Trained to stop poaching, Benin park rangers instead face jihadists
Northern Benin is fast becoming one of the most dangerous areas in the world for wildlife rangers: In late July, five rangers working for the conservation NGO African Parks were killed in an attack by...
View ArticleThe indelible traces of oil and gas in the Peruvian, Ecuadorian and Colombian...
Petroleum geologists explore for economically significant reservoirs of oil and gas using technologies that have evolved in sophistication as the industry grew to dominate the global economy in the...
View ArticleHow a fun women’s gathering led to small wildcat conservation in Peru’s Andes
Ida Auris Arango remembers the day in 2023 when she stumbled upon the Andean cat and its young on the mountainside. While shepherding her alpacas, she heard her dog barking and spotted the fog-gray...
View ArticleLogging done sustainably doesn’t have to harm ecosystem services, study finds
Researchers have found that low-intensity logging of a tropical forest has no negative impacts on key ecosystem services such as the carbon storage and food availability for wildlife. But even at a...
View ArticleAs southern African freshwater fish & fisheries struggle, collaboration is...
Scientists, communities and government officials from five African countries agree that the freshwater fish stocks in the Kavango and Zambezi River systems are in severe trouble. Delegates representing...
View ArticleThe biggest diamond in over a century is found in Botswana — a whopping 2,492...
The Botswana government says the huge 2,492-carat diamond is the second-biggest ever discovered in a mine. It’s the biggest diamond found since 1905. It weighs approximately half a kilogram. (Image...
View ArticleA lithium mine in Serbia could rev up Europe’s e-vehicles, but opposition is...
A proposed lithium mine in Serbia is spurring protests over its potential impact on the environment. The mineral is in high demand because it’s crucial for the batteries that run electric vehicles....
View ArticleTime to highlight South Asia’s less-studied vultures: Interview with Krishna...
KATHMANDU — The story of South Asia’s vultures has been a tragedy played out at warp speed, especially for griffon vultures, characterized by a slim head and long, slender neck, and belonging to the...
View ArticleChina accepts U.N. recommendations to improve environmental conflicts in...
It’s been a little over a decade since China launched its Belt and Road Initiative, a global program to improve relations with Latin America and other developing regions through trillions of dollars in...
View ArticleNepal’s buffalo-kills-tiger story reveals deeper pains in compensation system
KATHMANDU — Yes, you read the headline right: On Aug. 22, in a rare incident, a tethered domestic buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) killed an endangered Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) on the fringe of...
View ArticleBiodiversity’s Tower of Babel: The confusion & compromise of Convention on...
Underlying parables of biblical metaphors are often only dimly remembered. The name Babel comes from the Hebrew “to confuse,” בָּלַל (bālal). The tower so ridiculed was an affront to Yahweh. Fast...
View ArticleIn Palau, residents are divided on easing fishing restrictions
Palau made history a decade ago when it closed off 80% of its oceans to any kind of fishing. A proposal to open up some of its marine sanctuary to fishing has divided residents on how best to protect...
View ArticleIn Bali, water temple priests guide a sustainable rice production system
UBUD, Indonesia — Inside the small, open-air stone temple in the center of the Lotudunduh rice fields, a farmer wraps a sarong and sash around his mud-spattered work clothes. Suitably dressed in baju...
View ArticleMeet the little-known African tortoise with a hatchback for a shell
Evolution thought of everything long before we did. Take the case of the forest hinge-back tortoise (Kinixys erosa) found in the Congo Basin, as well as parts of West Africa and all the way east to...
View ArticleIndigenous communities sidelined for Suriname’s new carbon credit program,...
Local and Indigenous communities in Suriname are speaking out about a new carbon credit trading scheme that they say the government pushed through without consulting them. They’re worried they’ve been...
View ArticleWill we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of climate change
In the 2020 science-fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, author Kim Stanley Robinson imagines a near-future climate catastrophe in which a deadly heat dome stalls over India, killing millions of...
View ArticleHave Swiss scientists made a chocolate breakthrough?
Imogen Foulkes Imagine picking up a nice juicy apple – but instead of biting into it you keep the seeds and throw the rest away. That’s what chocolate producers have traditionally done with the cocoa...
View ArticleBudget constraints limit wildlife protection in major Nepali road project
NARAYANGHAT, Nepal — Amid the clatter of drills and honking trucks hauling cement, sand and concrete, vehicles large and small navigate muddy tracks and potholes on the Narayanghat-Butwal road, a vital...
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Why Mississippi coal is powering Georgia’s data centers
Last October, Georgia Power approached regulators with what it said was a crisis. Unless they did something soon, they discovered, the growing demand for electricity would outpace production sometime...
View ArticleIndonesia’s new ‘green’ capital drives environmental damage far and wide
JAKARTA — For the first time since it declared independence in 1945, Indonesia held its official national day celebrations outside Jakarta this year. Flag-raising ceremonies were observed...
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