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Cucumber and bitter gourd plants climbed over bamboo trellises, their fruits swaying gently in the breeze, while Milan Tanchangya, a 43-year-old farmer, plucked the cucumbers using a knife and placed them in a basket. Only a few years ago, he…
Recent research has confirmed the first sighting of a dhole in more than two decades, a reddish-brown wild dog native to Asia. Before the sighting, the predator was believed to be extinct in Vietnam. The dhole (Cuon alpinus), historically one…
The northern gannet, a seabird that lives across the northern Atlantic Ocean, typically builds its nests from seaweed and other aquatic plants. But more recently, its nests have started to include plastic material fished from the ocean. Martin Brogger, a…
A First Nation in Canada’s subarctic Northwest Territories has received C$1.5 million ($1.1 million) in federal funding to explore for elements on its traditional lands. The Tłı̨chǫ own a 39,000-square-kilometer (15,000-square-mile) stretch of boreal forest and tundra. On March 3,…
Caroline Tracey’s book “Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History,” traces the history and decline of some of the world’s saline lakes, but also looks at how “queer ecology” can help us find our place in ephemeral environments. By Wyatt Myskow When…
The first patient arrived just over two years ago. January was supposed to be a slow month at Santa Rosa, a hospital nestled in the middle-class Pueblo Libre district of Lima, Peru. The sprawling metropolis of 10 million can feel…
Thousands of years ago, beasts of burden helped make humanity what it is today. When farmers first started putting down roots, they’d plant and tend their crops by hand. With the power of oxen, they could drag plows across their…
On Monday, President Trump’s Department of the Interior announced that it will refund almost $1 billion to a French multinational oil company. The company, TotalEnergies, had spent that amount during the Biden administration to secure two leases allowing it to…
Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance “The worst part of it was the smell,” says Audrey Crook, 58. A full-time carer who lives with her 20-year-old son, Crook woke up at…
The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is The fate of environmentalists is to spend their lives trying not to be proved…