As a coal plant winds down, its gradual closure has had ripple effects in the community, including local businesses, like restaurants. A community group rallied around stopping a chemical recycling plant in Central Pennsylvania, saying it's not the answer to…

Senegal now faces a decision it’s faced before. In the mid-2000s, small-scale fishers there mobilized in opposition to a fishing agreement with the European Union that allowed in many dozens of EU industrial vessels to target various fish species. Under…

A wide strip of land cuts through the dense Amazon canopy in Peru’s Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve as shown by a photograph taken during a flyover on March 15, 2024. The images provide evidence of a clandestine landing strip in the…

From NPR Baobabs are sometimes called the “tree of life” with their thick trunks, crown of branches and flowers that only open at twilight. But theories about their geographic origin was divided among three places: the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa,…

From NPR Citing climate change, federal land managers are moving to end new leasing for coal in the country’s top producing region. (Image credit: Stephanie Joyce) Read the full article from NPR

When John Blake and Bette Loiselle arrived at Tiputini for the first time, they found exactly what they’d been looking for. For years, the two University of Florida professors had been working in Costa Rica, studying how resources — fruits…

For years, Indigenous communities living near Canada’s oil sands have worried about the health impacts of the cloud of air pollution rising from the vast industrial mining complex. A recent study shows the problem is far worse than previously thought,…

Four years of investigating jaguar parts trafficking rings in Latin America led Andrea Crosta to a grim realization: The same smugglers were often involved in a variety of illegal enterprises, including moving different kinds of wildlife products across national borders.…

From BBC Published15 minutes ago Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent The Dana squid has all the tools of…