World’s worst air pollution slashes 7 years off life expectancy in Bangladesh
Jun 16, 2022, 12:50 pm ByDHAKA — Air pollution in Bangladesh is the worst in the world, contributing to a reduction of…Podcast: New whale calls and dolphin behaviors discovered with bioacoustics
Jun 15, 2022, 8:55 pm ByToday we’re looking at two stories that show how bioacoustic research is helping us better…Farmers in Mexico fight coffee disease with resistant varieties and agroforestry
Jun 15, 2022, 8:08 pm BySANTIAGO ATITLÁN, Mexico – Lucio Jimenez Ocampo is always surrounded by coffee. In the yard of…‘Lost’ Amazonian cities hint at how to build urban landscapes without harming nature
Jun 15, 2022, 3:47 pm ByIt was over twenty years ago when locals in Bolivia’s northern plains told archeologist Heiko…Brazil shows no progress in response to U.N. calls on Indigenous rights
Jun 15, 2022, 3:24 pm ByIn May 2017, Brazilian representatives to the United Nations Human Rights Council brought back 242…Sea restoration projects quilt a ‘mosaic of habitats’ with striking results
Jun 15, 2022, 3:00 pm ByAfter years of scallop dredging and fish farming, Loch Craignish, a coastal inlet near Argyll,…Draining tropical peatlands for oil palms isn’t just bad — it’s unnecessary, study shows
Jun 15, 2022, 10:39 am ByJAKARTA — For decades, oil palm farmers in Indonesia have drained — and destroyed — tropical…Nepal conservationists work to overturn ‘all snakes are venomous’ mindset
Jun 15, 2022, 6:53 am ByKATHMANDU — Kamal Devkota, who campaigns for snake conservation in Nepal, doesn’t always have an…Maasai protesters shot, beaten as Tanzania moves forward with wildlife game reserve
Jun 14, 2022, 11:48 pm ByWhen 700 members of Tanzania’s anti-riot Field Force Unit (FFU) arrived in the Loliondo division…Mahogany, a pillar of the rainforest, needs support (commentary)
Jun 14, 2022, 9:21 pm ByMahogany is everything you would want in a tree: tall and majestic, with leaves up to half a meter…Zoo animals not immune to Sri Lanka’s economic rout as food prices surge
Jun 14, 2022, 7:20 pm ByCOLOMBO — Si Lanka’s main zoo is bracing for a food crunch for its 4,500 animals, amid runaway…‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern
Jun 14, 2022, 4:17 pm ByIluka Alain was a bit surprised when the two men turned up on a motorcycle in December 2021 in…Latest ‘plan for the planet’ calls for protecting 44% of land, home to 1.8b humans
Jun 14, 2022, 1:54 pm ByHow much of Earth’s terrestrial area needs protection to secure the planet’s biodiversity? A new…Coal mining threatens Ethiopia’s ancient coffee forest
Jun 14, 2022, 1:41 pm BySitting high in the hills of southwestern Ethiopia, the thick green forest of Yayu is a haven of…Indonesia issues long-delayed rules to protect migrant fishing workers
Jun 14, 2022, 2:37 am ByJAKARTA — Indonesia has issued a much-anticipated decree to boost the protection of Indonesian…Proposed copper and gold mine threatens the world’s ‘second Amazon’ in PNG
Jun 13, 2022, 3:20 pm ByThe Sepik River takes an unhurried 1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles, to snake from the lush highland…World is losing ‘magical’ tradition of human-animal mutualism, study warns
Jun 13, 2022, 1:05 pm ByGcina Dlamini blows through a whistle fashioned from a piece of dried fruit in the forest near his…Loggers close in on one of the world’s oldest biosphere reserves
Jun 13, 2022, 11:04 am ByISANGI, Congo — In a secluded corner of the Congo, machetes in hand, scientists make their way…‘GPS’ bird points to the sweet spot: Q&A with honey hunter Eliupendo Laltaika
Jun 13, 2022, 10:17 am ByEliupendo Laltaika spent much of his childhood in the village of Nainokanoka, in the northern part…In Indonesian Borneo, a succession of extractive industries multiplies impacts, social fractures
Jun 13, 2022, 8:34 am ByIndustrial logging, rubber, oil palm, then coal. The snowballing effects of these extractive…
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