Nearly half of Indonesia’s peatlands are vulnerable to flooding due to degradation caused by unchecked exploitation, with 6 ...

Villagers in Cameroon have denounced the use of tear gas by authorities to break up their protest on March 25 against the ...

Brazil is facing an alarming surge in forest fires. Last year, the country registered 237,000 fires and over 30.8 million ...

Ancient Egypt’s feline gods, embroidered tigers on Chinese textiles, lions in Southern Africa’s San cave paintings and jaguars symbolizing military prowess in Mesoamerican cultures — all of them show ...

Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says ...

Global demand for lithium is expected to increase by nearly 500% over the next few decades, as countries invest more in ...

Banking on the capacity of global forests to continue storing huge amounts of carbon could put the Paris Agreement climate ...

Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, ...

Before, the seasons seemed etched into the calendar, with well-defined periods of drought and rain. Today, the climate has ...

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

Ofelia Opocué’s life has been shaped by loss, she says. Twenty-three years ago, the FARC gave her family an ultimatum: leave ...

Brazil's Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic ...