In a former conflict zone in Sri Lanka, a world rich...
The Jaffna Peninsula at the northern tip of Sri Lanka, off-limits for decades because of the country’s civil war, is home to one of...
Authorities and Yobin communities clash as deforestation spikes in Indian national...
Namdapha National Park is India’s third-largest national park and is home to thousands of species, including tigers, clouded leopards and an endemic species of...
Water scarcity will become more common in the northern hemisphere
Water resources will fluctuate increasingly and become more difficult to predict in snow-dominated regions.
Record temperatures during heatwaves in Europe have caused water shortages in...
Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders
The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) demanded urgent action to stop attacks against Indigenous peoples, environmentalists and communities in a July 14...
Climate impacts to disproportionately hurt tropical fishers, farmers
The majority of 72 coastal communities studied in five countries in the Indo-Pacific region may face significant losses of agricultural and fisheries products —...
Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm
A significant portion of orangutan habitat in Indonesia lies within corporate concessions, but industrial tree companies, like pulp and paper, don’t have strong enough...
Overexploitation threatens Amazon fisheries with collapse, study warns
Fishers in the Amazon Basin are catching smaller species of fish than before, indicating overexploitation of the region’s aquatic biodiversity, a new study says.The...
Young Māori divers hunt invasive crown-of-thorns starfish to save coral reefs
The island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands is experiencing an outbreak of crown-of-thorns-starfish (taramea, Acanthaster planci), which could jeopardize the survival of its...
Urban gardens in the tropics can support embattled bees
Urban agriculture can promote bee communities if managed in a sustainable manner.
Urban gardens can do a world of good by saving endangered plants and...
With plantation takeover, Brazil’s Indigenous Pataxó move to reclaim their land
On June 22, a group of nearly 200 Indigenous Pataxó people occupied a eucalyptus plantation inside their demarcated territory in Brazil’s Bahia state, setting...
$245-million initiative to create and maintain protected areas in Colombia
Heritage Colombia is a $245-million initiative to support the creation, expansion and improvement of 32 million hectares (nearly 80 million acres) of protected land...
In world convulsed by climate-driven conflict, are peace parks an answer?
Conflicts over disputed borders, often driven or exacerbated by climate change, are putting some of the world’s key biodiversity hotspots at risk.Even in countries...
