Mysterious medieval cemetery unearthed in Wales
Published7 hours ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, BBC/Kevin Church By Rebecca Morelle and Alison Francis BBC News Science A rare, early medieval cemetery has been...
View Article2024 outlook for rainforests
Last week, Mongabay published a recap of the major trends in the world’s tropical rainforests for 2023. Here’s a glimpse into some of the key issues to monitor in 2024. Brazil The deforestation rate in...
View ArticleFinance and support are key to fishers adopting eco-friendly gear, study shows
JAKARTA — Small-scale fishers who have better access to financing, the support of a peer group, and a general awareness of environmental problems tend to be more likely to adopt eco-friendly fishing...
View ArticleIn Brazil’s Caatinga, adapted agroforests are producing food from dry lands
UAUÁ, Bahia, Brazil — Everything is growing in Perpétua’s grove now. “Can you see? This is avocado; over there, papaya. This year I already got acerola. We plant a little bit of everything here....
View ArticleSalmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients
Yukon River chinook salmon boast the longest freshwater migration in North America, traveling more than 3,000 kilometers (nearly 2,000 miles) from their spawning grounds in Canada to the mouth of the...
View ArticleForest carbon credits and the voluntary market: A solution or a distraction?
This is the first article in our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary market. Read Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five later this month. At the outset of 2023, the...
View ArticleCount, connect, conserve: Southern Africa elephant survey points the way...
In the more than 10 years since Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe signed a 2011 treaty to create the Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area – the world’s largest...
View ArticleBeyond the myths: Anthropologist Alison Richard on Madagascar’s environmental...
The island nation of Madagascar is celebrated for its extraordinary biodiversity, characterized by remarkably high rates of endemicism; approximately 90% of its wildlife is unique to the island, making...
View ArticleStorm Henk-hit farmers call for stronger river defences
Published1 hour ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images By Malcolm PriorBBC News rural affairs producer Flood-hit farmers are calling on the government to invest...
View ArticleSumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites
BATUTEGI FOREST, Indonesia — Like millions of small farmers across Indonesia, Sri Atmiatun’s family has shouldered higher fertilizer prices, cost-of-living hikes, and increasingly extreme weather in...
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In Juneau, Alaska, a carbon offset project that’s actually working
When Kira Roberts moved to Juneau, Alaska, last summer, she immediately noticed how the town of 31,000 changes when the cruise ships dock each morning. Thousands of people pour in, only to vanish by...
View ArticleExtreme drought in western Pará pushes family farmers into agroforestry
JURUTI, Pará — As we approach the airport in Santarém, Pará, astonishment echoes loudly throughout the plane as its passengers see the extent of the drought below. Through the tiny window, we see the...
View ArticleFalse claims of U.N. backing see Indigenous groups cede forest rights for...
Reporting for this story was supported by the Dom Phillips Grant of the Rainforest Journalism Fund in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center. IQUITOS, Peru — On the Peruvian side of the Yavarí River,...
View Article‘Indigenous’ and ‘local’ shouldn’t be conflated: Q&A with Indigenous leader...
DUBAI — It was Sara Olsvig’s love of ice that brought her to the desert of Dubai for the 2023 U.N. climate summit, COP28. As an Inuit child growing up in a village in Disko Bay, Greenland, Olsvig would...
View ArticleAs Sri Lanka floods swell with climate change, so does human-crocodile conflict
MATARA, Sri Lanka — Flying birds, running squirrels, hopping hares and snakes are species that frequent the tea estates in Akuressa in southern Sri Lanka. But an unusual heavy rustling and crawling...
View ArticleWho protects nature better: The state or communities? It’s complicated
What works better: protected areas managed by the state, or areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and local communities? More than 50 different researchers came together to try to settle this debate....
View Article‘No end in sight’ for potential of conservation tech: Q&A with Megan Owen
Early in her career, Megan Owen recalls, she often found herself wishing for more data to understand certain behavioral patterns in the animals she was studying. However, more often than not, she says,...
View ArticleNeptune and Uranus seen in true colours for first time
Published38 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent Our ideas of the colours of the planets Neptune and Uranus have been wrong, research led by...
View ArticleHundreds turn out for Northern Waterthrush in Heybridge
Published1 hour ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Simon Wood By Henry Godfrey-Evans and Shivani ChaudhariBBC News, Essex Hundreds of birdwatchers have turned out to get...
View ArticleConservation ‘setback’ looms as Nepal opens protected areas to hydropower...
KATHMANDU — The Nepali government has approved a controversial proposal allowing the construction of large-scale hydropower plants inside the country’s protected areas, in a move conservationists have...
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