónicas (Amazonian Women). The women of the community were the first to be part of the collective known as Amazonian Women. Image courtesy of Esteffany Bravo.

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Astrid Arellano, Yvette Sierra Praeli 31 May 2022
Tourists petting a tiger cub at Doc Antle's Myrtle Beach Tiger Safari in South Carolina, U.S. Antle faces federal charges for wildlife trafficking.

Year of the Tiger: Illegal trade thrives amid efforts to save wild tigers

Sharon Guynup 31 May 2022
The Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher (Terenotriccus erythrurus) is a common species that forages on insects in the forest understory (an understory insectivore). Image courtesy of Dr. John Whitelaw.

Drastic declines in Neotropical birds in a protected Panamanian forest

Neha Jain 31 May 2022
A gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone’s wolves defied extinction, but face new threats beyond park’s borders

Grace Hansen 31 May 2022
Pedro Uc is a poet, campesino and defender of his territory. Photo taken from his Facebook page.

‘What’s lacking is respect for Mayan culture’: Q&A with Pedro Uc Be on Mexico’s Tren Maya

Thelma Gómez Durán 30 May 2022

Meet the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 25 May 2022

Tale of two pandemics as mining thrived while communities faced restrictions

Sandra Cuffe 24 May 2022

Investors force Home Depot to review wood-sourcing policy over logging concerns

Maxwell Radwin 23 May 2022
Wood chips for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway. Image by Statkraft via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?

Annelise Giseburt 19 May 2022

Geoengineering Earth’s climate future: Straight talk with Wake Smith

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2022
Timber for biomass burning at Tofte, Norway

Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia

Justin Catanoso 11 May 2022

Human disturbance is pitting wolverines against an unlikely competitor: Coyotes

Grace Hansen 9 May 2022
At COP 1, there was a push for more countries to join the Agreement. Image courtesy of ECLAC.

Citizen participation: a key achievement at the first COP to the Escazú Agreement

Oscar Bermeo Ocaña 5 May 2022

Wonder on wings: The fierce nature and enduring beauty of birds

Mike Gaworecki 4 May 2022
Bears Ears is known for its stunning cliff dwellings that serve as a backdrop for thousands of sacred, cultural and archaeological sites. Tribes also still use the area to hunt and gather food.

With protections restored, tribal council charts new path for Bears Ears

Caitlin Looby 2 May 2022

In Mexico, a divine bird inspires a community’s sustainable forestry efforts

Juan Mayorga 2 May 2022

Why are Florida manatees showing up in Cuba and Mexico?

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2022
People protest against ExxonMobil in Melbourne, Australia.

California subpoenas ExxonMobil over plastic pollution

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Apr 2022
Hornbills — the so-called “farmers of the forest” in Africa and Asia — move more than 700 plant species up to 11 km (7 mi) in a day.

As animal seed dispersers go the way of the dodo, forest plants are at risk

Sharon Guynup 28 Apr 2022
Lithium evaporation ponds in Salar de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile. Source: NASA. Image processing by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Contorted energy politics of the Ukraine crisis (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 27 Apr 2022
A marine researcher launching a drone for ocean color surveys

Where satellites come up short, drones can fill in a picture of our oceans

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Apr 2022

In Mexico, a race to save the last wetlands of San Cristóbal de las Casas

Thelma Gómez Durán 26 Apr 2022

Troubled waters: A massive salmon farm off the coast of Maine is stalled

Caitlin Looby 25 Apr 2022
Old-growth redwood trees in Redwood National Park, California. Image courtesy of Erik Cooper via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

President Biden signs order aimed at protecting old-growth forests across U.S.

Liz Kimbrough 22 Apr 2022

Just outside Mexico City, community-run forests provide eco services, livelihoods

Andrea Vega 22 Apr 2022

Saving old-growth forests: Q&A with Amazon Watch’s Leila Salazar-López

Maxwell Radwin 22 Apr 2022
Two caribou climb a hill. Image courtesy of Kevin L Moore via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous knowledge and science team up to triple a caribou herd

Chris Arsenault 21 Apr 2022
Clownfish can reportedly lay clutches of over 1000 eggs.

Pilot program tries to get U.S. aquariums to raise their own fish, not catch them

Ashley Stumvoll 21 Apr 2022

Trees and soil at the forest’s edge store more carbon than we thought, studies reveal

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2022
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Oceans conference comes up with $16b in pledges to safeguard marine health

Carolyn Cowan 15 Apr 2022

Sharing a marine reserve with fishers: Q&A with Belize Fisheries’ Adriel Castañeda

Maxwell Radwin 14 Apr 2022

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