Musk’s Starship rocket makes breakthrough ocean landing
9 minutes ago Jonathan Amos,Science correspondent, @BBCAmos REUTERS Elon Musk’s mammoth new rocket system has returned to Earth in a groundbreaking fourth test flight that culminated in a first-ever...
View ArticleWater is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible
JAKARTA — In 2015, Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper announced it would retire thousands of hectares of its commercial timber plantation in Sumatra, with the ultimate goal of restoring...
View ArticleMedia must help reduce conflict between tigers and people in the Sundarbans...
The Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, is a natural wonder that supports millions of people. It’s a shield against powerful storms and provides resources for countless families. But this...
View ArticleReport: Illegal fishing and labor abuse rampant in China’s Indian Ocean fleet
The Chinese distant-water fishing fleet is a formidable force. For one thing, it’s the largest in the world, with at least 2,500 vessels — but likely many more. These vessels, many of which are propped...
View ArticleWhy scientists are studying whales with a crossbow
Conservation scientists are studying the health of Antarctic whales using a custom-made crossbow. The researchers use the device to take remote biopsies from wild humpback whales in order to study the...
View ArticleNature groups launch legal bid over wildlife loss
39 minutes ago Malcolm Prior,BBC News, rural affairs correspondent Getty Images A coalition of more than 80 nature conservation groups is launching a legal bid to force whichever party is in power...
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Illinois legislature puts the brakes on a carbon capture boom
The Midwest’s largest potential reservoir to store carbon is buried deep under the farmland of Illinois, and the state’s lawmakers just hit the brakes on any plans for a carbon capture and storage boom...
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A rare celebration of Indigenous Pacific cultures underscores the cost of...
More than 2,000 people are gathering in Hawaiʻi this week and next for the 13th Festival of Pacific Island Arts and Culture. It’s the largest gathering of Indigenous Pacific peoples in the world. And...
View Article#AllEyesonPapua goes viral to highlight threat to Indigenous forests from...
JAKARTA — A campaign calling for the protection of Indigenous peoples’ customary forests in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua has gone viral, with the campaign’s poster shared nearly 3 million...
View ArticleBrazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay
On June 5, the Brazilian Federal Police launched a raid targeting the proponents of some of the largest carbon credit projects in the Brazilian Amazon. The Greenwashing Operation focuses on the group...
View ArticleActivists decry latest arrests of East African oil pipeline opponents
Police in northwestern Tanzania have arrested four villagers in Hanang District, after they criticized a controversial oil pipeline being built through the area, in what activists say is just the...
View ArticleJavan rhino poacher gets 12 years in record sentence for wildlife crime in...
A court in Indonesia has sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for poaching six critically endangered Javan rhinos, in what’s been hailed as the harshest punishment handed down for wildlife crime to...
View ArticleNasa ‘Earthrise’ astronaut dies at 90 in plane crash
50 minutes ago By Max Matza, BBC News Getty Images Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped one of the most famous photographs taken in outer space, has died at the age of 90. Officials say a small...
View ArticleBox turtles. Coral. These illegally trafficked animals still need a good home
When authorities find wildlife that are being illegally trafficked, at ports or airports, the animals are often in terrible shape. Sick, starved, distressed. A pilot project in Southern California aims...
View ArticleWho owns the Moon? A new space race means it could be up for grabs
25 minutes ago Getty Images We’re in the midst of a Moon rush. A growing number of countries and companies have the lunar surface in their sights in a race for resources and space dominance. So are we...
View ArticleCreating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life
Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the material for its low cost and disposability. (Image credit:...
View ArticleCrossbows and eerie silences – following Antarctic whales for climate change...
2 days ago By Victoria Gill, Science correspondent, BBC News, @vic_gill • Kate Stephens, Senior science producer Inside the bodies of humpback whales are clues about how climate change is transforming...
View ArticleIllegal wildlife trade is booming. What does that mean for the confiscated...
Wildlife trafficking is one of the largest and most profitable crime sectors in the world. The illegal trade estimated to be a multi-billion dollar industry. On a high level, that illegal trade causes...
View ArticleClimate change is deadly. Exactly how deadly? Depends who’s counting
Multiple federal and state government agencies count the number of deaths from extreme floods, wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes. They don’t always agree on which deaths should be counted. (Image...
View ArticleBlack days for black kites in Bangladesh’s growing capital city
Every dusk in the University of Dhaka campus, in Bangladesh’s busy capital city of Dhaka, the canopies of the taller trees like Gogon sirish (Albizia richardiana), or Raj koroi, trees shake as flocks...
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