Students and scientists collaborate to maintain Navajo Nation forests

Students and scientists collaborate to maintain Navajo Nation forests

Surviving desert heat, alpine cold, and meager rainfall each year, two-needle pinyon pines (Pinus edulis) are the backbone of many forests in the southwestern...
Maker of Jeff Bezos’s yacht fined for using Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Maker of Jeff Bezos’s yacht fined for using Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Dutch prosecutors have fined the makers of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’s superyacht for its use of dubious Myanmar teak, in the latest instance of...
Colliding icebergs and chirping seals: Polar ocean sounds are reimagined in art-science collaboration

Colliding icebergs and chirping seals: Polar ocean sounds are reimagined in...

The frigid depths of the polar oceans exist only in the imagination for most people. Images of stark white ice fields and vast expanses...
As Thailand’s blue swimming crabs decline, crab banks offer a sustainable solution

As Thailand’s blue swimming crabs decline, crab banks offer a sustainable...

PHUM RIANG, Thailand — The sea is quiet except for the swish of the longtail boat cutting sharply through the waves. Fishermen Sutham Abmanee...
Henry the Nile croc is turning 124!

Henry the Nile croc is turning 124!

On Monday, 16 December, head to Crocworld Conservation Centre in Scottburgh for a party like no other! The centre’s most famous resident crocodile, Henry,...
EU votes to weaken protection for European wolves

EU votes to weaken protection for European wolves

Wolves across Europe are set to lose their “strictly protected” status. The move is seen as a win for farmers concerned about loss of...
Gaps in Peru’s peatland policies harm conservation and Indigenous Shipibo: Study

Gaps in Peru’s peatland policies harm conservation and Indigenous Shipibo: Study

Significant inconsistencies and gaps in governmental policies for peatland science and protection in Peru’s Imiría Regional Conservation Area have impacted the livelihoods of Indigenous...
Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Bolivian society was profoundly traumatized by the Chaco War and the loss of about thirty per...
Progress on rights complaint systems in Congo Basin but more needed, says group

Progress on rights complaint systems in Congo Basin but more needed,...

Conservation groups have made progress setting up complaints systems in protected areas in the Congo Basin, but there’s still a ways to go, the...
Pesticide exposure drives up rural women’s cancer risk in Brazil farming belt

Pesticide exposure drives up rural women’s cancer risk in Brazil farming...

Women farmers living in Brazil’s Paraná state run a 60% chance of developing breast cancer and a 220% increase in the risk of metastasis,...
Agroecology offers blueprint for resilient farming in northern Ghana

Agroecology offers blueprint for resilient farming in northern Ghana

Farmers in Ghana’s Upper East region traditionally decided when to plant and harvest their crops in rhythm with regular rainfall cycles. But the rains...
World’s top court starts hearing historic climate change case

World’s top court starts hearing historic climate change case

A group of small island nations led by Vanuatu is urging the world’s top court to hold the major greenhouse gas-emitting countries accountable for...