As the Great Salt Lake dries up, it’s also emitting millions of tons of CO2
A new study found that the drying Great Salt Lake in Utah is now a major source of the gas emissions that are causing the climate to warm. (Image credit: Justin Sullivan)The post As the Great Salt Lake...
View ArticleSperm whale killed by ship in Strait of Gibraltar
An endangered sperm whale – nicknamed Julio by scientists – has been killed in a collision with a vessel in the busy Strait of Gibraltar. Researchers say this is the fifth sperm whale to die after...
View ArticleActivists ask for help combatting violence against Nicaragua’s Indigenous...
Increasing violence in northern Nicaragua this year has displaced rural families and led to calls for more drastic action from the international community, which activists say hasn’t done enough to...
View ArticleIn Sonora, communities fight mining to defend their water
Protesters in the northwest Mexican state of Sonora are blocking the country’s largest mining company, Grupo México, from withdrawing water, in an ongoing standoff against the company and state police....
View ArticleAre the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate
AMAZONAS, Brazil: Two researchers wearing long-sleeved shirts and pants to resist mosquitos, and high boots to block snake bites, gaze at a shattered tree. It lies on the ground garlanded in palm...
View ArticleChatterbox chimps converse just like humans (but with more gestures)
For more than 15 years, an international team of researchers intermittently followed five groups of eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the jungles of Uganda and Tanzania. With...
View ArticleShark fin consumption wanes in Thailand, yet demand persists, report shows
Consumption of shark fin has declined by more than one-third in Thailand since 2017, according to a new report from wildlife advocacy group WildAid. But with more than half of urban Thai citizens...
View ArticleAfter isolated tribes’ rare appearance in Peruvian Amazon, big questions...
As images of dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon sparked huge worldwide media coverage, questions remain about whether the government will finally...
View ArticleNew relatives of the cacao tree uncovered in old plant collections
Scientists have uncovered a surprising find from the Amazon Basin: three new species of plants closely related to Theobroma cacao, the tree that gives us chocolate. This finding, made by examining...
View ArticleDhaka international symposium gathers at the intersection of art & climate...
DHANGMARI, Bangladesh — In late May, elementary school children rushed up and down the worn footpaths between their homes in Dhangmari, giggling and showing off small clay sculptures. One girl held out...
View ArticleShooting of Philippine eagle renews calls to boost enforcement, wildlife...
MANILA — Calls for greater protection of threatened wildlife in the Philippines have intensified following the fatal shooting of a critically endangered Philippine eagle, the national bird, earlier...
View ArticleNepal’s railway rerouting plan to avoid Chitwan park sparks fiery backlash
KATHMANDU — On July 14, residents of Bharatpur town on the fringes of Chitwan National Park in Nepal set ablaze a vehicle they thought belonged to a railway survey team. The vehicle with a mounted...
View ArticleAdvocacy group links Uganda oil infrastructure to human-elephant conflict
Oil drilling by French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies is disturbing wildlife in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda’s largest and most-visited protected area. This is according to a briefing by...
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Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync
For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in Colorado to study the interactions between wildflowers and bumblebees. The pollinators buzz among fields...
View ArticleThe Inventory, a Wiki for wild tech: Interview with Jake Burton & Alex Rood
Figuring out what technology to use to monitor a species you’re studying? Or maybe you’re developing a new tech product for conservation and are in need of some help? There’s now a tech tool for that,...
View ArticleIt’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous...
For decades, scientists have been warning that the world is heading toward catastrophic scenarios due to climate change. But Ailton Krenak refuses to think about an apocalypse. On the contrary, he...
View ArticleIn Nepal, criticizing government conservation policies is becoming harder
KATHMANDU — When Nepal’s government approved a controversial measure at the start of the year to permit hydropower development inside protected areas, there was an uproar in the conservation community...
View ArticleA tribe once declared ‘extinct’ help reintroduce salmon to the Columbia River
NELSON, British Columbia — For thousands of years, the stretch of the Columbia River that passed through Kettle Falls, Washington, was so full of life that it was said you could cross it on the backs...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Park Fire is spawning its own smoke thunderclouds
With 600 square miles burned so far, the Park Fire is already one of California’s biggest wildfires ever — and it’s still far from contained. Driven by strong winds, the blaze has chewed through...
View ArticleTime for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy
As a young man, Djalma Moreira Lima used to walk throughout the rainforest to collect copal resin. He would wander around for hours looking for jatobás, Amazonian trees whose trunks secrete the sticky...
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