In a landmark ruling in May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights affirmed the Indigenous Ogiek’s status as ...

Scientists agree that the biodiversity crisis we face today may be one of the most disruptive events in Earth’s history. The response so far has been for hundreds of billions in government and ...

There have been three major sources of Brazilian immigrants in the twentieth century: the Northeast, where emigration offers ...

Authorities in Nepal say they’ll continue a translocation program to even out the distribution of rhinos in the popular ...

Encompassing some 2,700 square kilometers, Mau Forest is considered the most important water catchment in western Kenya, ...

Bissau’s fringing shoreline along West Africa’s Atlantic coast, a protective green halo along the many bays and estuaries.

Officials in Mexico said they’re considering allocating 1% of the military budget for a countrywide tree planting program, with the aim of restoring forests and combatting climate change. President ...

Initial results from Harvard reveal high levels of mercury in the Madeira, although still below the limit recommended by ...

December 2009, Copenhagen, three in the morning. Tired of waiting for any official announcement from the COP15 presidency, a ...

In early October, work began on power lines that will run about 300 kilometers, or 190 miles, and that conservationists have ...

When created in 2006, the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area in the Brazilian Amazon was supposed to preserve the ...

Corpus Christi is a city of 316,000 residents on Texas’s Coastal Bend, a rich marine area along the Gulf of Mexico. Located ...