Healthy forests are more than climate shields; in the Amazon, they also serve as public-health infrastructure. A Communications Earth & Environment study spanning two decades across the biome links ...

In the dense, tropical rainforests of the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, an ancient predator drifts silently beneath the surface of still rivers. For Indigenous Agta elders, this reptile is not a ...

Officials say floodwaters that threatened a major town in eastern Punjab province have started receding, sparing its 700,000 ...

Eastern Pacific Ocean, thanks to a big increase in skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) catch, and stocks are considered healthy. So ...

The Indonesian government has allowed a controversial nickel mine to resume operating in the marine haven of Raja Ampat, ...

Beef production is a major driver of climate change. It fuels deforestation in crucial biomes, a significant source of carbon ...

The gorilla should have vanished. In the late 1980s, the mountain gorilla clung to survival in the misted borderlands of ...

Flooding disasters in Indonesia are increasingly traced not to natural causes, but to corporate destruction of peatlands, NGO ...

In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Congo Basin Institute in Cameroon to study African ebony, he soon realized the fate ...

Long celebrated by some NGOs and Indigenous rights activists as the guardians of the forest, the Batwa of South Kivu had ...

If you can imagine walking into a huge, 1,000-kilometer square [386-square-mile] tropical forest … it’s moist and damp [with] ...

Scientists studying the world’s largest river turtles, a South American species that grows to a length of nearly a meter, or 3 feet, have found the largest nesting aggregation ever recorded. Using ...