Pressure bears down around uncontacted tribes at the edge of Brazil’s arc of...
“They’re curious about us, and we’re curious about them.” That’s how Daniel Cangussu describes the recent interaction with a small Indigenous group that had just contacted non-Indigenous society in...
View ArticleChinese business in the Amazon generates controversy
In the last decade, the Pan Amazon has seen a substantial increase in the presence of Chinese companies, either as direct investors or as contractors building infrastructure for governments financed...
View ArticleIndonesia’s Indigenous Akit community faces exploitation & land loss...
For the Akit tribe of Bengkalis and Pelalawan districts in Riau province, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, land is more than just soil beneath their feet: it is their identity, their lifeblood,...
View ArticleWomen’s rights to forests and land remain weak in much of the Global South
A new report by the NGO Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) reviewed national laws and regulations across 35 countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa. It found that since RRI’s 2017 assessment,...
View ArticleAfrica’s last tropical glaciers are melting away along with local livelihoods
Africa’s remaining tropical glaciers are rapidly disappearing as greenhouse gas emissions drive global warming. In the Rwenzori Mountains, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the border between the...
View ArticleWhy earthquake predictions are usually wrong
1 day ago ShareSave Ana Faguy BBC News, Washington DC Christal Hayes BBC News, Los Angeles Max Matza BBC News, Seattle ShareSave Getty Images Brent Dmitruk calls himself an earthquake predictor. In...
View ArticleA park ranger took action 25 years ago. Now, 85 miles of the Escalante River...
A retired park ranger “battled” an invasive shrub taking over tributaries of the Colorado River. Now, 85 miles of the Escalante River have been restored. The post A park ranger took action 25 years...
View ArticleClimate change spikes wildfire risk in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO – Ella, one of Sri Lanka’s most popular tourist destinations, draws scores of foreign visitors who come to admire its natural beauty and marvel at engineering wonders like the famous...
View ArticleSurgically implanted tags offer rare insight into rehabilitated sea turtles
In 2021, the New England Aquarium in the U.S. state of Massachusetts began surgically implanting acoustic tags in rescued loggerhead sea turtles before returning them to the ocean. Four years on,...
View ArticleAmbitious conservation projects pave the way for Argentina’s jaguar recovery
Conservationists first spotted a young male jaguar in 2022 roaming Argentina’s Formosa Nature Reserve. Camera traps later recorded the same individual in a forest tens of kilometers away, within El...
View ArticleDrowned lands and poisoned waters threaten Peru’s campesinos and their livestock
Ever since the Upamayo Dam on Peru’s Lake Chinchaycocha was built in 1932, floods have become a frequent occurrence in the area for several months a year. From January to May, entire homes and...
View ArticleUnique two-clawed dinosaur discovered
7 hours ago ShareSave Tim Dodd Climate and science reporter ShareSave Artist’s impression by Masato Hattori A rare new species of two-clawed dinosaur has been discovered by scientists in Mongolia’s...
View ArticlePirates of the Pacific terrorize artisanal fishers on the Peruvian coast
It’s November, springtime in Cancas, a coastal community in northern Peru, and the sea is calm; it only gets rough at the beginning of summer, which in the Southern Hemisphere falls at the end of the...
View ArticlePhotos: Ethiopian farmers blend tradition, innovation to sustain...
KONSO, Ethiopia — As the first light of the morning sun breaks over the hills of Konso, Kawadaya Oldisha, 45, begins his daily routine of inspecting his terraced fields. His family’s small plot,...
View ArticleSecondary roads cause more deforestation than primary roads in tropical forests
The first roads that cut through rainforests are well-known conduits for deforestation. However, new research finds that secondary roads, those that branch off the primary road, cause far more forest...
View ArticleDavid Myers, conservationist and land broker for nature, dies at 73
There was something almost subversive about David Myers’s approach to conservation. He spoke the language of developers, negotiated like one, and sometimes even thought like one — but his ambitions...
View ArticleAs Australia’s ‘nature positive’ plans ring hollow, how will other nations...
The Australian government recently promised and then shelved its key environmental protection commitments, including the establishment of an environmental protection agency with legal authority to...
View ArticleWhat’s soil blocking? This seeding method helps gardeners use less plastic...
Soil blocking is an environmentally friendly method to prep seedlings. The technique has captured the attention of serious gardeners who’d like to make their growing more sustainable. (Image credit:...
View ArticleBeyond reforestation, let’s try ‘proforestation’
Edward Faison, an ecologist, stood quietly in a patch of forest that stretched for miles in all directions. Above him, the needles from white pine trees swayed — common in the Adirondack Forest...
View ArticleEV buyers who missed out on their tax credits now have a fix from the IRS
Some car owners couldn’t claim the EV tax credit for vehicles purchased in 2024 because dealers skipped a key sales reporting step. The IRS is now offering a fix. (Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty...
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