Effort to save rare Colombian monkey looks to crowdfund its conservation
The nonprofit Fundación Proyecto Tití has conserved some 5,100 hectares (12,600 acres) of forest in Colombia, helping to reconnect forest fragments and secure more...
Jokowi focuses on El Niño as Indonesia’s dry season heats up
Indonesian President Joko Widodo warned officials to anticipate risks from the first El Niño since the 2015 Southeast Asia wildfires crisis.Dry season conditions had...
How plants know when they are touched
“It is quite surprising how finely sensitive plants cells are,” a scientist says.
We think of plants as insensate organisms, yet this perception is being...
Shifting from recycling to re-looping to fast-track the circular economy
As the world continues to transition from a linear to an increasingly circular business model it is time to update our perspective on recycling....
Public policies should consider the welfare of animals
It’s a mistake to ignore the effect of our public policies on wild and domestic animals.
Policymakers tend to consider a number of variables in...
Deep-sea expedition reveals rare octo-nurseries off Costa Rica
A scientific expedition in June found two new deep-sea octopus nurseries on two different low-temperature hydrothermal vent sites off the west coast of Costa...
Report links paper giant RGE to Indonesia deforestation despite pledges
A new investigative report alleges that the supply chain of one of the world’s largest producers of wood pulp and products, Royal Golden Eagle,...
Tested by COVID and war, an Indigenous conservation system in Ethiopia...
For more than 400 years, communities in the Guassa grasslands of Ethiopia’s central highlands have practiced a sustainable system for managing the area’s natural...
Using robots to flush out dengue-carrying mosquitoes from sewers
Creative interventions like this can help reduce incidents of the potentially deadly disease.
Dengue fever remains a serious threat to human health in warmer climates...
Bangladesh ramps up freshwater fish conservation in bid for food security
Bangladesh is reviving 39 native freshwater fish species through hatchery breeding, in an effort to secure stocks of commercially important fish.A quarter of the...
Ocean-based techniques and their carbon capture potential
Highly touted geoengineering tech can overshadow ocean-based carbon capture techniques. NOAA’s new report assesses their potential.
The business of carbon capture can be controversial among...
How we can protect nearly a third of the planet’s land...
Legislation is among the most influential tools, but it must hold individuals and companies accountable.
As the climate continues to change, its effects are exacerbated...
