Uterine implants and underwater ultrasounds aim to demystify shark births
For years, studying the reproductive biology of sharks has depended on capturing the animals and dissecting them.Scientists recently developed the Birth Alert Tag, an...
Q&A with Indigenous leader Júnior Hekurari Yanomami
Júnior Hekurari Yanomami is a leader of the Yanomami people in Roraima state, Brazil, where he founded an organization to aid his people after...
Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation...
In 2021, Cambodia's government began enforcing a ban on farming in designated conservation zones around the Tonle Sap wetland, moving to protect the health...
Logging permit threatens Quilombola bioeconomic ‘paradise’ in the Amazon
Loggers have entered the Trombetas River Biological Reserve in Oriximiná, in Brazil’s Pará state, to develop a forest management project that has divided the...
From nuisance to new green industry?
Since 2011, sargassum has worsened as a nuisance — possibly due to an influx of synthetic fertilizers into the Atlantic Ocean — with the...
Bangladesh tries fences to tackle growing human-tiger conflict in Sundarbans
About 300 people and 46 tigers have been killed since 2000 in human-tiger conflicts in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans.Authorities here have decided to install fencing along...
