In Brazil’s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve
Terra do Meio Ecological Station, a pristine reserve under federal protection, has suffered invasions amid efforts to open up an illegal road cutting through...
Q&A with Colombian Mining Minister Irene Vélez Torres
Illegal gold mining has long plagued Colombia’s ecosystems and communities, while small-scale miners have lamented the difficulties they face in formalizing their operations.Despite Colombia’s...
Indonesia to update conservation efforts for aquarium favorite cardinalfish
Indonesia’s fisheries ministry says it is working on a new conservation road map for Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni), a popular species in the aquarium...
Last of the reef netters: Decline of an Indigenous, sustainable salmon...
Reef net fishing is an ancient, sustainable salmon-harvesting technique created and perfected by the Lummi and other Coast Salish Indigenous people over a millennium.Rather...
Muslim women’s group to reopen oxygen homes if Indonesia wildfires intensify
In 2019, volunteers with the environmental wing of Indonesia’s largest Islamic women’s organization, ‘Aisyiyiah, operated “Rumah Oksigen,” homes equipped with air purifiers and first...
Engen, eThekwini Parks and local community partner to green South Durban
Engen has heeded the South Durban community’s call for assistance to help create safe spaces that are environmentally friendly.
In partnership with eThekwini Parks and...
Study reveals turtles’ millennia-old food affair with North African seagrass
Researchers have traced the 3,000-year-old “food footprints” of endangered green sea turtles around the Mediterranean.By comparing turtle bone samples from Bronze and Iron Age...
Why microbeads are such a threat and why they’re so hard...
Plastic is everywhere. It is used across a spectrum of applications from durable industrial equipment, household appliances to throw-away single-use items and even the...
Bonobos, the ‘hippy apes’, may not be as peaceful as once...
Bonobos have a reputation of being the hippies of the ape world, due to their propensity to “make love, not war.”But a new study...
