The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out from the island since the…

JAKARTA — “Going to Dubai was an act of desperation,” says Muninggar, a 48-year-old former fish farmer from northern Java. “There were no jobs left in the village. If I wasn’t forced to, I wouldn’t have gone — my kids…

HUAY EE KHANG, Thailand — “Do you hear the birds calling?” asks Noraeri Thungmueangthong, as the vibrant trill of a blue-throated barbet rings through the pine trees looming up ahead. “That’s a sign we’re entering the sacred forest.” Noraeri is…

The world’s forests tell two stories at once. Even as chainsaws advance, new trees are rising in their wake. More than 11 million hectares of tropical moist forest—an area roughly the size of Cuba—were in some stage of natural regrowth between…

PAKAYAKU TERRITORY, Ecuador — Deep in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza province, Sacha Gayas spreads out a hand-drawn map across her wooden kitchen table. Her fingers, stained with the rich earth…

The European Union has dropped plans for another one-year delay to its anti-deforestation law, instead proposing a six-month grace period before enforcement begins. The proposal also introduces simplification measures and exemptions that favor EU nation states, the U.S., Canada, Australia…

Disaster data, revived by former NOAA scientists after federal tracking was cut, highlights the growing toll of climate-fueled disasters on American communities.

The Piedmont Environmental Council is exploring whether solar energy and agriculture can share the same land through agrivoltaics—an approach that could help Virginia meet its clean energy goals while preserving farmland.

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to auction oil and gas leases across millions of acres in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, reversing decades of protections for sensitive Arctic habitats.

Scientists have confirmed the first-ever discovery of mosquitoes in Iceland, a nation once too cold for the insects to survive.