Environment & Sustainability

The anteater pup’s gender is not yet known as it “prefers the safety of mum” for now, the zoo says.

South Korea will delay the shutdown of coal-fired plants, while the Philippines also plans to boost the output of its coal-burning plants Governments across Asia are ramping up their use of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, as they try to…

The project at Bolling Hall Museum will focus on Bradford-born astronomer Abraham Sharp.

Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump This country’s a dump. I don’t mean that metaphorically. I mean it literally. From the point of view of criminal waste gangs, it…

Indigenous leaders in Indonesia’s South Papua province have rejected a government plan to build a state-backed fishing settlement on their ancestral land, highlighting growing tensions between national development programs and customary land rights in the country’s easternmost island. Members of…

JAKARTA — As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran drives oil prices above $100 a barrel and disrupts global supply routes, Indonesia is once again confronting the costs of its dependence on fossil fuels — with growing calls not only to…

The people and policies that control how humans treat the natural world are increasingly dominated by a small class of elite political entities and corporations, argues our guest, political ecologist Bram Buscher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, on this…

ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot inserts biological research samples into a science freezer inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. ESA/Sophie Adenot Medical tests and microbiology topped the research schedule for the Expedition 74 crew aboard the…

Conservation has no shortage of ambitious policy. Marine protected areas now cover roughly 8% of the world’s oceans. Protected lands account for nearly a fifth of the planet’s terrestrial surface. Community forest concessions span millions of hectares across the tropics.…

From shutting off sprinklers to closing ski resorts, communities and business owners are adapting to parched conditions out West. Things could get much worse, experts say. By Kiley Price Officials were already sounding the alarm bells in early March across…