1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (321+ words) More than 500 people have invaded Brazil’s Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land in recent weeks, opening illegal roads, setting deliberate fires and threatening federal agents. The area is home to the Igarapé Ipiaçava Indigenous people who live in voluntary isolation with no…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (885+ words) But the promise was short-lived. Jair Bolsonaro took office as Brazil’s president in January 2019, and immediately set his far-right agenda to work dismantling the country’s environmental frameworks and freezing the Amazon Fund’s contributions. The fund was created in 2008, with initial…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (778+ words) Across India, dozens of species of sharks and rays (collectively known as elasmobranchs) have been reported as inhabiting estuaries and rivers, but while species such as the bull shark are relatively well documented, many others are known from only a…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (404+ words) Indigenous land restitution in Chile came with a mixed bag of environmental outcomes and did not boost natural forest cover, according to a new study published in Nature Sustainability. “In the past, conservation advocates have at times adopted romanticized views…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1057+ words) RIOHACHA, Colombia — Amid the low slopes of a tropical dry forest, families from the Wiwa community of Gomke are building a new home. Their ancestral settlement lies higher on a lush mountain in the town of Dibulla, overlooking the Caribbean…...

6+ day, 38+ min ago   (816+ words) Scant economic opportunities and the resulting high level of poverty are common denominators across the four communities, according to Franklin Fogoná, a member of the Alto Playón community in charge of biodiversity monitoring. “There’s no demand for jobs,” he says....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1551+ words) Time and time again, however, the resilient residents of Guman-ri have figured out a way to soldier on. But their latest setback has stupefied them. In 2021, South Korean construction giant Ssangyong Engineering & Construction Co. began work to expand and repair…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1075+ words) Despite being much smaller than its neighbor, Bolivia recorded the second-highest tropical forest loss in the world in 2025, according to GNW. The organization reported that nearly one-eighth of the country’s forest cover has disappeared since the 1980s. The biodiverse Chiquitano forest…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (665+ words) KATHMANDU — Nepal’s long-held policy of harnessing hydroelectricity and using it for economic growth has met new challenges: potential catastrophic floods in the snow-fed rivers amid rising global temperatures. The Aug. 26 floods that originated on the Nepal-China border, and which knocked…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1467+ words) TENGJHIH HAMLET, Taiwan – Nestled high on a mountain slope in southern Taiwan, Tengjhih was a key settlement of the Bunun Indigenous people. Today, however, little remains but memories of the hamlet. Wild grass sprouts around abandoned houses. Stray dogs have…...