How 25 chinchillas could save a mountain
The success—or failure—of a Chilean chinchilla-relocation project will offer one test of how mining companies are responding to renewed government and investor pressure to account for conservation impacts.
The success—or failure—of a Chilean chinchilla-relocation project will offer one test of how mining companies are responding to renewed government and investor pressure to account for conservation impacts.
The COVID-10 pandemic boosted gold prices, which intensified a gold rush destroying Amazon’s Indigenous lands.
Mile upon mile of the rainforest has been replaced with a wide range of commercial developments. That’s why we chose it as the statistic of the decade.
Farmers worldwide say Monsanto’s policy of charging for every use of its genetically modified seeds violates their planting rights. But judges in these patent law cases aren’t so sure.
With the beef and charcoal industries on the rise, the future of the Chaco and its indigenous residents is looking less bright.
As an indigenous person, not working for a day means not eating for a day.
For 250 years, scientists have categorized the electric eel as a singular species, completely alone in its genus. That all changed this week.
An atmospheric scientist explains why the Amazon rainforest fires, though devastating, won’t suffocate life on Earth.
The Wari empire, an ancient Peruvian civilization that predated the Inca, made advances in agriculture, art, architecture, and warfare. They also drank a ton of beer.
It’s not every day that we discover a new species that looks like cthulhu is possessing the face of a fish. Luckily, today is one of those days. In fact, we found six—researchers from the Field Museum of Natural History announced a sextet of newly discovered tentacle-nosed catfish in the journal Zootaxa on Wednesday.