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

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

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

Biologists have long known hornbills are supreme long-distance seed dispersers. The iconic forest birds are capable of ...

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

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

Funding from the New Zealand government is helping Indigenous farmers in Indonesian Borneo improve their livelihoods while ...

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

A major iron mining project in eastern Guinea may be at risk as its owner, the U.S. firm HPX, is reportedly running into ...

There’s a legend that says the hill of Cerro Pisaca — female — and the hill of Cerro Cango — male — had a bull as a son that, ...

Most of Venezuela’s shrimp farms sit on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, a brackish lagoon covering an area larger than ...

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