Bees bring honey and hope to a forest reserve in Nigeria
YELWA, Nigeria — Nightfall at the Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve field station is clad in the whispers, chirps and trills of insect song. Flames from the burning wood in the fire pit pierce the darkness as...
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View ArticleWildfires are killing California's ancient giants. Can seedlings save the...
Extreme wildfires have destroyed about one-fifth of all giant sequoia trees. To safeguard their future, the National Park Service is planting seedlings that could better survive a hotter climate....
View ArticleIndonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says
JAKARTA — A massive nickel mining and processing project on the Indonesian island of Halmahera has cleared thousands of hectares of forest, forcefully displaced local people, and polluted the rivers...
View ArticleSkywalker gibbons confirmed in Myanmar for the first time
The morning song of gibbons, with its accelerating, bubbling crescendo, is arguably one of the most enthralling sounds of the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. For many, it’s a sound that signifies...
View ArticleHarsh dry season sours harvest prospects for Java coffee farmers
JEMBER, Indonesia — In good weather, Saturi’s coffee field here on a hillside on the east of Indonesia’s Java Island will produce around 2.5 metric tons of coffee beans over the course of a season....
View ArticleBiden’s new sanctions on Russia should include timber exports (commentary)
Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin has seemingly just had jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny assassinated. Navalny incarnated the best chance for democracy and human rights in Russia. He was a...
View ArticleNot waiting for the government, Myanmar’s Karen people register their own lands
Community land for most Indigenous Karen people in Myanmar is not subject to ownership — it is rather a source of their faith, a divine creator of which the Karen are solely the custodians. Despite...
View ArticleWhy firms are racing to produce green ammonia
Published2 hours ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images By Chris BaraniukTechnology of Business reporter In the 19th Century, Europeans realised what the Inca...
View Article'Ice bumps' reveal history of Antarctic melting
Published59 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, NASA/USGS/SPL By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmos Scientists say they now have a better idea of exactly...
View ArticleGills Aloud? Tiny fish found making very big noise
Published52 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Matt McGrathEnvironment...
View ArticleNorwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report
Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food security of the region, according to a report from the U.K.-based NGO Feedback. The analysis comes as the...
View ArticleDholes latest wild canids likely making comeback in Nepal, study shows
KATHMANDU — Until four decades ago, villagers in Nepal’s mountains would likely name Himalayan wolves as their primary concern among the wild animals native to their region. Lower down in the country’s...
View ArticleU.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say
As U.S. politicians, the oil industry and environmental activists debate the pros and cons of a massive expansion of the nation’s export infrastructure for liquified natural gas (LNG) — a fossil fuel...
View ArticleMaluku farmer turns guardian of eastern Indonesia’s threatened parrots
HALMAHERA, Indonesia — Most days, Jamal Adam watches over the 10 aviaries in Ake Tajawe Lolobata National Park with veterinarians and support staff. But during the holidays this past December, the...
View Article‘Shocking’ mortality of infant macaques points to dangers of oil palm...
For 12 years, primatologist Nadine Ruppert and her colleagues have had one recurring task on their calendar: tagging along with a group of southern pig-tailed macaques in Segari, Peninsular Malaysia,...
View ArticleWe’re losing species faster than we can find them, study shows
“We did it!” Doka Nason shouted as he stared at the screen of a camera trap in Papua New Guinea. He and his team had just captured a long-sought image: that of the black-naped pheasant-pigeon...
View ArticleEPA's newly tightened air pollution rules are welcome news in polluted places
Fresno, in San Joaquin Valley, has some of the worst air in the nation. Residents are getting a burst of hope that new, stricter rules on air pollution could help their health — eventually. The post...
View ArticleRewilding Ireland: ‘Undoing the damage’ from a history of deforestation
Rewilding advocate Eoghan Daltun was unsatisfied with life in Dublin, so he sold his property and bought a farm on the Beara Peninsula of southwestern Ireland. His plan was simple: remove the invasive...
View ArticleCatalonia's farmers demand more help over drought
Published19 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images By Guy HedgecoeBBC News, Barcelona The smell of barbecued artichokes wafts along a row of dozens of...
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