The Andes are a key supplier of gold for the Amazon Basin
One of the most remarkable placer gold fields in the world is found in the Andean piedmont in the department of Madre de Dios in southern Peru. Gold was discovered in the 1970s in the District of...
View ArticlePetroperú’s financial troubles could mean no oil spill remediation,...
On Sept. 11, 2022, Olivia Bisa Tirko received a call from a forest guard who informed her of an oil spill in the territory of the Chapra Nation in the Peruvian Amazon. The North Peruvian Pipeline...
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This week on The Allegheny Front, many of us are feeling the heat this summer, and climate change is fueling the soaring temperatures. A new book tells the stories of people who are working to reduce...
View ArticleDeal ends environmental agents’ strike in Brazil, but grievances fester
A deal signed on Aug. 12 has ended an eight-month-long strike by environmental agents in Brazil, but doesn’t resolve their long-standing grievances over pay and work conditions. “The agreement was made...
View ArticleTo heal the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone, we have to look north to Midwest farms
There’s a massive area in the Gulf of Mexico that’s so low in oxygen, aquatic life can’t survive there. Many say it’s mainly from excessive fertilizer that runs off from Midwestern farms. The post To...
View ArticleRemote isles may solve mystery of ‘Snowball Earth’
UCL A remote cluster of Scottish islands could help solve one of our planet’s greatest mysteries, scientists say. The Garvellach islands off the west coast of Scotland are the best record of Earth...
View ArticleTo save wild crocodiles in Australia, scientists gave them food poisoning
Freshwater crocodiles die every year in Australia from eating poisonous cane toads that humans introduced to the continent. Now scientists have found a way to teach the crocs to avoid the toxic toads....
View ArticleWater treaty between Mexico and U.S. faces biggest test in 80 years
The water-sharing systems between Mexico and the U.S. are facing one of the biggest tests in their 80-year history after Mexico has fallen behind on billions of gallons of water deliveries. (Image...
View ArticleUK hopes military satellite can boost space power
SSTL The UK military is about to launch its first ever dedicated Earth-imaging satellite. Called Tyche, the washing machine-sized spacecraft will have sufficient resolution to identify battlefield...
View ArticleSri Lanka’s blue carbon ecosystems at risk as government seeks way out of...
MANNAR, Sri Lanka — It was a proposal by Sri Lanka that resulted in the United Nations deciding in 2022 to designate March 1 as World Seagrass Day. And earlier this year, the Indian Ocean island...
View ArticleAcre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought
RIO BRANCO, Brazil – Rosineide de Lima, a resident of the Panorama community in Rio Branco, in the state of Acre, faces a daily struggle for survival amid the severe drought that has hit Acre’s capital...
View ArticleA national park and its rangers in Bolivia endure persisting road...
In Bolivia’s Madidi National Park, the Andes and the Amazon meet. Their landscapes gaze upon each other, converge and embrace with the full force of their diverse and vast vegetation. This natural...
View ArticleHurricane Ernesto arrived way early. It’s an ominous sign.
After unleashing widespread flooding and knocking out electricity for half of Puerto Rico, this season’s third hurricane, Ernesto, has turned north, and is approaching Bermuda. In an average Atlantic...
View ArticleGirl discovers dinosaur footprints on beach walk
BBC When 10-year-old Tegan went for a summer holiday beach stroll with her mum, she had no idea they would be actually walking in the footsteps of dinosaurs. The schoolgirl spotted five enormous...
View ArticleHow one pop band is trying to turn concertgoers into climate activists
The multi-platinum-selling indie pop band is using research to inspire fans to take immediate action against climate change. (Image credit: Chloe Veltman)The post How one pop band is trying to turn...
View ArticleWhy the skies turned red over the UK this weekend
Peter Barrett / BBC Weather Watchers Smoke from wildfires across the Atlantic has brought spectacular vivid colours to sunsets and sunrises across the UK this weekend. Fires have blazed across North...
View ArticleBrian May argues for better farm hygiene to protect badgers
Getty Images Queen guitarist Sir Brian May believes that improving farm hygiene could help to provide a solution to the problem of bovine tuberculosis. May, 77, has been campaigning against badger...
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Recent Supreme Court decisions are already slowing climate progress
During its last session, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority dealt blow after blow to federal agencies’ authority to draft and enforce policies, including those aimed at mitigating climate...
View ArticleBrazil’s ‘Mothers of the Mangroves’ protect an ecological and cultural heritage
SÃO JOÃO DA PONTA, Brazil — On a sweltering morning, Ivone and Iza Farias load their handmade crabbing traps into their boat and set off along the Mocajuba River in the Amazonian mangroves of northern...
View Article‘Everything is a being’ for South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature
MPONDOLAND, South Africa — The day the prospectors came, so did the storm. It was 2007, and clouds barreled toward the coast, driven by a wind that churned up dust and foretold of the downpour to come....
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