Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

On a rainy November day in 2024, Storm Sara, a slow-moving tropical cyclone, struck Honduras, claiming at least six lives and ...

Like many families in our community, we have always been keen observers of the local wildlife. Over the past year, however, ...

The U.S.-based Rainforest Action Network (RAN) used high-resolution satellite imagery to identify 6,368 acres of protected ...

To permanently protect 150 million acres of the Brazilian Amazon, Brazil established the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) ...

Emerging data highlight how forest destruction and fragmentation can encourage transmission of zoonotic diseases.

Using two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and fragmentation were among the strongest predictors ...

Expanding the ambit of organised crime by bringing in environment-related crimes such as illegal mining, deforestation, wildlife trafficking, hazardous waste dumping, etc., the state government ...

The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, ...