Fires rip through Indigenous territories in Brazilian Amazon
Surrounded by soy fields and cattle pastures, Xingu Indigenous Park and Capoto/Jarina Indigenous Territory — still shrouded in rainforest — stand out like a green thumb in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state....
View ArticleIn Brazil’s ‘water tank’, communities resist mining to preserve their water...
SERRO, Minas Gerais — Nature has always been intrinsic to life in Queimadas, a quilombo community located in an environmental buffer zone where the Cerrado and the Atlantic forest meet. But when...
View ArticleReporter Journal: A sunrise trek through wild solitude in New York City
New York City is home to more than eight million people but NPR’s Brian Mann mapped out an urban hike through solitude and parkland wildness. (Image credit: Brian Mann)The post Reporter Journal: A...
View ArticleMeet the US conservationist who helped create Chile’s newest national park
We look at how one US conservationist’s work is helping preserve Chile’s wilderness at the southernmost tip of the South American continent. The post Meet the US conservationist who helped create...
View ArticleSatellite data show bursts of deforestation continue in Indonesian national park
When the Indonesian government established Tesso Nilo National Park in 2004 on a former logging concession, little could it have known that the legacy of logging and deforestation would continue years...
View Article‘We’re inundated with abandoned goats’
Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats A shelter in Kent has told the BBC it is being overwhelmed by unwanted goats. Buttercups Sanctuary said it has received nearly 30 goats over the last fortnight, which...
View ArticleA landmark climate change case will open at the top U.N. court
The hearings come after years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters, (Image credit: Peter Dejong)The post A landmark climate change case will open...
View ArticleTop UN court to rule on key climate questions
The world’s top court has begun hearing evidence in a significant case that may clarify the legal responsibilities of governments in relation to climate change. The International Court of Justice...
View ArticleNamibian conservancies fight to block mining threat to rhinos
When a copper mine started operating in Namibia’s //Huab Conservancy in 2021, blasting of rock and heavy machinery disturbed the area’s critically endangered southern black rhinos, and they moved out...
View Article‘Missing’ tigers in India: Tracking gaps or oversight?
A curious case of missing tigers in India’s Ranthambore National Park has raised concerns about how authorities monitor and update fluctuating tiger numbers, and how they define “missing,” contributor...
View ArticleNo deal to curb plastic production as latest negotiations fizzle
Negotiations for a global plastics treaty ended on Dec. 2, without a consensus on how to curb plastic pollution despite its increasing negative impacts on people and nature. The fifth meeting of the...
View ArticleWith Turkmenistan set to join CITES, wildlife trade regulation in Central...
Turkmenistan is set to join the global wildlife trade convention as of January, in a move that could bolster conservation efforts in Central Asia. This makes Turkmenistan the 185th party to the...
View Article‘Trump is a disease’, says Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa
BOA VISTA, Brazil – This year alone, Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa was received by Pope Francis at the Vatican, was featured at a special place by Salgueiro Samba School during Rio de Janeiro’s...
View ArticleLand use change impacting seven planetary boundaries, solutions urgent, say...
Swift action must be taken to address human-caused land-system change and land degradation, which is now having wide ranging impacts on planetary health and human health, according to a first of its...
View ArticlePhotos: The lives and forests bound to Indonesia’s nickel dreams
EAST HALMAHERA, Indonesia — The dense forest near the village of Dodaga in the island district of East Halmahera means the world to Sumean Gebe, 42, who lives here with his wife and their two...
View ArticleClimate financing should come from oil and gas ‘super’ profits, study says
The international community is struggling to come up with enough funding to adequately address climate change, especially for developing countries that are impacted the most. At the latest climate...
View ArticleThe race to save the Fraser fir, a popular Christmas tree
North Carolina’s Fraser fir is a popular Christmas tree, but it’s under threat from disease and scientists are racing to try to save it. The post The race to save the Fraser fir, a popular Christmas...
View ArticleWolves in EU could lose safeguards, allowing culls as numbers soar
Karol Kalisky, Arolla Film, Slovakia The first snow of winter has fallen in Sansimion, a village in Romania’s eastern Carpathian mountains. Shepherd József Rácz and his sons keep 500 ewes up on the...
View ArticleNegotiators fail to reach an agreement on a plastic pollution treaty. Talks...
The negotiations in Busan, South Korea, were supposed to be the fifth and final round to produce the first legally binding treaty on plastics pollution, including in the oceans, by the end of 2024....
View ArticleKiller whales have found new homes in the Arctic Ocean, potentially reshaping...
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are finding a new place to roam in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean. Though Indigenous people in the region have seen the whales, also known as orcas, pop up sporadically...
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