The child-killing wolves sparking panic in India
Getty Images Four-year-old Sandhya was sleeping outside her mud hut in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on the night of 17 August when a power cut plunged the village into darkness. “The wolves attacked...
View ArticleMining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest
STUNG TRENG, Cambodia — Rain poured down in torrential sheets as Ouk Mao guided reporters through the winding dirt tracks that were, in August, rutted with deep trenches of mud and rainwater as...
View ArticleHighways prevent pumas from reclaiming their eastern U.S. range: Study
Pumas are unlikely to recolonize much of their historical range in the eastern U.S., a new study finds. It’s not a lack of habitat or food keeping out the pumas, also known as cougars or mountain...
View ArticleDrought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water
One year after being hit by its worst drought ever recorded in the Amazon, Brazil is facing it all again. According to the National Center for Natural Disaster Monitoring, CEMADEN, the country is...
View ArticleAfrican environment ministers meet over pressing challenges
ABIDJAN — Environment ministers from across Africa are meeting in Côte d’Ivoire this week to discuss urgent challenges and strengthen ambition and action against land degradation, desertification and...
View ArticleThe ocean ‘belongs to all of us’: Interview with Palau President Whipps
Surangel S. Whipps Jr., president of the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau, wants more countries to join him in calling for a moratorium on deep-sea mining. This prospective industry, also called...
View ArticleFor Indonesian oil palm farmers, EU’s deforestation law is another top-down...
LUBOK PUSAKA, Indonesia — Jaharuddin, 50, sits deep in thought in his living room in Lubok Pusaka village, in Indonesia’s Aceh province, smoking a cigarette and staring out the door. On his porch,...
View ArticlePuffins increase on Farne Islands despite bird flu
Getty Images A puffin population has been declared “stable” following fears that bird flu might have had a more devastating effect. The first full count for five years on the Farne Islands off...
View ArticleEcotourism offers new hopes for Bhutanese youth — and local environments
Bhutan’s journey into tourism began in 1974, when the country opened its doors to package tourists, prioritizing sustainable growth and development. Today, with more than 70% forest cover safeguarded...
View ArticleIn Nepal, a humble edible fern is at heart of human-tiger conflict
KATHMANDU — Tightly coiled fern plants with a distinctive appearance emerge amid the sal tree undergrowth as the monsoon rains fall on Nepal’s fertile floodplains. Due to its resemblance to the violin...
View ArticleColombia voluntary biodiversity credit methodology is first to be approved
Cercarbono, a Colombia-based certifier of carbon projects, has approved a methodology that can be used to generate voluntary biodiversity credits, an emerging finance scheme aimed at supporting...
View ArticleRace against time on front line of Asian hornet battle
Getty Images Bee inspectors in the South East are battling to destroy Asian hornet nests before new queens hatch later this month. The Animal Plant Health Agency’s (APHA) bee team has already...
View ArticleThe future of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon
In January 2023, the federal government of the United States issued landmark decisions affecting two controversial projects to exploit mineral resources on public lands. One was an industrial-scale...
View ArticleScientists find unexpected biodiversity in an African river, thanks to eDNA
When Manuel Lopes-Lima set out to survey aquatic biodiversity on the Corubal River in 2022, he’d set his expectations very low. The river that straddles the West African nations of Guinea and...
View ArticleRecord number of Indigenous land titles granted in Peru via innovative...
In a defining moment for the rights of Indigenous peoples in Peru, 37 land titles were secured in the Amazon in record time, from June 2023 to May 2024. This is not only a remarkable land rights...
View ArticleStranded astronauts’ capsule to head home without them
NASA Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is set to begin its journey back to Earth – but the astronauts it was supposed to be carrying will stay behind on the International Space Station. The empty craft,...
View ArticleGlobal carbon capture and storage potential way overblown, study finds
A new study finds that the potential for carbon capture and storage is much more limited, by a factor of five or six, than the capacity projected by the United Nations to fight climate change. The...
View ArticleAmazon lakes overheat as record drought drives dolphin deaths
Severe drought and soaring temperatures are causing lakes and rivers in the Amazon to reach dangerously high temperatures, threatening species like the Amazon river dolphin, according to a recent...
View ArticleProposed Midwest carbon capture pipeline is stirring controversy
In recent years, there have been lots of proposals for new carbon dioxide pipelines tied to a technology called carbon capture and storage. It’s an effort to blunt the impact of climate change. A...
View ArticleWhich rural area will take the UK’s nuclear waste?
BBC A repeating tone – blip, blip, blip – is the audible reminder that we are in one of the most hazardous nuclear sites in the world: Sellafield. That sound – pulsing from speakers inside the...
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