Environment & Sustainability

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The California Senate has unanimously approved a resolution calling for a review of its imports of crude oil from the Amazon rainforest and an eventual phase-out, following years of advocacy from Indigenous leaders in South America. Environmental groups…

A year ago, deep in the heart of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, the lifeless body of Gaia, a jaguar known and loved by conservationists, was found charred by fire. Gaia had been monitored for years by Onçafari…

A growing number of oceans-based solutions to the climate crisis have been tried or devised in recent years, thanks largely to an influx of funding. These range from replanting lost mangroves, to modifying the genome of corals, to pumping nutrient-rich…

The president has made no secret of his distaste for wind and solar in America. Now he’s taking his fossil fuel agenda overseas.

A group of farmers, bikers, truckers and scientists from the political left and right are working to bring attention to the health risks of using toxic sludge as fertilizer An unlikely alliance of farmers, bikers, truckers, a detective and scientists…

Aerial footage shows thick plumes of smoke from wildfires raging in the northern Spanish region of Asturias. Wildfires have burned more than a million hectares (2.5m acres) of land in the European Union this year so far, the highest amount…

In the last year, Bangladesh has seen an about-turn from occupying forest land in the name of development activities such as constructing ecotourism parks, football academies, residential and training facilities for government officials. The recently canceled sum of about 3,830…

A professor teamed up with student musicians to inspire interest in data about the ‘catastrophic scale’ of the crisis A university professor has set her team’s research on the plight of Florida’s declining oyster population to music, aiming to inform…