The trafficking of animals from the Amazon is a growing global problem. For example, 95% of mammals smuggled from the ...

Discover how the very special apple snail uses its snorkel to survive in poorly oxygenated water and helps other aquatic animals too.

Brazil's president vetoed Friday parts of a congressional bill that sought to overhaul the country's environmental licensing rules — legislation pushed by the right-wing opposition but which ...

Humans have engineered climate change by manipulating the environment. There’s a hope that we may also be able to mitigate ...

In the West Papuan regency of Merauke, close to the border with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is rapidly clearing land ...

Members of the International Palm Society and Hawaii Island Palm Society are about to embark on an adventure from the ...

The push is part of a larger conservation effort led by UNEP. Its goal: to protect the fast-disappearing rainforests and peatlands of eight Congo Basin countries.

The Trump administration is moving to end two of NASA’s most advanced climate-monitoring missions — the Orbiting Carbon Observatories — which track carbon dioxide emissions and monitor global ...