Animal apocalypse: Deadly bird flu infects hundreds of species pole-to-pole
Brown skuas and south polar skuas, two gull-like species that nest in Antarctica, are sometimes called the “pirates of the Southern seas.” These migratory seabirds are fierce, competitive predators...
View ArticleOn Canada’s West Coast, clam gardening builds resilience among Indigenous youth
VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C., Canada — Three young men follow a winding trail through a lush spruce, hemlock and western cedar forest. Their destination is a clam garden they look after on Meares Island in...
View ArticleSmall steps towards larger goal of protecting East African wetlands
Three years into an ambitious wetland restoration project in East Africa, conservationist Julie Mulonga says she’s learned the value of small steps. The Source to Sea project set out to protect...
View ArticleHolistic care for an Ethiopian lake system: Interview with Redwan Mohammed
Ethiopia’s Abijata-Shalla Lakes National Park is set in a semiarid landscape of grassy plains, hills scattered with acacia trees, and ravines cut by seasonal streams. Spanning 887 square kilometers...
View ArticleRoyal Mint starts turning e-waste into gold
BBC/Kevin Church The company has built a large industrial plant on its site in Llantrisant in Wales to remove the precious metal from old circuit boards. The gold is initially being used to craft...
View ArticleSumatra community school hands down ancient knowledge to modern generation
MUARO JAMBI, Indonesia — Mbok Hawo picked a clutch of galangal, lemongrass and turmeric as the gaggle of schoolkids assembled by an array of potted plants, arranged in Hawo’s garden like bottles in a...
View ArticleHigh-resolution maps reveal surprises about how ice shelves melt
When Anna Wåhlin and her colleagues deployed a submersible vehicle to go under the ice in Antarctica, they meant for it to serve as a proof of concept for the technology. Instead, what they found has...
View ArticleBirdsong rings out once again in Togo’s sacred forest of Titiyo
KARÈ, Togo — Under the hot sun of an April afternoon in northern Togo, we made our way by motorcycle across the impoverished prefecture of Kozah. It wasn’t a long journey, about 30 minutes, but...
View Article400-year record heat threat to Great Barrier Reef
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg A study of samples taken from inside the bodies of centuries-old coral has revealed the threat climate change now poses to the Great Barrier Reef. Researchers in Australia say...
View ArticleClimate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later
The Fraser Valley is home to some of Canada’s most important agricultural land, but 100 years ago this region was a huge glacial lake and the center of the Semá:th people’s food system. “The lake...
View ArticlePeter Dykstra, award-winning environmental journalist, died at 67
Peter Dykstra dedicated his life to telling the untold stories of the environment. He did it in a way that was informative and clever but also funny, frequently pointing out the absurdities of the...
View ArticleIndonesia, EU reconcile forest data ahead of new rules on deforestation-free...
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is working on improving and synchronizing its forest and supply chain data to comply with increasingly strict sustainability standards and requirements in markets...
View ArticleCoalmine saga was epic mismanagement, says report
BBC Oversight of what was the UK’s largest opencast coalmine has been described as a case of “epic mismanagement” with “heart-rending” impacts for people affected. A Senedd committee warned of a...
View ArticleThe highly anticipated Perseid meteor shower is about to peak. Here’s how to...
The meteor shower creates an opportunity to sit outside at night and watch shooting stars. It’s also an opportunity for researchers to do some science. (Image credit: Ethan Miller)The post The highly...
View ArticleMining gold in the greenstone belt of Panamazonia
Greenstone belts are zones of metamorphic and volcanic rocks that occur within ancient (Archean) formations dominated by granite and gneiss. They are common to most of the cratons in the world and are...
View ArticleIn Brazil’s Pantanal, women find empowerment working with nature’s bounty
Deep in the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, where nature fights the intensifying impacts of climate change, women are also battling to make a living on their own, exploring what they’ve learned...
View ArticleIndonesia palm oil lobby pushes 1 million hectares of new Sulawesi plantations
GORONTALO, Indonesia — A palm oil industry body and a state-owned company are proposing a vast new palm oil plan encompassing around 1 million hectares (nearly 2.5 million acres) of new plantations...
View ArticleDisputed Manono lithium mining project in DRC sparks concern
LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo — In Manono, a town in the province of Tanganyika, in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Katanga region, a mining project has still...
View Article‘Polycrisis’ threatens planetary health; UN calls for innovative solutions
Environmental, technological and social challenges are colliding to create a global polycrisis. This confluence of issues is in turn placing increased pressure on the already existing environmental...
View ArticleScaling up the Amazon’s many bioeconomies requires investment in nature,...
Relentless climate change and biodiversity loss are pushing the world’s ecosystems to the brink of collapse. The planet may have already surpassed at least six of nine planetary boundaries crucial for...
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