Fossil fuel subsidies are the ‘worst energy policy in the world,’ researchers say
In an editorial in Science, U.S.-based energy policy experts Paasha Mahdavi and Michael Ross argue that governments creating consumer fossil…
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In an editorial in Science, U.S.-based energy policy experts Paasha Mahdavi and Michael Ross argue that governments creating consumer fossil…
Food conglomerate Mondelēz International, the owner of chocolate brands Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone and Oreo, has allegedly engaged in an exte…
Between 11 million and 16 million years ago, during the high sea levels of the middle Miocene period, the ancestors of the Indus River dolph…
Editor’s note: Last week, the description of a “new” cat species from Bolivia made headlines around the world. The tilcayo (Leopardus tilcay…
Zambia is investigating wildlife deaths and human exposure linked to an anthrax outbreak in the northern province of Muchinga, where several…
A public hearing this week by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will assess claims that the Peruvian state violated the rights of the…
BWINDI, Uganda (AP) — In the tangled greenery of a Ugandan national park, mountain gorillas sit among the leaves, calmly carrying on as tour…
A historic billion-dollar rainforest pledge can collapse if global donors fail to act by December.
Gorillas are among humans’ closest relatives, with a common ancestor dating back around 8 to 10 million years. Both species of gorilla alive…
POKHARA, Nepal — Before Binita Bishwokaarma understood Nepal’s property laws, she understood the work required to sustain a farm. Growing up…
Nearly two years after U.S. President Trump’s decision to dismantle international development agency USAID removed nearly $1 billion from gl…
When Paulo Ditzel first laid eyes on the bird, he knew he’d seen something special: a vibrant orange body with yellow and black wings and ta…
Human activities continue eroding the planet’s stability, resilience and life-support functions, the third edition of the Planetary Health C…
Here is the argument I want to make plainly, before anything else: the biodiversity credit market should stop trying to copy carbon’s trick …
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Communities living near Mount Ungaran in Indonesia’s Central Java province have slammed plans to revive a geothermal…
A mass of floating weeds at Chia Lagoon, Malawi’s largest, is choking out waterways and livelihoods as farmers and fishers struggle to acces…
MANILA — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. arrived at the Grand Hyatt Manila on Sept. 10 to address hundreds of foreign business rep…
Brazilian tin-producing company, White Solder, has been accused of acquiring a mineral illegally mined in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory…
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A reptile believed to be struggling in sand at a Southern California beach was simply making history: a sea …
A conservation park that Indigenous communities from the Malaysian state of Sarawak believed they could co-manage and self-govern has been t…
KATHMANDU — In September 2006, Nepal’s then Minister of Forests and Soil Conservation Gopal Rai and a contingent of conservation leaders fle…
The green transition is crucial to tackling climate change. But around the world, the same question keeps cropping up: who pays the price? I…
In the highlands above Villa de Arma, community leaders once walked through ice and snow. They still remember the stories told by their gran…
A new atlas of biodiversity of the Galápagos Islands highlights the unique evolutionary and ecological diversity of life in the famed archip…