Environment

An environmental impact study warns that a planned highway between the Senegal cities of Dakar and Saint Louis would lead to nearly 400,000 trees...

Earlier this year, the Gura Ferda forest in southwest Ethiopia was surveyed to assess its conservation potential.By some estimates, wet forests contain up to...

According to a new study, 1.1 million cattle were bought directly from protected areas and another 2.2 million spent at least a portion of...

Deforestation that’s associated with palm oil has fallen by 82% over the past decade in Indonesia, the world’s top producer of the commodity, according...

The Brazilian government has drawn up a new statute for Funai, the country’s Indigenous affairs agency, without the input of Indigenous peoples.Indigenous rights activists...

“The Sounds of Life” is a new book by University of British Columbia geography professor Karen Bakker that explores our understanding of nonhuman sound.Through...

The Ñembi Guasu Area of Conservation and Ecological Importance is the second-largest protected area in southern Bolivia’s Gran Chaco ecoregion, and an important area...

Project Mantis carries out research expeditions to the Amazon to record the often-overlooked fauna that emerge when night falls over the world’s largest rainforest.Its...

Mining in the shallow waters of the continental shelf is seen as more sustainable than deep-sea mining, but goes against global goals on sustainability...

Sri Lanka’s outdated laws on animal welfare are 115 years old and were introduced when the country was under the British yoke.With violence toward...

In 2022, the professional sporting group the Ocean Race launched a bid to establish the Universal Declaration of Ocean Rights (UDOR).The proposed legal structure...

Concrete has been dubbed the “most destructive material on earth” and for good reason. “By the time you are halfway through this article, the volume...