‘Ropeless’ consortium aims to end entanglements of declining North Atlantic right...
‘Fishermen, engineers, manufacturers, scientists and managers’ have come together to develop ropeless fishing gear to keep North Atlantic right whales from getting entangled.Only 451...
Australia opens vast swaths of famed marine parks to fishing
Australia is known for protecting its sea life in a 3.3 million square kilometer (1.3 million square mile) system of marine parks that cover...
U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil, say experts
In Brazil, large swathes of land are owned by the state, but can be legally claimed by small-scale farmers if they cultivate crops and...
AI can ‘help us move mountains’ for people and planet, Watson...
IBM Master Developer Neil Sahota believes artificial intelligence (AI) can help humanity ‘move mountains’ in terms of improving lives and the environment.Sahota helped develop...
In a land untouched by mines, indigenous holdouts fight a coal...
Smoothing the path to mining Officials and activists in Central Hulu Sungai said they believed they had set up all the necessary defenses...
Life is the bubbles in newly described deep-reef zone
Scientists have recently described a layer of the deep ocean zone as the “rariphotic,” calling it home to an array of unidentified reef fish...
Small section of controversial refinery wall in Indian ‘elephant corridor’ demolished
On March 13, officials tore down a 289-meter (948-foot) stretch of a 2.2-kilometer (1.4-mile) concrete wall built by an Indian oil refinery, allegedly blocking...
How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo...
In the leadup to the release of the second installment of Indonesia for Sale, our series examining the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land-rights crisis,...
The great Sandhill crane migration makes its annual stopover on the...
The annual migration undertaken by sandhill cranes in North America is considered one of the world’s great natural spectacles, on par with Africa’s wildebeest...
Q&A with marine biologist Amanda Vincent
For years marine biologists have been raising concerns about bottom trawling, a fishing technique that unintentionally scoops up non-targeted creatures as bycatch and disrupts...
Borneo’s elephants prefer degraded forests, a new study finds
New research has found that Bornean elephants most often use degraded forests with canopy heights topping out at around 13 meters (43 feet).Less than...
Indonesian graftbusters put a price tag on environmental crime
Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency, the KPK, has alleged huge losses incurred by the state as a result of illegal mining permits handed out by a...
