In 1991, botanists Calaway Dodson and Alwyn Gentry advanced a striking proposition. Surveying a rapidly deforested ridge in western Ecuador, they suggested that dozens of plant species known only from ...
From high on a promontory in the Korannaberg Mountains, a mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae) peers down to the west ...
In the rugged mountains of the Dolpo region in western Nepal, Youngdung Jhama Lama spent her childhood herding nagton ...
NAIROBI — On Kenya’s eastern coast, a small-scale fisher lugs the day’s catch onto a table for processing and selling.
Earlier this month, Jeremy Hance’s “‘An epidemic of suffering’: Why are conservationists breaking down?” and the follow-up ...
The Mekong Delta of Vietnam ranks among the world’s three most climate-vulnerable regions. Known as Southeast Asia’s “rice ...
Environmental activists are sounding the alarm over a new trade agreement between the U.S. and Indonesia that they warn could ...
Amid rapid deforestation in Uganda’s Kalangala district, the School Food Forest Initiative launched a tree-planting project ...
Forest loss, along with climate change, is changing the resilience of the Amazon Rainforest. By disrupting the movement of ...
A palm oil company is ramping up its destruction of forests that are home to critically endangered orangutans in a UNESCO ...
In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained ...
The ampurta, a blond or brown guinea pig-sized marsupial, is distinctive for its short, fat tail that becomes a black mohawk ...