Seed banks catalog Brazil’s food past to safeguard its future
10:19am ByOn an island in the estuary known as Lagoa dos Patos, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, an old…Repeated fires are silencing the Amazon, says new acoustic monitoring study
8:48am ByThe rainforest is dense with sound. Like musicians in an orchestra, each animal plays a part,…Poor planning, persistent farming undermine mangrove restoration in Tanzania
Wed 3:53pm ByTanzania’s Rufiji Delta is arguably the mangrove capital of East Africa, home to around 55,000…U.N., rights groups flag potential violations in $3b Indonesian tourism project
Wed 2:37pm ByJAKARTA — The United Nations has reiterated its concerns over allegations of human rights…For wildlife on Brazil’s highways, roadkill is just the tip of the iceberg
Wed 11:05am ByBrazil, one of the largest countries in the world, is crisscrossed by a network of roads and…Meet the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners
Wed 7:31am BySeven grassroots environmental activists will receive the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize…Sri Lankan wins Linnean Medal, the ‘Nobel Prize for naturalists’ (commentary)
May 24, 2022, 11:18 pm ByLooking at the roll call of Linnean Medal winners is to witness the history of natural history,…Caribbean incursion into Amazon sparked a flurry of life, with lessons for the future
May 24, 2022, 9:42 pm ByScientists already knew that where the western Amazon rainforest sits today was once a vast wetland,…Tale of two pandemics as miners thrived while communities faced restrictions
May 24, 2022, 5:36 pm ByCASILLAS, Guatemala — Evelin Cante got involved in the protest camp right from the start. Her…Efforts bloom to save southern Brazil’s last butiá palm groves
May 24, 2022, 2:37 pm ByThe butiá landscapes of Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state are exotic, even by the standards of…In Sierra Leone, local fishers and foreign trawlers battle for their catch
May 24, 2022, 1:12 pm ByFREETOWN, Sierra Leone — As dawn breaks, the fishing wharf at Tamba Kula in Freetown buzzes with…For reef mantas, Indonesia’s Komodo National Park is a ray of hope
May 24, 2022, 10:50 am ByTangled up too often in fishing nets, manta rays have been plunging toward extinction as fishing…In the Mekong’s murky depths, giants abound, new expedition finds
May 24, 2022, 10:10 am ByAn underwater expedition has confirmed the presence of some of the world’s largest and most…Tiger-centric conservation efforts push other predators to the fringes
May 24, 2022, 9:51 am ByKATHMANDU — The monsoon season in Nepal is expected to begin in the second week of June, which…200 mysterious sea turtle deaths: Q&A with Kenyan fisherman and turtle rescuer Daniel Katana
May 23, 2022, 5:59 pm ByMARERENI, Kenya — One day in April, at a few minutes past six in the morning, the sun’s golden…Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies
May 23, 2022, 3:26 pm ByIn her landmark 1962 book, Silent Spring, biologist Rachel Carson chronicled the damage — and…Stained by oil: A history of spills and impunity in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia
May 23, 2022, 11:28 am ByOn some days, a strong smell of oil wafts through the Indigenous Kichwa community of October 12,…Investors force Home Depot to review wood-sourcing policy over logging concerns
May 23, 2022, 7:15 am ByPressure from investors and conservationists has forced Home Depot to reevaluate how it does…Ecotours aimed at saving monkeys are likely stressing them out, study finds
May 23, 2022, 5:15 am ByThe first time you see a proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), you might be hit with a mix of…‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom
May 23, 2022, 12:00 am ByWhen the Indigenous villagers of Tebing Tinggi agreed to give control of their ancestral land to a…
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