For decades, a dominant argument for protecting forests has focused on carbon. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, store it in wood ...

Pharmaceuticals that people globally rely on for daily health — including antibiotics, antidepressants and painkillers — are entering ecosystems via wastewater, posing poorly understood risks. Once ...

When old mattresses and broken chairs are dumped by the roadside in his neighborhood, Erwinsyah faces a choice: leave them ...

In December 2024, Turkish customs officers were flummoxed when they discovered a malnourished baby gorilla in the cargo hold of an airplane flying from Nigeria to Bangkok, transiting via Istanbul.

The interlinked crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are slipping down political agendas just as geopolitical ...

This is the second of two stories about the potential impact of Cambodia’s planned Funan Techo Canal. Read part one, about ...

In Manchester this week, governments endorsed a report that tries to do something business has long resisted: treat ...

Indonesia’s steel industry is becoming one of the country’s fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, even as it ...

The U.S. repealed the endangerment finding, a bedrock environmental law that allowed the EPA to regulate greenhouse gasses as ...

A U.S. federal agency is considering allowing companies to lease more than 45.7 million hectares (113 million acres) of ...

The land is the greatest asset we have,” said Luzineth Pataxó, a Pataxó leader from the Caramuru-Paraguaçu Indigenous ...

Slimy, snake-shaped and yellow-brown, freshwater eels swim the rivers, estuaries and the coastal waters of Asia, Oceania, Europe, Africa and North America. Despite what their name says, these fish ...