A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’
Aug 1, 2022, 3:53 pm ByBENGKALIS, Indonesia — On the east coast of the island of Sumatra lies a grove of timber, fruit…Delectable but destructive: Tracing chocolate’s environmental life cycle
Aug 1, 2022, 3:52 pm ByChocolate is a treat beloved across the world. But how much do we know about our favorite guilty…In world first, Chile to ban single-use F&B products over three years
Aug 1, 2022, 12:00 pm ByNew legislation passed by the Chilean government in May 2021 aims to rid the nation of all…Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows
Aug 1, 2022, 10:00 am ByThe deaths of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous rights defender Bruno Pereira in June this year…No permit? No problem for palm oil company still clearing forest in Papua
Aug 1, 2022, 9:25 am ByJAKARTA — More than 100 Indigenous people in Indonesia’s Papua region are calling on the local…Mozambique busts notorious rhino poacher
Aug 1, 2022, 7:53 am ByMAPUTO — Authorities in Mozambique have arrested two men for allegedly attempting to sell rhino…From agribusiness to oil to nuclear power and submarines: welcome to anti-environmental Putin-Bolsonaro alliance (commentary)
Aug 1, 2022, 4:05 am ByAs if all the strategic and political aspects of the Putin-Bolsonaro alliance weren’t detrimental…Young Indigenous leaders demand greater say in climate solutions at global youth strike
Jul 29, 2022, 10:04 pm ByThe 2022 Fridays for Future (FFF) International Meeting held in Turin, Italy, ended today with a…A clean and healthy environment is a human right, U.N. resolution declares
Jul 29, 2022, 2:54 pm ByThis week, member states of the U.N. General Assembly — the highest UN body that wields…IPLC leaders in Africa demand a reckoning over protected areas. They get a call to action
Jul 29, 2022, 1:21 pm ByWhen Milka Chepkorir Kuto took the stage on July 18 at the opening ceremony of the Africa Protected…Nepal was supposed to double its tiger population since 2010. It tripled it
Jul 29, 2022, 12:23 pm ByKATHMANDU — The number of tigers in Nepal has nearly tripled over the past 12 years, officials…Brazilian miners ramp up their invasion of Yanomami land in Venezuela
Jul 29, 2022, 9:10 am ByIn southern Venezuela, the headwaters of some of the country’s largest rivers snake through remote…For World Tiger Day, bold new commitments are needed to expand tiger ranges (commentary)
Jul 29, 2022, 2:09 am ByIn 2010, in the Lunar Year of the Tiger, the governments of 13 Tiger Range Countries met in St…Deforestation intensifies in northern Malaysia’s most important water catchment
Jul 28, 2022, 10:19 pm BySpanning more than 1,600 square kilometers (620 square miles), the Ulu Muda rainforest is one of the…Indigenous Shuar community in Ecuador wins decades-long battle to protect land
Jul 28, 2022, 4:22 pm ByAn Indigenous community in Ecuador has finally obtained national protections for part of its…Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change
Jul 28, 2022, 8:40 am ByThere are moments in researchers’ lives when they realize the significance of something they…In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil
Jul 28, 2022, 7:46 am ByThe world’s largest bank of the partially decomposed plant matter known as peat in the tropics is…Rains quell fire risk around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, but the future looks fiery
Jul 27, 2022, 8:08 pm ByPREK TABAEK, Cambodia — The roots of the forests surrounding Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake spend…Giant kangaroo fossil points to previously unknown species in New Guinea
Jul 27, 2022, 6:42 pm ByA previously unknown genus of primitive giant kangaroo that once roamed the rainforests of New…For residents of Jakarta’s port district, coal is the neighbor no one wants
Jul 27, 2022, 2:48 pm ByJAKARTA — In May, Indonesians breathed a sigh of relief when President Joko Widodo announced that…
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