Inside Sierra Leone’s Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary (video)
The Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, located on the outskirts of Freetown, is a refuge for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone.Part of a network of sanctuaries...
Record-breaking seafood production must undergo a ‘blue transformation’: FAO
The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization released its latest “State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture” (SOFIA) report in late June. The flagship report, released...
New frontier for climate change & commodification, or conservation? (commentary)
After its Cold War, militaristic origins, space exploration became an arena for scientific inquiry where courageous people have pushed the bounds of science and...
Colorful new corals bedeck the busy waters off Hong Kong, study...
Scientists have found three new species of sun corals off Sung Kong and Waglan islands in the eastern waters of Hong Kong.The discovery of...
Scientists can fortify plants against heat stress as global temperatures rise
Rising global temperatures are posing a threat not only to people and wildlife but plants as well. The question of why many plants succumb...
Have your say on hydraulic fracturing
Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, has published for consultation the proposed regulations pertaining to the exploration and production of onshore...
Natural regeneration and women-led initiatives help drive Atlantic Forest Pact
Having restored 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of forest on Brazil’s coast, the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact plans to double this by 2025,...
Do MPAs really work? Tune into the MPA Day Webinar to...
The 1 August 2022 marks the second time MPA Day will be celebrated, with the importance of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) highlighted on a...
Amazon deforestation is off to the fastest start to a year...
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is off to the fastest start for the first half of any year since 2008 according to government data...
For women on Bangladesh’s coast, rising seas pose a reproductive health...
In coastal areas of Bangladesh, where poor families often can’t afford menstrual pads, women and adolescent girls are compelled to use cloth rags that...
Q&A with Indigenous leader José Gregorio Díaz Mirabal
José Gregorio Díaz Mirabal heads COICA, an association that represents the Indigenous peoples of all nine countries in the Amazon Basin.He says the persecution...
Return to agroforestry empowers women in Nepal
Although farmers traditionally practiced agroforestry in Nepal, they gave it up with the advent of the green revolution.A women’s group in Kavre district decided...
