From NPR Amid high temperatures and a pandemic, green spaces are a lifeline. But new data shows parks in low-income and nonwhite areas are smaller and more crowded than those in high-income and white areas. (Image credit: Johannes Eisele/AFP via…

From BBC Turning wild spaces into farmland and cities has created more opportunities for animal diseases to cross into humans, scientists have warned. Our transformation of the natural landscape drives out many wild animals, but favours species more likely to…

This story is a collaboration between La Nación and Mongabay Latam. It is the fourth installment of a five-part series on illegal deforestation for marijuana production in eastern Paraguay. Read the first, second, third  and fourth parts. SAN JOSÉ CRISTAL, Paraguay — On…

In the early 1990s, whale watching opportunities in Sri Lanka were few and far between as both opportunity and access were rare. Whale watching requires both whales and whale watchers, such as tourists, naturalists and so on, to be within…

Hundreds of dams are planned within global protected areas, a prospect that threatens people, plants and animals that rely on the lifegiving waters of free-flowing rivers. According to a first-of-its-kind global analysis published in the journal Conservation Letters, 509 dams,…

Environment Minister Ricardo Salles (left) in a July 28 meeting with Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina (center) and Economy Minister Paulo Guedes (second from right). Of the 195 environmental-related infralegal acts published by the government between March and May of this…

From BBC By Tom EdgingtonBBC News image copyrightReuters Nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate – taken from a ship off the coast of Beirut six years ago and then stored in a warehouse – has been blamed for the explosion…

NASA Landsat image of the island of New Guinea. The western half of the island in controlled by Indonesia, while the eastern half is the independent country of Papua New Guinea. New Guinea is the planet’s most floristically diverse island,…