A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?
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Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been…Only 5% of deforesters in Brazil’s Amazon fully paid fines, report finds
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If you are caught cutting down the Amazon Rainforest illegally, chances are you will get off without…Whale songs rise and fall with food supply, study finds.
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Each year, during summer and fall, large groups of baleen whales gather off the coast of California,…Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Indigenous territory sees success, but fears remain
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In Brazil’s Amazon, an operation to remove illegal miners from the Munduruku Indigenous Territory…Brazil’s Lava Jato investigation: the biggest corruption scandal of the last decade
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The largest and most infamous corruption scandal of the last decade began with a criminal…Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost time
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In the early 2000s, deforestation levels in the Brazilian Amazon rose so tremendously that, faced…Asian elephants fall victim to poor development policies in Bangladesh
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Despite planning and accomplishing some wildlife conservation actions over the years, Bangladesh has…Fishing cat home range far bigger than previously thought, Nepal study suggests
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The home range of fishing cats (Prionailurus viverrinus), found in parts of South and Southeast…Tragedy haunts community on shore of Sumatra’s largest solar farm
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LAKE SINGKARAK, Indonesia — Mardianis recalls reading the Quran with his parents and two children…Will Brazil’s President Lula wake up to the climate crisis? (commentary)
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The situation is worse than previously thought In February 2025, three scientific papers were…When a chimp community lost its males, it also lost part of its love language
Tue 7:16pm By
Male chimpanzees in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park use distinct “auditory gestures” to…How ‘ecological empathy’ can help humans reconnect with nature and shape a better world
Tue 4:53pm By
A useful framework for considering the needs of the “more-than-human world” when designing…How one woman’s wolf ‘moon shot’ changed Yellowstone forever: Interview with director Tom Winston
Tue 1:41pm By
In March 1995, a few wolves cautiously exited their pens into the melting snow of Yellowstone…A bird last seen by Darwin 190 years ago reappears on a Galápagos island
Tue 12:42pm By
The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the…Flash floods, blackouts and a ‘sharknado’ as Cyclone Alfred lashes Australia
Tue 9:17am By
Heavy rainfall and flooding damaged homes and vehicles in Australia, with locals even reporting…Sri Lanka calls for five-minute surveys to identify crop-raiding animals
Tue 6:25am By
COLOMBO — In December 2024, Sri Lanka’s newly appointed minister of agriculture K. D.…Global “Honors” for Environmental Journalism (cartoon)
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Dom Philips, Bruno Periera, Mukesh Chandrakar, Chhoeung Chheng — these are just a few…Chitwan city using Indo-Nepal wildlife corridor for waste dump
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CHITWAN, Nepal — One of Nepal’s biggest cities on the northwestern fringes of Chitwan National…Nickel miners dig up Indonesia’s Gebe Island despite Indigenous and legal opposition
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GEBE ISLAND, Indonesia — Abdul Manan Magtiblo watched the excavator dump a piece of Gebe Island…Scientists identify more than 800 new species in global Ocean Census
Mar 10, 2025, 8:26 pm By
The Ocean Census project has identified 866 new marine species, many from the deep seas, less than…
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