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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…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…
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