How ‘waste colonialism’ underpins Asia’s plastic problem (commentary)
‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is a typical approach to waste and is one of the main reasons why the waste trade persists. The world discovered that toxic waste was being dumped in Africa and other...
View ArticleEasy to catch, yet little known: Meet the Chinese mountain cat
In 2018, Han Xue-song, then a researcher with the Beijing-based Shan Shui Conservation Center, was in the Sanjiangyuan region on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, surveying black-necked cranes (Grus...
View ArticleFlatulence tax: Denmark agrees deal for livestock emissions levy
Denmark has agreed on how to implement the world’s first tax on agricultural emissions, including flatulence by livestock. This comes after months of negotiations between the country’s major parties,...
View ArticleOrganizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests
ANTONINA, Brazil — In the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, the small coastal town of Antonina gets abundant and high-quality water for its nearly 20,000 inhabitants from a nearby water reserve, one...
View ArticleA Ramsar site in Bangladesh fast loses its fish diversity amid government...
Born and raised in the locality of one of Bangladesh’s Ramsar site Tanguar Haor, 58-year-old farmer Bazlur Rahman says he feels proud to belong to the scenic swamp. A wetland that the country’s...
View ArticleDam displaces farmers as drought parches Indonesia’s Flores Island
NAGEKEO, Indonesia — The land weighed on Mateus Bhui as he sifted the Rendubutowe soil through his fingers into a traditional container. “To our ancestors: please don’t be angry,” Mateus said,...
View ArticleBiden tours Amazon Rainforest, pledges funding in advance of Trump
U.S. President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Brazilian Amazon on Nov. 17, where he pledged $50 million for the state-led Amazon Fund to help conserve the world’s largest and most biodiverse...
View Article‘Historic’ decision for the Batwa & DRC gorilla park faces hurdles — and hope
In a historic 2022 ruling, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found that the forced eviction of the Indigenous Batwa community from the Kahuzi-Biega National Park was a violation of...
View ArticleBiodiversity credit approaches multiply as concerns cloud confidence
In the two years since biodiversity credits garnered a prominent mention in the 2022 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) aimed at halting the loss of wildlife, a flurry of projects and methods that...
View Article‘Scratching the surface’ of Nepal butterfly research: Interview with Sanej Suwal
KATHMANDU — Nepal is home to a diversity of butterfly species, with 692 identified. More than two dozen species and subspecies have been found to be endemic to Nepal. Despite this, research on...
View ArticleCamera traps reveal little-known Sumatran tiger forests need better protection
Camera-trap surveys have documented a sizeable but struggling population of Sumatran tigers clinging on in unprotected forests in Indonesia’s Aceh province. The study is the most robust evidence to...
View ArticleIndigenous guardians embark on a sacred pact to protect the lowland tapir in...
In the forest’s fecund gloom, José Muchavisoy leads the guardians of the territory as they scan the undergrowth for trails left by their target. Strangely splayed paw prints, dung among the leaf...
View ArticleScottish salmon farms seek growth despite mounting fish deaths and...
ULLAPOOL, U.K. — The fish float on the surface by the dozen, their bellies pointing toward the still-dark sky of the early morning. We are peering into a cage of an intensive Atlantic salmon farm,...
View ArticleWhy are so many Coho salmon dying? The answer might be in your tires
For decades, Coho salmon were turning up dead in urban streams the Pacific Northwest. The salmon would stop swimming straight, and then die before they had a chance to spawn. Researchers worried that...
View ArticleFive-year rainforest tech competition culminates with four winners
The task at hand was nothing short of grueling. In the depths of the Amazon Rainforest earlier this year, it was a mad scramble as six teams deployed cutting-edge technology to survey a 100-hectare...
View ArticleExperts welcome Brazil’s revived reforestation plan as much-needed boost
At last month’s United Nations biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, the Brazilian delegation proposed an ambitious program: Under its newly revised initiative to restore native ecosystems, it would...
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Climate change made all of this year’s Atlantic hurricanes so much worse
Like wildfires chewing through dried-out forests, hurricane after hurricane fed on extra-hot ocean water this summer and fall before slamming into communities along the Gulf Coast, causing hundreds of...
View ArticleRecent surge in methane emissions driven by microbes: Study
Emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide, increased at record-high rates between 2020 and 2022. A new study suggests that rather than fossil fuels, microbes...
View ArticleRelief in Sri Lanka as key threat to nonprotected forests is repealed
COLOMBO — Environmental activists in Sri Lanka are celebrating the end of a 2020 decree that left the island’s nonprotected forests more vulnerable to agriculture and development projects. “This is a...
View ArticleYoung climate advocates against carbon markets at COP29
Negotiators at the ongoing U.N. climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, have adopted a controversial provision on carbon trading that critics say will enable rich countries and companies to simply pay to...
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