Six steps to tackle exploitation in Indonesia’s palm oil smallholder scheme (commentary)
Feb 23, 2023, 10:16 am ByWhen the palm oil industry began growing rapidly in Indonesia in the 1980s, the government developed…Carbon uptake in tropical forests withers in drier future: Study
Feb 23, 2023, 9:30 am ByWarmer temperatures could significantly diminish the ability of tropical forests to siphon carbon…Experts pushing for high-seas fishing ban win ‘Nobel Prize for environment’
Feb 22, 2023, 6:49 pm ByOcean fisheries experts Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila have been awarded the 2023 Tyler Prize for…Amid war, Ukrainian biologists fight to protect conservation legacy
Feb 22, 2023, 6:37 pm ByBefore Ukrainian biologist Mikhail Rusin can grab his shovel and venture afield to search for…Nepal’s community forest program misses the biodiversity for the trees
Feb 22, 2023, 3:39 pm ByKATHMANDU — When NASA’s Earth Observatory published a post on its website earlier this year…Deforestation could pose disease threat to Amazon’s white-lipped peccaries
Feb 22, 2023, 9:00 am ByOngoing deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest jeopardizes multiple species, such as the…Podcast: Goodbye to blue skies? The trouble with engineered solutions
Feb 21, 2023, 7:59 pm ByFrom pumping aerosols into the atmosphere to combat climate change to gene-editing invasive species,…New gecko species from Timor-Leste hints at island’s unknown diversity
Feb 21, 2023, 6:30 pm ByWhile exploring a cave in Timor-Leste, a small island nation sandwiched between Indonesia and…Finland’s debate over Indigenous identity and rights turns ugly
Feb 21, 2023, 4:08 pm ByThis story was produced with the funding support of the Pulitzer Center. Janne Hirvasvuopio got his…‘They’re everywhere out there’: Three new nautilus species described
Feb 21, 2023, 2:21 pm ByDuring the 16th century, European traders sailed to the Maluku Islands, in what is today eastern…Element Africa: The platinum ‘bully’ and the secret oil deal
Feb 21, 2023, 12:24 pm BySouth Africa community stands up to ‘bully’ platinum miner GA-NGWEPE, South Africa — The South…U.S. grocery chains flunk sustainability, human rights tests for tuna sourcing
Feb 21, 2023, 12:00 pm ByCanned tuna is trending in the U.S. again: after a tail-off in its consumption in the three decades…Mating season rings death knell for cheer pheasants in Nepal’s western Himalayas
Feb 21, 2023, 8:27 am ByKATHMANDU — One of the ways people living in the western Himalayas of India, Pakistan and Nepal…Bolivia has a soy deforestation problem. It’s worse than previously thought.
Feb 21, 2023, 8:00 am ByMennonites, often searching for new land to expand their simple, rural lifestyles, have founded…Biodiversity credits: An opportunity to create a new crediting framework (commentary)
Feb 20, 2023, 11:52 pm ByBiodiversity conservation requires a fundamentally different approach to managing climate change,…‘Mercury is a complex problem’: Q&A with Colombian Mining Minister Irene Vélez Torres
Feb 20, 2023, 6:35 pm ByThe election victory in 2022 of Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first left-wing president in decades,…For some Colombians, vows of mining reform are just a flash in the pan
Feb 20, 2023, 6:26 pm By“We have to be very skeptical,” says Carlos Latorre, artisanal gold miner and the head of the…Companies, big banks are still lagging on deforestation regulations: report
Feb 20, 2023, 2:00 pm ByThere was hope, back in 2014, that the world would be able to halve deforestation rates within the…Russian invasion hinders global biodiversity conservation, study shows
Feb 20, 2023, 11:30 am ByThe red-breasted goose is a well-traveled bird. From their breeding grounds in Arctic Siberia,…Bauxite mining in Pará poisons Quilombola people
Feb 20, 2023, 10:33 am ByBarcarena – a traditional Quilombola territory in Pará – saw little of the development promised…
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