Q&A with FieldKit developer Shah Selbe
Conservation technologist Shah Selbe’s plan to unveil his new environmental sensor platform FieldKit went awry because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent global...
Poverty-fueled deforestation threatens Kenya’s largest water catchment
Mau Forest is East Africa’s largest native montane forest and Kenya’s largest water catchment.Olpusimoru Forest Reserve is one of Mau Forest’s protected areas, but...
Niger Delta mangroves in ‘grave danger’ from oil spills, poverty, invasive...
Southern Nigeria’s vast Niger Delta boasts Africa’s most extensive mangrove forests — and some of the world’s largest fossil fuel reserves.Efforts to extract oil...
Sri Lankan researchers bring little-studied ‘flowerpot’ snake to light
Sri Lanka is home to 10 known species of blindsnakes, a family of soil-burrowing snakes so small that they’re often mistaken for earthworms.The most...
Q&A with Indigenous rights activist María Espinosa
Human rights defender Lina María Espinosa has been an outspoken critic of Ecuador’s push for increased mining and oil development. But her work has...
Nine out of 10 marine species could disappear by 2100, scientists...
The worst-case scenario in global warming could cause a mass die-off in marine species.
If the planet continues to warm at current rates, by the...
Traditional communities’ prize-winning coffee and cachaça at risk from Brazil mine
Brazil Iron’s mining operations in Bahia state have silted up springs and spread toxic dust across coffee and sugarcane fields belonging to traditional communities.The...
Encircled by plantations, a Sumatran Indigenous community abides changing times
Residents of the village of Talang Durian Cacar on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island are struggling to earn decent incomes from unproductive oil palm trees.Jakarta-based NGO...
The Socorro isopod: Endangered but important (commentary)
The Socorro isopod is an endangered crustacean endemic to the thermal water of a spring in the state of New Mexico.Its population is relegated...
New voyage checks in on Darwin’s species, nearly 200 years after...
On Sept. 12, 2021, French documentary maker Victor Rault set sail from Plymouth, England, aboard his sailing ship, the Captain Darwin.His goal is to...
How centuries of self-isolation turned Japan into one of the world’s...
Japan was self-sufficient in resources, energy and food and sustained a population of up to 30 million.
At the start of the 1600s, Japan’s rulers...
Sri Lanka fuel shortage takes massive toll on efforts to save...
Sri Lanka continues to face the brunt of the worst economic crisis in the country’s history, with depleted foreign reserves resulting in acute fuel...
