Dinosaur hunter stumbles across million-dollar find
3 hours ago Matthew Sherman The first stegosaurus skeleton to go under the hammer is set to fetch millions of dollars in New York. But the extraordinary discovery was made by chance, thousands of...
View ArticleScientists and farmers restore Aztec-era floating farms that house axolotls
It was the 1980s, and before sunrise, Basilio Rodríguez was ready to work. He was still young, and he’d already helped to prepare the land for crops, gathered harvests, pulled weeds and took care of...
View ArticleBottom trawling in U.K.’s marine reserves, legally, is apparently a thing
In 2023, commercial fishing vessels equipped with dredges and bottom-trawling gear spent more than 33,000 hours operating in the U.K.’s offshore marine protected areas, according to ocean advocacy...
View ArticleThai plan to relax fishing law stokes fear of return to IUU catches, worker...
BANGKOK — For six years, Prasert Sriwaurai was trapped at sea aboard a Thai trawler. He and his crewmates rarely sighted land, let alone spent time ashore. Denied medical care after an on-deck facial...
View ArticleVIDEO: To wipe or to wash? The use of toilet papers | Consumed
In many countries around the world, toilet paper is an essential in every bathroom. However, only around 30% of the world uses toilet paper, the rest mostly rely on water to clean up after using the...
View ArticlePeru approves the creation of long-awaited marine protected area
In April, after 10 years of negotiations, Peru’s Council of Ministers approved the creation of the Grau Tropical Sea National Reserve. To Peruvians, it is a much-awaited marine protected area, as it’s...
View ArticleWorld record broken for living thing with most DNA
49 minutes ago Helen Briggs, Environment Correspondent, BBC News, @hbriggs Pol Fernandez A fern has entered the record books for having more DNA than any other living thing. The plant’s genetic...
View ArticleMongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark...
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network where Karla Mendes is a fellow. SANTIAGO — The screening of a Mongabay video at Chile’s Supreme Court this month is...
View ArticlePoachers claim to have killed one-third of all Javan rhinos, Indonesian...
A staggering 26 Javan rhinos may have been killed in Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park since 2019, according to local law enforcement. Once roaming much of Southeast Asia, Javan rhinos (Rhinoceros...
View ArticleNarco activity takes heavy toll on Colombia’s protected forests, satellite...
In the middle of Colombia, where the country’s Eastern Plains and Andean ecoregions meet the Amazon Basin, a vast complex of parks, reserves and other protected areas safeguards ancient habitat and the...
View ArticleAlaska’s Arctic rivers turn rusty orange as permafrost thaws
Dozens of once-pristine rivers and streams in Alaska’s Brooks Range are turning an alarming shade of orange. The discoloration, according to a new study published in the journal Communications Earth...
View ArticleChina says its spacecraft lands on Moon’s far side
China says its uncrewed craft has successfully landed on the far side of the Moon – an unexplored place almost no-one tries to go. The Chang’e 6 touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin at 06:23...
View ArticleFear and hardship for the last community inside Chitwan, Nepal’s tiger central
MADI, Nepal — Surya Prasad Paudel, a lean 42-year-old with an aquiline nose, sunken eyes and gray facial hair, stands waveringly in front of his mud house with the sunlight bathing the straw thatched...
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Why this summer might bring the wildest weather yet
Summers keep getting hotter, and the consequences are impossible to miss: In the summer of 2023, the Northern Hemisphere experienced its hottest season in 2,000 years. Canada’s deadliest wildfires on...
View ArticleA Brazilian city restores its mangroves to protect against climate change
Red, white and black mangroves are tropical ecosystem trees that exist between sea and river, in a unique condition of brackish water — the halfway point between freshwater and saltwater. In this...
View ArticleIndigenous communities make clean energy drive work for, not against, them
The traditional territory of the Walpole Island First Nation in Canada covers a vast area of present southwestern Ontario and southeastern Michigan. Marshy deltas, tallgrass prairies and oak savannas...
View ArticleHow real action on environmental justice comes from Latin America’s community...
The Escazú Agreement was seen as a real breakthrough when it came into force in April 2021, and is the only binding treaty to have emerged from the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 2012....
View ArticleChina’s far-side Moon probe begins journey back with samples
China says its lunar probe has successfully taken off from the far side of the moon to begin its journey back to Earth carrying the first-ever samples collected from that region. State media says a...
View ArticleFishers left with no land, no fish, in fire sale of Cambodian coast
KOH KONG & PREAH SIHANOUK, Cambodia — By 11 a.m., the sun was already beating down on Daem Thkov. The chatter of tourists on the nearby beach floated on the gentle sea breeze through the fishing...
View ArticleAlaska’s Indigenous join hands with whale researchers as Arctic melts
For a few days each June, the saltwater wind that blows over the fairgrounds in Utqiagvik, Alaska mixes with the smell of coffee, salmonberry pie and fresh whale meat. The festivities start early and...
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