Over the last few years, the Venezuelan government has taken a surprising interest in the environment. President Nicolás ...

The whale shark — a shark, not a whale — is the largest fish in the world, roughly the length of a city bus. Whale sharks ...

Capturing carbon to ship or funnel it offshore for storage in depleted marine oil and gas wells is gaining momentum as a ...

The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea ...

Indonesia’s courts have ordered plantation companies to pay more than 21 trillion rupiah ($1.3 billion), an amount 28 times ...

The Philippine government has rolled out a sweeping forest land reform that officials say will attract investment while ...

Corvus meaning ‘raven’ in Latin and splendens meaning ‘shining’ or ‘brilliance’ — is a fitting name for the strikingly ...

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Despite years of research into their complex behavior and intelligence, orangutans remain critically endangered on the ...

In Colombia, the construction of illegal roads continues to damage protected areas. In Chiribiquete National Park, 525 ...

A deadly heat wave in July that left people and wildlife struggling in Norway, Sweden and Finland was made at least 10 times ...

In the cathedral of ice beneath Antarctica’s frozen sea, male leopard seals conduct their solitary concerts. Day after day, sometimes for 13 hours straight, these predators plunge into the frigid ...