Cities worldwide use photo app technology to compete in nature observation...
The third-annual City Nature Challenge takes place this weekend, April 27-30, 2018, giving nature lovers in cities around the globe a chance to compete...
US urban areas are losing 36 million trees every year, study...
Forest Service researchers estimate that urban areas in the U.S. lost a collective total of 1 percent of their tree cover between 2009 and...
For the Caiçaras, environmental laws in Brazil at odds with tradition
The origin of the Caiçaras trace back to the early mixture of indigenous tribes, European settlers and African slaves in Brazil.For the last 300...
‘Monumental’ bust in Madagascar triggers effort to save thousands of endangered...
Authorities discovered 9,888 starving and dehydrated radiated tortoises in a vacant house in southwestern Madagascar on April 10.Since then, a team of organizations led...
Venezuelan gold strike prompts invasion by 3,000 miners, military raid
Venezuela is in the throes of an intense economic crisis, with people eager to earn money by any way possible. In 2017, rumors of...
Study puts a figure to hidden cost of community-company conflict in...
Two studies have revealed the extraordinary costs of social conflicts between local communities and palm oil firms in Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of...
In the Canary Islands, a good seed disperser is hard to...
Researchers have found that the bigger lizards of the Canary Islands are better seed dispersers than smaller ones.But habitat loss and invasive species have...
New species of superb bird-of-paradise has special dance moves
Until recently, researchers thought that the island of New Guinea was home to a single species of the superb bird-of-paradise, the bird with the...
Papuan chef Charles Toto serves up sustainability and environmental protection in...
Charles Toto is the founder of the Jungle Chef Community, a network of enthusiasts from across the Indonesian region of Papua who promote sustainable...
Restoring flagging oil palm plantations to forest may benefit clouded leopards,...
A team of biologists fitted four clouded leopards in the Kinabatangan region of Malaysian Borneo with satellite collars, and they gathered several months of...
China’s Belt and Road poised to transform the Earth, but at...
With its withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and its embrace of international trade tariffs, the Trump administration has pulled back from the U.S. commitment...
Indonesian oil palm smallholders sue state over subsidy to biofuel producers
A union of palm oil smallholders is challenging the allocation of a billion-dollar fund that they say fails to help them rejuvenate their low-yielding...
