Rosalba Gomez says she remembers many fires throughout her childhood: bright orange flames feeding on the natural grasslands ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...