The island of New Guinea is famed for its eye-popping diversity of plants, animals and human cultures. Estimated to host ...

For years, Mikael Ane, an Indigenous farmer from the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia, has faced prison not for harming ...

Malawi registered a massive win in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Intelligence-driven operations culminated in ...

Hundreds of protesters, including young and Indigenous peoples from three coastal villages, have demanded the closure of sand ...

Sandhya Sekar never intended to lead a newsroom. Trained as an ecologist, with a Ph.D. in the sciences and a later pivot into ...

Tropical forest loss skyrocketed in 2024, with vast swaths of primary forest consumed by fire, according to new satellite ...

Macaúba palm, also known as macaw palm, grows all over the Americas. Now, a drive by the Brazilian government to incentivize ...

Judging by the last few summers, Rio de Janeiro’s residents should be preparing for the worst. On March 17, 2024, the ...

For the last several decades, global biodiversity has been in crisis. Yet, as we celebrate International Day for Biodiversity ...

Grassroots organizations are settling new areas in the Brazilian Amazon amid disappointment that President Luiz Inácio Lula ...

Plans to build a railway that would slice South America from east to west, crossing part of the Amazon Rainforest, are advancing with Chinese funding, according to a recent announcement by the ...

A special commission tasked with addressing land disputes and Indigenous rights in Chile delivered a historic final report to the president earlier this month, making a series of recommendations meant ...