The Caribbean Basin is drowning in waste, especially plastic trash that’s contaminating rivers and the surrounding sea.

Criminal groups have made a renewed push into one of Guatemala’s largest rainforests this year. As new trails open up and ...

Major banks operating in Thailand and Vietnam aren’t doing enough to address the environmental and human rights consequences ...

Dario Mejía Montalvo, an Indigenous leader of the Zenu people of Colombia, recently stepped down from his role as president ...

When it comes to monitoring deforestation, tropical rainforests rightfully get the lion’s share of attention. However, as ...

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The number of individual birds found at the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve has dropped by half, according to a study published ...

Air pollution levels over Alberta’s tar sands are many times higher than industry-reported figures, according to researchers, ...

Senegal now faces a decision it’s faced before. In the mid-2000s, small-scale fishers there mobilized in opposition to a ...

Two hundred meters below the surface of the sea is a cold, faintly lit layer of water known as the mesopelagic, or twilight, ...

A wide strip of land cuts through the dense Amazon canopy in Peru’s Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve as shown by a photograph ...

Anita Sinakay grew up with her farmer parents saving seeds, a practice she continues now that she has her own farm. Today, Sinakay heads the Benguet Association of Seed Savers (BASS), a group of ...