Environment

Small-scale gold mining is the key driver of global mercury demand, according to a U.N. report on the highly toxic metal, with South America...

Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today.However, mountain gorilla habitat is not expanding,...

Electric vehicles are widely seen as an optimal solution to wean ourselves off fossil fuels in transportation. As we seek to decarbonize transportation and eliminate...

Whether it be environmental disaster or extractive development, often it’s the indigenous First Nation peoples around the world who are on the frontlines –...

A new app, developed in-house, has made documenting biodiversity easier and more efficient for the staff of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance in Papua New...

As science has increasingly shown the importance of conservation led by Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs), donors have begun to steer funding toward...

Conservationists arranged a complex operation to mate two jaguars living in two different parks in Argentina and to prepare their offspring for release into...

Blue sheep in Nepal’s Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve appear to be more wary of humans than those in a nearby conservation area where hunting isn’t...

In recent years, authorities in Vietnam have made a series of pledges to curb illegal wildlife trade and the sale and consumption of dog...

A new “atlas” reveals widespread illegal bottom trawling inside Mediterranean marine protected areas.The atlas, an interactive online map, shows thousands of days of apparent...

For the first time ever at a climate summit, the final text of this month’s COP27 included a “forests” section and a reference to...

The Indonesian government will still permit the construction of new coal-fired power plants, despite recently signing a $20 billion energy transition financing deal with...