Population cycles explain white-lipped peccary’s ups and downs, study shows
A new study attributes the regular disappearance of white-lipped peccaries in South America to natural population cycles.White-lipped peccaries are a keystone species and ecosystem...
Indigenous peoples and communities drive climate finance reform
At COP26, the United Nations climate conference in 2021, 22 philanthropies and governments pledged $1.7 billion to support Indigenous and community forest tenure as...
Climate damage from Bitcoin mining grew more than 125 times worse...
The negative climate impacts of mining the cryptocurrency Bitcoin have grown rapidly over time, with carbon emissions per coin multiplying 126 times from 2016...
Mangrove photo contest winners reveal majesty & diversity of coastal forests
From a grinning crocodile to human honey gatherers who make a living among the trees, the 8th annual Mangrove Photography Awards winners display a...
Animals play a vital role in restoring forests worldwide
When many people think of forests, they think of trees that serve a variety of crucial functions from acting as carbon sinks to providing...
Japan’s city of Aomori to try making electricity with snow
City officials, a local startup and University of Electro-Communications experts will run a winter pilot project to test their snow theory.
The Japanese city of...
Indigenous Knowledge guides the conservation of culturally important plants
The Karuk Tribe in northern California has traditionally managed plants for food, fiber, and medicine, but decades of fire suppression and climate change...
A Sri Lankan dragonfly flits back to life
Sri Lankan researchers have rediscovered an endemic dragonfly species that was last seen in 1970 and thought to be extinct.Macromia flinti was described more...
Indigenous communities in Peru ‘living in fear’ due to deforestation, drug...
Between 2021 and 2021 the territory of the Indigenous Kakataibo community of Puerto Nuevo lost 15% of its tree cover.Satellite data suggest forest loss...
Rare, critically endangered gecko making dramatic recovery in Caribbean
The Union Island gecko (Gonatodes daudini), known for its jewel-like markings, has seen its population grow from around 10,000 in 2018 to around 18,000...
Newcomer farmers in Brazil embrace bees, agroforestry and find success
New female farmers that are part of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) are embracing beekeeping and agroforestry on land that was previously unproductive and...
Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat
Rusnata was one of more than 150 Indonesian deckhands repatriated from the various vessels operated by China’s Dalian Ocean Fishing in 2020.Previous reporting by...
