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Javan rhino poaching saga reveals serious security lapse

Mongabay Indonesia 2 Aug 2024
Batwa women in Uganda.

Indigenous Batwa win human rights victory over eviction from DRC park

Bobby Bascomb 2 Aug 2024
An Mbororo herder in a green caftan and his cattle in Cameroon, Image courtesy of Village Aid.

Herders caught between conflict and climate change in the northern Congo Basin

Didier Makal 2 Aug 2024

Six new natural sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Aug 2024
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is one of the best researched geoengineering strategies under consideration as a climate change “painkiller.”

Geoengineering gains momentum, but governance is lacking, critics say

Sean Mowbray 1 Aug 2024

EPA releases a strategy to protect endangered species from insecticides

Bobby Bascomb 1 Aug 2024
A man walks past solar panels.

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2024

Expanding the colonization of the Brazilian Amazon through gold mining

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Aug 2024
A basking shark (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens). Image courtesy of Greg Skomal/NOAA Fisheries Service.

Shark ‘Fitbit’ captures rare footage of collision with boat

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Aug 2024
People protest forest damage due to nickel mining, September 2022.

Muhammadiyah latest faith group to join Indonesia religious coal rush

Falahi Mubarok, Irfan Maulana 1 Aug 2024
A fisherman casts his net at a beach in Chennai, India.

WTO negotiations flounder — again — over banning unsustainable fishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 31 Jul 2024

Hydropower dams threaten fishing communities on the Amazon

Bruno Kelly, Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024

Tía María copper mine set to open in Peru despite community backlash

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jul 2024

Critically endangered North Atlantic right whale spotted near Ireland

Bobby Bascomb 31 Jul 2024
The Cerrado biome landscape.

Cerrado’s current drought impossible without human-caused climate change: Study

Molly Herring 31 Jul 2024
A protest in Phungling, a town of 29,000 people, where roads, restaurants and businesses were closed entirely.

In Nepal, a cable car in a sacred forest sparks swift, and controversial, direct action

Alice Millington 31 Jul 2024
Agroforestry products Thailand

Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jul 2024
Bioplastics drying during a testing setting.

Most ‘compostable’ bioplastics are anything but, says new report

Alden Wicker 31 Jul 2024

‘Lost’ snow leopard to remain at Kathmandu zoo, officials say

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jul 2024

Sharks have cocaine in their bodies

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2024
Youth activists rejecting cattle farming on Trangan Island.

Magnate’s visit to Indonesia’s untouched Aru Islands revives Indigenous concerns

Christ Belseran 31 Jul 2024

New Indigenous reserve in the Amazon among first steps to protect peoples in isolation

Astrid Arellano 31 Jul 2024

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024

Saving Lake Victoria from plastic: Interview with Kenya’s teenage Muchilwa siblings

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 31 Jul 2024
A common Jezebel (Delias eucharis).

Scientists are racing to save South Asia’s butterflies from the threat of extinction

Hailey Smalley 31 Jul 2024

How an international effort is keeping North America free of a deadly amphibian disease

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Jul 2024

Cambodia’s largest mangrove forest is ‘teeming with life,’ biodiversity survey finds

Anton L. Delgado 30 Jul 2024
Hymenaea courbaril

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jul 2024

Global lakes are in hot water amid climate change

Bobby Bascomb 30 Jul 2024
Shelly Boyd, a Sinixt woman, co-leads the annual salmon ceremony at Kettle Falls and keeps tradition alive by singing songs that have been sung there for millennia.

A tribe once declared ‘extinct’ helps reintroduce salmon to the Columbia River

Anna Dulisse 30 Jul 2024

In Nepal, criticizing government conservation policies is becoming harder

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jul 2024
Ailton Krenak

It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous author Ailton Krenak

Jaqueline Sordi 30 Jul 2024

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