From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story
Mar 23, 2022, 5:03 pm BySHOUF BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Lebanon — Late afternoon light falls across Talal Riman’s weathered…Bird-counting app kindles interest in Nepal’s rich avian life
Mar 23, 2022, 3:58 pm ByKATHMANDU — Hundreds of bird lovers in Nepal, who would otherwise have been enjoying the spring…Stamping out savanna fires doesn’t bolster carbon sink by much, study finds
Mar 23, 2022, 1:41 pm ByA nearly seven-decade-long experiment in South Africa’s largest national park is yielding…Ships sunk in nuclear tests host diverse corals, study says. But do we need them?
Mar 23, 2022, 11:36 am ByOn May 25, 1946, the United States detonated the first underwater nuclear bomb at Bikini Atoll in…Indigenous communities transform a Mexican desert landscape into forest
Mar 23, 2022, 10:51 am ByIn Tepejillo, on one of the many hills in the southern Mexican municipality of San Juan Bautista…Deforestation for palm oil falls in Southeast Asia, but is it a trend or a blip?
Mar 23, 2022, 4:26 am ByJAKARTA — Deforestation associated with palm oil in the region covering Indonesia, Malaysia and…Multiyear ice thinner than thought as Arctic sea ice reaches winter max: Studies
Mar 22, 2022, 8:35 pm ByArctic sea ice has reached its annual maximum at 14.88 million sq. km. (5.75 million sq. mi.), the…In Brazil, a forest community fights to remain on its traditional land
Mar 22, 2022, 6:57 pm By“We are hopeful, we never gave up on our goal, to get our house back,” says Heber do Prado…Donors must rethink Africa’s flagging Green Revolution, new evaluation shows (commentary)
Mar 22, 2022, 3:30 pm ByA critical new donor-funded evaluation of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has…Chemical recycling: ‘Green’ plastics solution makes more pollution: Report
Mar 22, 2022, 2:35 pm ByA host of cutting-edge plastics processing technologies, known collectively as ‘chemical…Cambodian project aims to revive flagging fish populations in Tonle Sap Lake
Mar 22, 2022, 10:52 am ByAt a young age, Mekong giant catfish look the same as striped river catfish, their regular-size,…‘Right moon for fishing’: Study finds gravitational impacts on plants, animals
Mar 22, 2022, 10:44 am ByElectrical engineer Cristiano de Mello Gallep was working in a biophotonics laboratory in the city…In Rio de Janeiro, a forest slowly returns to life, one species at a time
Mar 21, 2022, 8:50 pm By“Without the fruit of the juçara palm to eat Without a strong branch to perch on Without an…Brazil’s ecosystem of crime in the Amazon (commentary)
Mar 21, 2022, 8:30 pm ByIt’s a long way from Kyiv to Itaituba, but Brazil’s busy wildcat gold prospectors don’t need a…Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon
Mar 21, 2022, 6:16 pm ByMany of us imagine the Brazilian Amazon to be pristine. But evidence of humanity’s modern…Fourth round of U.N. talks fail to finalize a treaty to manage the high seas
Mar 21, 2022, 1:31 pm ByU.N. member states failed on March 18 to finalize a legally binding tool to sustainably manage the…‘Studying a ghost’: In Cape Town, urban caracals give researchers lots to ponder
Mar 21, 2022, 12:48 pm ByEven in the isolated, scrubby plains of the savanna, spotting the black ear tufts of a caracal…Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy
Mar 21, 2022, 11:44 am ByTropical forests across the world are hurting. Climate change is intensifying drought and wildfires…2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of ranching, agriculture
Mar 21, 2022, 9:15 am ByThe Amazon lost millions of hectares of primary forest in 2021, mostly as the result of cattle…Poor waste management turns dump sites into death traps for Sri Lanka’s elephants
Mar 20, 2022, 5:47 am ByCOLOMBO — It took a tweet from Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio to bring the issue of…
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