Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies
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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…Easing of crackdown sees Vietnam boats encroach into Indonesian waters
May 20, 2022, 4:07 pm ByBATAM/JAKARTA, Indonesia — A recent spate of illegal fishing incursions into Indonesian waters by…That ‘killer’ spider story you read online? Fake news, most probably
May 20, 2022, 1:15 pm ByThe prevalence of political and scientific misinformation in the media is a hot-button topic these…Researchers compile largest-ever photo database of Amazon wildlife
May 20, 2022, 10:27 am ByIn the world’s largest rainforest, wildlife crawls, hops, flies and prowls through every nook and…A whiz and a buzz: Bee attacks at Sri Lanka rock fortress point to need for toilets
May 20, 2022, 10:07 am ByCOLOMBO — They’ve been called, erroneously, wasps and hornets, but the aggression is undeniable.…The price of oil spills in Peru and Colombia? Millions of dollars in fines
May 20, 2022, 9:21 am ByOver the past four decades, there have been more than 400 reported oil spills in the Peruvian…In Singapore, a forensics lab wields CSI-like tech against wildlife traffickers
May 20, 2022, 8:31 am By“Initially we were all excited because we had intercepted a record-breaking ivory shipment,”…Drivers of Colombia’s peacetime deforestation weave a complex web
May 20, 2022, 7:00 am ByWhen the Colombian government struck its historic peace accord with the paramilitary group FARC in…Cambodia: Development threatens a last refuge of wildlife rescued from illegal trade (commentary)
May 20, 2022, 12:18 am ByFor over 20 years the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC), run by the Cambodian Forestry…Results from mining tax for reforestation in the DRC leave more questions than answers
May 19, 2022, 10:42 pm ByLUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo – Through taxes, in particular the reforestation tax,…Conflict over resources in Kenya hits deadly highs with firearms in play
May 19, 2022, 9:22 pm ByBARINGO COUNTY, Kenya – Last December in the town of Marigat, in Kenya’s central Baringo county,…As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?
May 19, 2022, 3:25 pm ByThis is part two of a two part series on the Asian biomass expansion. Part one can be found here.…9m deaths a year from pollution, the ‘largest existential threat’ to humans
May 19, 2022, 9:38 am ByPollution is currently responsible for at least 9 million premature deaths a year worldwide,…In Bangladesh, a community comes together to save a life-giving forest
May 19, 2022, 8:42 am ByKAMALCHHORI, Bangladesh — Anupam Chakma, 60, has lived in the hilly village of Kamalchhori in…Slick operator: Indonesian cooking oil probe may spread to biodiesel industry
May 19, 2022, 3:56 am ByJAKARTA — Prosecutors in Indonesia have arrested a prominent economist in an ongoing investigation…Podcast: Vandana Shiva on the agroecology solution for climate, biodiversity and hunger
11:59pm ByToday we’re talking about agroecology, which applies ecological principles to agricultural systems…
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