Chatterbox chimps converse just like humans (but with more gestures)
Jul 29, 2024, 10:11 am ByFor more than 15 years, an international team of researchers intermittently followed five groups of…Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate
Jul 29, 2024, 10:08 am ByAMAZONAS, Brazil: Two researchers wearing long-sleeved shirts and pants to resist mosquitos, and…In Sonora, communities fight mining to defend their water
Jul 29, 2024, 10:00 am ByProtesters in the northwest Mexican state of Sonora are blocking the country’s largest mining…DNA testing proves that cocoa originated in the Amazon and reveals robust pre-Columbian trade
Jul 29, 2024, 7:46 am ByIt’s hard to imagine the history that lies behind the cacao trees grown on agroforestry farms in…As human-elephant conflicts in Sumatra rise, so does risk from electric fences
Jul 29, 2024, 12:01 am ByCENTRAL ACEH, Indonesia — Mak Besan dropped a clutch of cayenne peppers picked from a neighbor’s…In sub-Saharan Africa, ‘forgotten’ foods could boost climate resilience, nutrition
Jul 26, 2024, 2:17 pm ByFor many people across sub-Saharan Africa, Cleome gyandra, commonly known as the spider plant, is…Brazil’s wildcat mining is deeply rooted in its politics and thirst for minerals
Jul 26, 2024, 2:05 pm ByGold mining has been a feature of the Andean Amazon since pre-Colombian times and, along with…The Amazon’s most fertile forests are also most vulnerable to drought: Study
Jul 26, 2024, 1:41 pm ByThe Amazon’s most fertile, productive forests, which are critical for supplying Brazil’s…Rhino poop draws all the deer (and boars and more) to the yard, study finds
Jul 26, 2024, 12:28 pm ByKATHMANDU — Amid the tall, rustling elephant grass on the banks of a nearly stagnant Rapti River,…Gold mining in the Amazon has doubled in area since 2018, AI tool shows
Jul 26, 2024, 9:23 am ByIn 2021, scientists and journalists got together to train an artificial intelligence model on how to…Peruvian bills could imperil marine biodiversity & artisanal fishing, experts say
Jul 26, 2024, 4:54 am ByThis is the second in a series of stories covering the Peruvian fishing industry and was originally…Palm oil company fined for cheating; Sulawesi farmers to reap their due rupiah
Jul 26, 2024, 4:07 am ByJAKARTA — The Indonesian government has ordered a palm oil company to pay 1 billion rupiah…Indigenous midwives in Panama strive to preserve traditional medicine for maternal health
Jul 25, 2024, 4:09 pm ByKUERIMA, Panama — Once you’re within the Ngäbe-Buglé Indigenous territory in western Panama,…DRC’s golden-bellied mangabeys: A little-known but much-threatened monkey
Jul 25, 2024, 3:18 pm ByDeep in the Congo rainforest, Edward McLester witnessed a spectacle few scientists have seen: a…DRC conflict hinders search for Itombwe nightjar, but ‘lost’ bird may yet be found
Jul 25, 2024, 12:57 pm ByA rare bird known only from a single specimen captured in the eastern Congo Basin nearly 70 years…In choice of mangroves or livelihood, Vietnam shrimp farmers choose the latter
Jul 25, 2024, 11:25 am ByShrimp farming is a leading driver of mangrove deforestation the world over. As demand for the sweet…Troubled rubber plantation in Liberia shuts down after labor unrest
Jul 25, 2024, 7:22 am ByTwo prominent union leaders remain in prison a month after the headquarters of the Salala Rubber…Short on funds and long on risk, Venezuelan conservation groups worry for future
Jul 25, 2024, 6:28 am ByConservation has become a near-impossible task in many parts of Venezuela. Government funding has…Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon combat droughts and floods
Jul 25, 2024, 5:28 am ByLuis Fernando Pumuy turns on the spigot outside of his house and splashes water onto most of his…In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset project
Jul 24, 2024, 6:38 pm ByThis is the second article in our two-part series on Indigenous land rights and the Keo Seima REDD+…
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