Senegal now faces a decision it’s faced before. In the mid-2000s, small-scale fishers there mobilized in opposition to a ...

The number of individual birds found at the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve has dropped by half, according to a study published ...

Air pollution levels over Alberta’s tar sands are many times higher than industry-reported figures, according to researchers, ...

A wide strip of land cuts through the dense Amazon canopy in Peru’s Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve as shown by a photograph ...

Four years of investigating jaguar parts trafficking rings in Latin America led Andrea Crosta to a grim realization: The same ...

Anita Sinakay grew up with her farmer parents saving seeds, a practice she continues now that she has her own farm. Today, Sinakay heads the Benguet Association of Seed Savers (BASS), a group of ...

Two hundred meters below the surface of the sea is a cold, faintly lit layer of water known as the mesopelagic, or twilight, ...

Violent crackdowns by Ecuadorian security forces on antimining protesters there have highlighted the outsize role that ...

Growers in Nigeria are suffering huge losses due to a disruption of farming seasons caused by unusual and extreme weather ...

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The time it takes to cross the Ayapel swamp, the largest swamp in the department of Córdoba, northern Colombia, is a good ...

In early March, a series of wildfires ravaged the savannas of Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the ...