Environment & Sustainability

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Chief Kokoi, defender of the Rupununi, died on October 12th

He was born where the forest gives way to the savannah, in the South Rupununi of Guyana, among horses, rivers, and the songs of the Wapichan people. From that landscape, Tony Rodney James—known to many as Chief Kokoi—drew the convictions…

New cluster of Tapanuli orangutans discovered in Sumatra peat swamp

CENTRAL TAPANULI, Indonesia — Since it was first described by scientists in 2017, the Tapanuli orangutan, one of the world’s rarest great apes, was believed to live only in the Batang Toru forest of Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. But new…

The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters

The unrest has been triggered, in part, by the targeting of environmental leaders whose work protects large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. By Katie Surma At least three people have been killed in Ecuador as the government further ramps up…

Vast freshwater reserves found beneath Atlantic seafloor

Scientists recently discovered vast freshwater reservoirs beneath the Atlantic seafloor, stretching off the U.S. East Coast from the states of New Jersey to Maine. The find was “a beautiful scientific accident,” Brandon Dugan, a professor of geophysics at the Colorado…