As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on...
Between 1977 and the 1990s, the Kenyan government allocated thousands of hectares of land to salt mining companies along the country’s north coast.People had...
Hear that? Bioacoustics is having its moment, but the technology still...
The use of audio to study, monitor, detect and conserve species has gained popularity in recent years.Passive acoustic monitoring has been found to...
Are Bangladesh’s development measures leading to climate change readiness or maladaptation?...
Bangladesh is trying to mainstream climate change adaptation into development measures to address climate change vulnerability and challenges.However, the socio-economic context and environmental consequences...
Q&A with reforestation and land restoration visionary Tony Rinaudo
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a community-led approach to naturally restoring degraded landscapes and ecosystems, and it’s credited with reforesting many millions of...
Forest fires are getting worse, 20 years of data confirm
Fires are now causing an additional 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of tree cover loss per year than they did in 2001, according...
Endangered species listing of long-tailed macaques: ‘shocking, painful, predictable’ (commentary)
“Conservationists such as myself are in shock as it reflects the utter failure of the state of things if even the most opportunistic and...
Bad weather knocks down Brazil’s grain production as ‘exhaustively forewarned’
Brazil’s agricultural GDP declined by 8% in the first quarter of 2022 due to a severe drought in the country’s south caused by a...
Impunity shrouds killings of Indigenous Amazonian defenders
According to information collected by 11 environmental and human rights organizations, 58 Indigenous people were killed in the Brazilian, Colombian, Ecuadoran and Peruvian Amazon...
Study tracks global forest decline and expansion over six decades
Globally, there was a net loss of 817,000 square kilometers (315,000 square miles) in forest area between 1960 and 2019, according to a new...
An elusive lizard thought to live only in India makes an...
Researchers have confirmed the presence of the Sikkim grass lizard in eastern Nepal, nearly 100 kilometers from its known range in India’s Sikkim state.The...
An emerald-green hummingbird lost to science reemerges in Colombia
In the Santa Marta mountains of Colombia, an experienced bird-watcher unexpectedly spotted a Santa Marta sabrewing hummingbird.This was only the second time the critically...
Nearness to roads and palm oil mills a key factor in...
A new study in Indonesia’s palm oil capital of Riau has found that proximity to roads and processing mills are key factors determining whether...
