‘Development’ projects in Ethiopia leave starvation, disease in wake: Report
Feb 12, 2023, 3:40 pm ByA flagship dam and large-scale sugarcane plantations in southwestern Ethiopia are causing starvation…Costa Rica announces ban on fishing of hammerhead sharks
Feb 10, 2023, 8:43 pm ByMEXICO CITY — Fishing for hammerhead sharks is now illegal in Costa Rica, thanks to the signing of…Amid global mezcal craze, scientists and communities try out sustainable plantations
Feb 10, 2023, 7:07 pm ByTEHUACÁN-CUICATLÁN BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Mexico — The palenques, or local mezcal production sites,…Biden-Lula Meeting: The time is right for U.S. and Brazil to work together for Amazonia (commentary)
Feb 10, 2023, 3:59 pm ByThe Amazon rainforest and its people have gone through tough times recently. For the last four…Element Africa: A lawsuit over oil, deaths over mining, and worries over lithium
Feb 10, 2023, 1:31 pm ByNiger Delta community pursues new claims over Shell oil spills in U.K. court More than 11,000 people…Study suggests canine distemper may be fueling human-leopard conflicts in Nepal
Feb 10, 2023, 11:11 am ByKATHMANDU — On Nov. 1 last year, a leopard dragged off an 8-year-old boy as he was playing just…Brazil-U.S. cooperation is key for global forest conservation (commentary)
Feb 9, 2023, 11:55 pm ByTwo days after the two-year anniversary of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, copycat mayhem…Lula’s government must go far beyond undoing Bolsonaro policies on Amazon forest and Indigenous communities (commentary)
Feb 9, 2023, 7:22 pm ByThe Amazonian Chief Raoni Metuktire visited the U.K. in January 2020, accompanied by Megaron…Update gives practical guidance for buyers of tropical forest carbon credits
Feb 9, 2023, 6:06 pm ByEight conservation and Indigenous organizations have released a detailed guide for companies looking…New reserve in Ecuador secures over 3 million acres of forest
Feb 9, 2023, 5:51 pm ByEcuador this month recognized a new reserve in the Amazon rainforest in hopes of protecting…No croak: New silent frog species described from Tanzania’s ‘sky island’ forests
Feb 9, 2023, 5:43 pm ByUp in Tanzania’s Ukaguru Mountains, researchers have found a new-to-science frog species with a…Win for science as BP pressured into cleaning up offshore gas plans
Feb 9, 2023, 4:05 pm ByDAKAR — Scientists warning of a “potential ecological disaster” from gas drilling off West…Peatland restoration in temperate nations could be carbon storage bonanza
Feb 9, 2023, 3:46 pm ByOn April 6, 1985, a soil mining machine sparked a peat fire near the North Carolina coast in an…Saving Masungi, a last green corridor of the Philippines: Q&A with Ann Dumaliang
Feb 9, 2023, 3:01 pm By“A lot of people talk about conservation in terms of theory, in terms of simply what is shown in…Climate change makes its presence felt in the Amazon’s shrinking fish
Feb 9, 2023, 2:51 pm By“Everything is happening at the wrong time,” says Myrian Pereira Vasques. “The trees are…‘If Brazil starts with us, why did we arrive last?’: Q&A with Indigenous lawmaker Célia Xakriabá
Feb 8, 2023, 9:26 pm ByBRASÍLIA — Célia Xakriabá recalls how, during her campaign last year for a seat in the Chamber…Podcast: Moths vs. mines in Ecuador’s astounding biodiversity hotspot
Feb 8, 2023, 8:38 pm BySince the 1990s, communities of the Intag Valley of Ecuador have been leading a conservation…Sustainable fish farming & agroecology buoy Kenyan communities
Feb 8, 2023, 7:16 pm ByGATUNGA, Kenya — The dry spell that troubled Kenya for the past few years has shaken the…X-Press Pearl salvage continues as study shows toxic effects of disaster
Feb 8, 2023, 6:11 pm ByCOLOMBO — The Singapore-flagged X-Press Pearl was a brand-new container ship, only three months…Restore linked habitat to protect tropical amphibians from disease: Study
Feb 8, 2023, 5:07 pm ByAs a precipitous global biodiversity decline escalates, forests across the tropics are increasingly…
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