Stranded coal barge spills cargo, disrupts fishery in Indonesian waters
Apr 7, 2022, 2:52 pm BySUMENEP, Indonesia — A coal barge that ran aground in the sea off the Indonesian island of Java…Razing of Indigenous hamlet highlights Nepal’s conservation challenge
Apr 7, 2022, 2:27 pm ByKATHMANDU — On the evening of March 27, as residents of the settlement of Kusum Khola, on the…More than half of activists killed in 2021 were land, environment defenders
Apr 7, 2022, 2:13 pm ByAt least 358 human rights defenders were killed in 2021, according to an analysis by Front Line…Countries that sanctioned Myanmar’s junta are still buying their timber: Report
Apr 7, 2022, 3:43 am ByMyanmar’s military-led regime exported more than $190 million worth of timber in 2021, including…Podcast: Afield at last, researchers head out for a new season
Apr 7, 2022, 12:00 am ByIt’s that time of year when many researchers are heading out into the field again, and for some…How much does air travel warm the planet? New study gives a figure
5:55pm ByWhen Milan Klöwer spoke to Mongabay, he was fresh off the train in Germany. As a postdoctoral…Shell of a comeback: New app, awareness campaigns bring hope for hawksbill turtles
2:33pm ByNew conservation efforts for critically endangered hawksbill sea turtles are starting to make a…Photography, nature, truth and war: Q&A with top photographer Ami Vitale
2:32pm ByAward-winning National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale, recently made a short film called Shaba…GM fish engineered to glow in the dark are found in Brazil creeks
7:00am ByOne of Brazil’s most threatened biomes, the Atlantic Forest, now faces a new hazard: genetically…Indonesia’s Riau province declares state of emergency ahead of fire season
Tue 4:11pm ByPEKANBARU, Indonesia — Upon his inauguration as governor of Riau in early 2019, Syamsuar promised…‘Resilient’ leatherback turtles can survive fishing rope entanglements. Mostly
Tue 4:10pm ByLeatherback sea turtles run a gantlet of fishing lines and other human impacts during their annual…Climate change causes a run on banks, for crop genes (commentary)
Tue 4:03pm ByAs climate change brings extreme conditions to more parts of the world, the requests to draw down…Protecting water by conserving forests puts communities in Mexico to the test
Tue 3:16pm By“It still rains here,” says Emeterio Hernández Cano, the San Francisco communal land…Palm oil firm that cleared Papuan forest after losing its permit is still at it
Tue 2:34pm ByJAKARTA — A palm oil company whose permit was revoked at the start of the year and which was…The amazing — and unknown — diversity of insects living in the Amazon canopy
Tue 10:24am BySmall and often imperceptible to the human eye, insects play a vital role in the environment.…‘Sharing the air’ proves a challenge for new Nepal airport in bird paradise
Tue 7:30am ByKATHMANDU — Nine lakes listed as Ramsar sites, perennial rivers that start from the Himalayas and…IPCC report calls for ‘immediate and deep’ carbon cuts to slow climate change
Tue 7:06am ByCurrent pledges to cut emissions won’t be enough to slow climate change, according to a new report…All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine
Apr 4, 2022, 8:01 pm ByThe environmental impacts of cocaine have long been known. Studies raised alarm bells in the 1990s…Seagrass joins other marine life in accumulating sunscreen compounds
Apr 4, 2022, 5:56 pm BySharing sunscreen with family and friends is part and parcel of any trip to the seaside. Now,…For Indonesians, palm oil is everywhere but on supermarket shelves
Apr 4, 2022, 2:47 pm ByJAKARTA — Cartel practices have been blamed for a scarcity of cooking oil in the world’s top…
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