Study shows most Amazon beef & soy demand comes from Brazil — not exports
Aug 28, 2024, 3:33 pm BySince the first roads opened the way to the cheap and unexplored lands of northern Brazil in the…Rio Tinto-linked mine still not fulfilling promises to Mongolian herders
Aug 28, 2024, 11:09 am ByIn 2004, nomadic herders in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert faced a daunting prospect. One of the world’s…As Ghana pushes mining in forests, a cautionary tale from a fading forest
Aug 28, 2024, 9:41 am ByAPAMPRAMA, Ghana — Since 2017, the Ghanaian government has aggressively pursued small-scale miners…Ghana hollows out forests and green protections to advance mining interests
Aug 28, 2024, 8:33 am ByIn 2022, the West African nation of Ghana lost 18,000 hectares, or 44,500 acres, of forests — an…As Amazonian rivers recede under drought, manatees are left exposed to poaching
Aug 27, 2024, 2:18 pm ByAmazonian manatees are an elusive species inhabiting the murky depths of the Amazon Rainforest’s…Eucalyptus expansion worsens droughts and fires in Brazil’s Cerrado, conservationists say
Aug 27, 2024, 9:05 am BySuzano, the world’s largest exporter of eucalyptus pulp, vigorously promotes an environmentally…Biden-Harris Administration must strengthen position on plastic reduction treaty (commentary)
Aug 27, 2024, 8:04 am ByWith a final round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty set to take place later this year in…CITES suspends Bangladesh as illegal wild bird trade continues
Aug 27, 2024, 6:41 am ByBangladesh, a signatory nation of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species…Indonesia’s new ‘green’ capital drives environmental damage far and wide
Aug 27, 2024, 5:12 am ByJAKARTA — For the first time since it declared independence in 1945, Indonesia held its official…Budget constraints limit wildlife protection in major Nepali road project
Aug 27, 2024, 1:17 am ByNARAYANGHAT, Nepal — Amid the clatter of drills and honking trucks hauling cement, sand and…Will we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of climate change
Aug 26, 2024, 4:32 pm ByIn the 2020 science-fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, author Kim Stanley Robinson imagines…Indigenous communities sidelined for Suriname’s new carbon credit program, critics say
Aug 26, 2024, 4:14 pm ByLocal and Indigenous communities in Suriname are speaking out about a new carbon credit trading…Meet the little-known African tortoise with a hatchback for a shell
Aug 26, 2024, 1:52 pm ByEvolution thought of everything long before we did. Take the case of the…In Bali, water temple priests guide a sustainable rice production system
Aug 26, 2024, 12:43 pm ByUBUD, Indonesia — Inside the small, open-air stone temple in the center of the Lotudunduh rice…Biodiversity’s Tower of Babel: The confusion & compromise of Convention on Biological Diversity Decision 15/9 (commentary)
Aug 24, 2024, 9:57 am ByUnderlying parables of biblical metaphors are often only dimly remembered. The name Babel comes from…Nepal’s buffalo-kills-tiger story reveals deeper pains in compensation system
Aug 23, 2024, 10:10 pm ByKATHMANDU — Yes, you read the headline right: On Aug. 22, in a rare incident, a tethered domestic…China accepts U.N. recommendations to improve environmental conflicts in Latin America
Aug 23, 2024, 1:08 pm ByIt’s been a little over a decade since China launched its Belt and Road Initiative, a global…Time to highlight South Asia’s less-studied vultures: Interview with Krishna Bhusal
Aug 23, 2024, 5:53 am ByKATHMANDU — The story of South Asia’s vultures has been a tragedy played out at warp speed,…As southern African freshwater fish & fisheries struggle, collaboration is key (commentary)
Aug 22, 2024, 2:59 pm ByScientists, communities and government officials from five African countries agree that the…Logging done sustainably doesn’t have to harm ecosystem services, study finds
Aug 22, 2024, 12:51 pm ByResearchers have found that low-intensity logging of a tropical forest has no negative impacts on…
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