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Scientists have discovered that octopuses possess a remarkable ability to detect and respond to microbial communities on the seafloor through touch alone, offering new insights into how marine animals interact with their microscopic environment. This groundbreaking research, published in the…
A new study exposes troubling gaps in Southeast Asia’s forest carbon offset programs, revealing how climate initiatives designed to protect forests are harming the Indigenous communities who have stewarded these lands for generations. The research, published in WIREs Climate Change,…
Peru's Interoceanic Highway devastates critical Amazon ecosystems while a new Chinese-backed mega-port threatens further destruction. Meanwhile, climate-driven wildfires reach unprecedented elevations in the American West, fundamentally altering snowpack melt patterns and threatening regional water supplies.
The conservation field is experiencing a troubling paradox: while passionate young scientists are eager to protect endangered species and ecosystems, most can’t find stable, sustainable careers in the field. Paul Barnes, who leads the Zoological Society of London’s EDGE of…
Utah becomes first state to legalize plug-in balcony solar panels for apartments as health groups petition EPA to stop crop antibiotic spraying over superbug fears. Plus: blood tests reveal widespread PFAS contamination and England's water companies raise billions through questionable green bonds.
Deep in Borneo’s vanishing rainforests, the Punan people have practiced traditional medicine for countless generations, treating ailments with remedies drawn from their natural pharmacy of trees, plants, and herbs. But this irreplaceable knowledge system—passed down orally through families—faces extinction as…
Gramma, a beloved Galápagos tortoise who recently died at the San Diego Zoo at an estimated 141 years old, lived through more than a century of dramatic environmental transformation. When she hatched on one of Darwin’s famous islands, tens of…
Devastating floods and landslides claim nearly 200 lives in Sri Lanka as a powerful cyclone strikes. Meanwhile, activists successfully disrupted coal exports at Australia's Port of Newcastle, and the Trump administration withdrew billions in promised clean energy investments from Appalachian coal communities.
A disturbing new trade is threatening Madagascar’s already critically endangered lemur populations. Research published in Conservation Letters reveals that nearly 13,000 lemurs are sold annually in the island nation’s cities, where these rare primates have become an urban delicacy served…
High in the misty highlands of Indonesia’s Flores Island, the Manggarai people are witnessing the disappearance of something precious: the words that have guided their sustainable farming practices for generations. As industrial monoculture farming replaces traditional agroforestry methods, an entire…
