The United Nations is preparing to host pivotal conferences in the coming months on two global crises: climate change and biodiversity loss. As experts have pointed out, these issues are fundamentally, inescapably intertwined. ...
Ecology
Sep 28, 2021
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A critically endangered giant barking deer has been spotted in Cambodia for the first time, in a boost for the country's wildlife preservation efforts, officials said Friday.
Ecology
Jun 25, 2021
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The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year, and four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging, drought and other causes, making ...
Ecology
Feb 26, 2021
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Intensified illegal logging and expansions of palm oil plantations and farms have destroyed rain forests on Indonesia's fourth-largest island, Sulawesi, threatening the biodiversity of a world-renowned laboratory of evolutionary ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2020
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A vast swath of a vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke.
Environment
Sep 13, 2020
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Colombia lost 159,000 hectares of forest—an area the size of Brazilian megacity Sao Paulo—to deforestation in 2019, according to an official report presented on Thursday.
Environment
Jul 10, 2020
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Mexico's forests this winter received 53% fewer monarch butterflies, a species that migrates south from Canada and the United States, according to figures published this week.
Ecology
Mar 16, 2020
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The Victorian Government is in breach of its own forest laws, allowing logging on steep slopes and putting lives at risk, according to researchers from The ANU.
Environment
Nov 21, 2019
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On a sunny day in early August 2019, screams broke the calm of a national park in East Africa. Researchers ran to find Kidman – an adult female chimpanzee—and her child being attacked by the dogs of poachers. In their ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2019
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Raging wildfires have drawn the world's attention to the Amazon but immolation is just one of the dangers facing the world's largest rain forest, environmental experts across the region say.
Environment
Aug 31, 2019
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