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Scientists have produced possibly the largest database of GPS-collared elephants containing 4 million data points.

Jumbo collaring effort reveals key elephant movement corridors

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Sep 2024

CHAPTER 6. Culture and demographics defines the Pan Amazon’s present

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Sep 2024
Green rice paddies in Udomxai province, Laos. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Alan Dangour on reframing climate change as a health crisis

Matthew Boyer, Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2024
A vegetable grower using agroecological methods in Boung Phao Village, Lao PDR. Photo: Asian Development Bank, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Global ‘Slow Food’ movement embraces agroecology (commentary)

Edward Mukiibi 24 Sep 2024
A group of chinstrap penguins on pack ice on Seal Island in Antarctica.

Arctic sea ice hits summer minimum; Antarctic hovers at new winter lows

Elizabeth Devitt 24 Sep 2024
Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). Image by Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

NGOs raise concerns over oil exploration in Republic of Congo national park

Didier Makal 24 Sep 2024
Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests

US consumers may be exposed to deforestation-linked palm oil via dairy: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Sep 2024
Flooding in Thailand

Record-breaking floods in northern Thailand intensify scrutiny of Mekong dam project

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2024
A young girl in a pale pink dress, a bobble hat and smile, pushing a wheelbarrow with two large yellow water containers across a field at Kapsambu village, Mt Elgon, Kenya. Image courtesy Infonile.

New approach to land management in Africa aims to climate-proof ecosystems

Mactilda Mbenywe 23 Sep 2024

Mexico loses phosphate mining lawsuit in controversial arbitration process

Maxwell Radwin 23 Sep 2024
A jellyfish swims in the sun in the mangroves.

Inaugural Planetary Health Check finds ocean acidification on the brink

Sean Mowbray 23 Sep 2024
An old growth clear-cut in Kwakwaka'wakw territory, northern Vancouver Island. Image copyright: Mya Van Woudenberg, Sierra Club BC.

As logging intensifies forest fires, Wet’suwet’en fight to protect old growth

Erica Gies 23 Sep 2024
Stunning photo is the first ever of a yellow-crested helmetshrike. Image by Matt Brady.

‘Dream birds’ in the mist: First photo of ‘lost’ bird in DRC mountains

Ryan Truscott 23 Sep 2024
A leopard in India.

Experts call for urgent leopard conservation efforts in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 23 Sep 2024
River Bagmati flowing through a religious site.

Supreme Court decision on saving Kathmandu rivers stirs up heated reactions

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Sep 2024
NASA satellite image of BR-230 highway.

Brazil’s BR-319 highway disaster: Yet another maneuver (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Sep 2024

Permits granted for Colombia’s Alacrán mine amid pollution, deforestation concerns

Maxwell Radwin 20 Sep 2024
Endorois and Ogiek Peoples of Kenya in a peaceful procession to demand for their land rights in Feb., 2024.

Indigenous peoples won in court — but in practice, they face a different reality

Aimee Gabay 20 Sep 2024

In Sri Lanka, election day is time for firecrackers — to ward off elephants

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 20 Sep 2024
Fish at a coral reef in Mexico.

Lab-grown corals resisted bleaching during Caribbean’s worst marine heat wave

Caitlin Cooper 19 Sep 2024

World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway in Papua for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2024

What will the Brazilian food industry do about plastic packaging?

Ellen Nemitz 19 Sep 2024

Why the EU must stand firm on its plan to help protect the world’s forests (commentary)

Sam Lawson 19 Sep 2024

We know how many okapi live in zoos. In the wild? It’s complicated

Marlowe Starling 18 Sep 2024

From prison psychologist to wildlife whisperer: Interview with Susan Eirich

Liz Kimbrough 18 Sep 2024
A steel production site in China.

Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions

Sean Mowbray 18 Sep 2024
A Maasai cattle herder in Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Ahead of COP16, groups warn of rights abuses linked to ‘30×30’ goal

Aimee Gabay 18 Sep 2024
A group of young people in the forest in Kenema district, Sierra Leone. Image courtesy Sierra Leone Environment Matters.

Sierra Leone group helps farmers adapt to changing climate, protect forest

Emma Black 18 Sep 2024

Philippines hydro boom rips Indigenous communities

Michael Beltran 18 Sep 2024

Climate change could threaten newly described ‘shiny’ North American bees

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Sep 2024

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024
Blast furnace in Duisburg, Germany.

Aluminum and steel take environment and health toll, even as demand grows

Sean Mowbray 17 Sep 2024

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