Flooding worsened by climate change is forcing a community in South Sudan to work constantly to keep water from encroaching ...

The mood was equal parts celebratory and somber among the 300-odd Chagossians who came together at a community center in ...

The terras caídas phenomenon also threatens riverside communities in the Brazilian Amazon, with several incidents in recent ...

A major global forestry certification body is under scrutiny for endorsing one of Indonesia’s largest recent deforesters, ...

News about the poaching and smuggling of threatened species often centers on products like tiger bone, rhino horn or pangolin ...

In Liberia, a country where small-scale fishers number in the tens of thousands, fishers go missing at sea every year. Some, ...

Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare ...

Papua New Guinea’s rainforests, which span 28.2 million hectares (69.6 million acres), are among the most biodiverse in the ...

Two weeks after Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka, the actual environmental cost of the disaster remains largely unknown, as ...

Gyatso Bista remembers the sacks of kutki. As a child learning to become a healer in Nepal’s kingdom of Lo Manthang, Bista ...

A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern ...

Amid rounds of court hearings and the decision pending on a 2024 writ petition, Indigenous Singsa-Bhote community leaders of ...