Mass sloth deaths prompt US bill calling for import ban
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Oct 22, 2026, 7:08 pm By
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Oct 22, 2026, 1:48 pm By
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Oct 22, 2026, 1:19 pm By
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Oct 22, 2026, 1:16 pm By
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Oct 22, 2026, 8:33 am By
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Oct 22, 2026, 7:13 am By
PADANG, Indonesia — Four gold miners were killed after a hillside in the Jorong Jujutan forest of…‘A decision to decide’: Greenland moves to suspend seabed mining until 2029
Oct 22, 2026, 6:44 am By
Greenland’s parliament has asked the government to pause licensing on seabed mining amid concerns…Rare Indonesian maleo birds face new threat from international exotic pet trade
Oct 22, 2026, 4:59 am By
Wildlife traffickers are increasingly targeting critically endangered maleo birds from coastal…Extractive industries threaten global goal to protect 30% of nature by 2030, report finds
Oct 21, 2026, 3:50 pm By
A new report by Earth Insight finds more than 61.5 million hectares (151.9 million acres) of…Nature has a new Noah’s Ark moment at the biodiversity summit (commentary)
Oct 21, 2026, 3:21 pm By
Delegates from most of the world’s governments are assembling this week in Yerevan, Armenia for…A ‘Treasury of Ice’ goes on show, revealing relics as Swiss glaciers rapidly melt
Oct 21, 2026, 1:37 pm By
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Oct 21, 2026, 12:48 pm By
Low-lying tropical atoll islands appear remarkably vulnerable to climate change. But when shrouded…Bangladesh garment factory workers bear the brunt of rising temperatures
Oct 21, 2026, 12:24 pm By
One afternoon earlier this year, Mridula collapsed on the floor of the Dhaka garment factory where…Just transition remains elusive for Kenyan women despite robust policies
Oct 21, 2026, 10:55 am By
Anna Fatuma is a 31-year-old woman who runs a kibandaski in Tumboni village, Kitui county in eastern…IUCN’s Madhu Rao on the world’s protected areas: Progress, pressures and the race to 2030
Oct 21, 2026, 9:56 am By
A park ranger in the Democratic Republic of Congo survived an ambush that killed colleagues. In…Sustainable silvopasture is popular with U.S. farmers despite waning financial supports
Oct 21, 2026, 9:34 am By
VERSHIRE, Vermont – When Sabra Ewing and Sebastian Lousada bought a tired dairy farm with pastures…Heavy rains during critical period of cacao cultivation hit Ghana’s yields
Oct 21, 2026, 6:32 am By
Heavy rainfall during the cacao flowering season is a major driver of Ghana’s recent harvest…Six beluga deaths cast a shadow over rescue from Canada’s Marineland
Oct 21, 2026, 6:04 am By
Six members of a pod of 30 belugas, a fifth of the whales that were transferred from a marine park…Wildlife photography’s dirty little secret
Oct 21, 2026, 5:55 am By
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