In the Orinoco River Basin spanning Venezuela and Colombia, biodiversity and agriculture are at odds. Cattle ranching is one ...

In a landmark ruling in May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights affirmed the Indigenous Ogiek’s status as ...

In the late 1990s, swordfish had been so overfished in the North Atlantic Ocean that its population faced the possibility of ...

Authorities in Nepal say they’ll continue a translocation program to even out the distribution of rhinos in the popular ...

There have been three major sources of Brazilian immigrants in the twentieth century: the Northeast, where emigration offers ...

Bissau’s fringing shoreline along West Africa’s Atlantic coast, a protective green halo along the many bays and estuaries.

Encompassing some 2,700 square kilometers, Mau Forest is considered the most important water catchment in western Kenya, ...

Scientists agree that the biodiversity crisis we face today may be one of the most disruptive events in Earth’s history. The response so far has been for hundreds of billions in government and ...

Initial results from Harvard reveal high levels of mercury in the Madeira, although still below the limit recommended by ...

December 2009, Copenhagen, three in the morning. Tired of waiting for any official announcement from the COP15 presidency, a ...

In early October, work began on power lines that will run about 300 kilometers, or 190 miles, and that conservationists have ...

When created in 2006, the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area in the Brazilian Amazon was supposed to preserve the ...