Environment

HABARANA, Sri Lanka — As a four-day reggae, rock and hip hop music fiesta got underway Feb. 17, putting many wild animals inhabiting a...

Halting biodiversity loss is one of the great challenges of the 21st century, and if we want international conservation policies that work, we need...

A report released by the Liberian and Dutch affiliates of Friends of the Earth says the Maryland Oil Palm Plantation in Liberia is abusing...

Bangladesh has proposed designating a third Ramsar site in the country, but the current state of its two other important wetland ecosystems suggests such...

H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus carried generally by wild birds, has arrived in Latin America, causing unprecedented mortality in sea bird colonies...

A new decree intends to protect all of Brazil’s biomes and promote sustainable development in arguably one of the country’s most ambitious environmental policies...

In Chile’s Valparaíso region, artisanal fishers have created grassroots marine reserves to protect marine biodiversity.The areas are small, some of them just 15 hectares...

Once a bustling attraction, the Sicanang Mangrove Forest ecotourism project in North Sumatra is padlocked and falling into disrepair.Launched in 2019, the project was...

Tree planting is widely promoted as a solution to challenges ranging from climate change to biodiversity loss, desertification, and more.One less-appreciated benefit of growing...

Marine experts say the seismic activity in the Indian Ocean in the past few days likely pushed a pod of pilot whales onto Sri...

The U.K.’s Kew Gardens does far more than preserve and display 50,000 living and 7 million preserved specimens of the world’s plants; it also...

New research shows that building rope bridges over roads and buildings protects howler monkeys from needless deaths in Costa Rica.Breaks in the tree canopy...