Environment

As climate change wreaks increasingly devastating droughts, hurricanes and storms, preserving the world’s remaining large blocks of standing forest has become a matter of...

Rosalba Gomez says she remembers many fires throughout her childhood: bright orange flames feeding on the natural grasslands surrounding her community, engulfing homes, trees...

In a landmark ruling in May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights affirmed the Indigenous Ogiek’s status as ancestral owners of...

Scientists agree that the biodiversity crisis we face today may be one of the most disruptive events in Earth’s history. The response so far...

There have been three major sources of Brazilian immigrants in the twentieth century: the Northeast, where emigration offers one of the few realistic opportunities...

Residents of the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea are on a “green migration,” contributor Thibault Le Pivain reports for Mongabay.  The islanders are...

India is bracing for intense rainfall over the next few days as a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is set to intensify...

KATHMANDU — Authorities in Nepal say they’ll continue a translocation program to even out the distribution of rhinos in the popular Chitwan National Park,...

Encompassing some 2,700 square kilometers, Mau Forest is considered the most important water catchment in western Kenya, providing water to millions of people. But...

Engen is proud to announce the successful launch of a cutting-edge solar power system at its Engen Maths and Science School (EMSS) at Ganges...

MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed dedicating 1% of the military annual budgets of the world’s biggest economies to support reforestation of...

From water bottles and food wrappers to microplastic in the air, plastic and its chemical components are nearly impossible to avoid today. Researchers have...