SAO PAULO — Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week…
Read more Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusationsHANOI, Vietnam — Indonesia is tightening state control over the world’s largest nickel supply after years of betting the metal would anchor a homegrown electric-vehicle industry, and just…
Read more Indonesia tightens control on nickel as the US and China scramble for mineralsConsumers say they want country-of-origin labelling on wood products sold in Australia, as more timber is shipped in from overseas. Timber imports have hit record levels, continuing to…
Read more With imports on the rise, why aren’t we told where our wood comes from?WASHINGTON — Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car.…
Read more Genetic analysis could speed up restoration of iconic American chestnut: ScientistsBELEM, Brazil — Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian countryside near the…
Read more In this Brazilian state, a new push to track cattle is key to slowing deforestationPORTLAND, Maine — Leaf-peeping season has arrived in the Northeast and beyond, but weeks of drought have muted this year’s autumn colors, and sent leaves fluttering to the…
Read more Drought mutes fall leaf-peeping seasonBOGOTA, Colombia — Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers…
Read more Amazon’s ‘flying rivers’ weaken, scientists warn of worsening droughtsAn Indonesian archipelago that’s home to three-fourths of Earth’s coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70% of the country’s plant life and an area along Angola’s…
Read more UNESCO designates 26 new biosphere reserves amid biodiversity challenges and climate changeWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Golden lion tamarins and Hoffman’s two-toed sloths have become unlikely roommates in a brand new habitat at the Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation…
Read more Golden lion tamarins and sloths become unlikely roommates at Palm Beach ZooFRESNO, Calif. — Firefighting crews tried to corral a fast-growing blaze churning through central California’s Sierra National Forest as forecasters warned Tuesday that lightning strikes from thunderstorms could…
Read more Firefighters try to corral California forest blaze as lightning strikes bring risk of new ignitionsThe U.S. Forest Service has been sending out crews to fight fires without the recommended masks for decades. Hannah Dreier, a New York Times investigative reporter, reveals the…
Read more Video: Why Wildfire Fighters Are Getting Dangerously SickHealthy natural systems can buffer communities from growing threats of climate change TAMPA, Fla., November 13, 2024 (Newswire.com) – As communities recover from back-to-back hurricanes – and as…
Read more As Florida Rebuilds From Devastating Hurricanes, Nature Offers Solutions for the FutureBAKERSVILLE, N.C. — Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Helene downed power lines and washed out roads all over North Carolina’s mountains, the constant din of a gas-powered generator…
Read more Volunteers bring solar power to Hurricane Helene’s disaster zoneIn one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, the remains of more than 430 victims have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest…
Read more Takeaways from AP’s report updating the cult massacre that claimed hundreds of lives in KenyaAn advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released photographs of a reclusive tribe’s members searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon, calling it evidence that…
Read more Group says photos of reclusive tribe on Peru beach show logging concessions are ‘dangerously close’BLANTYRE, Malawi — Soldiers, police officers and forest rangers continued to search Tuesday for a missing military plane carrying Malawi’s vice president, a former first lady and eight…
Read more Soldiers, police search for missing plane carrying Malawi vice presidentABUJA, Nigeria — Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, local officials said Sunday, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in…
Read more Nearly 300 abducted schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria freed after over two weeks in captivityTALLINN, Estonia — Christmas trees started appearing in Central Europe and the Baltic States, including Estonia, as early as the Middle Ages and have now become traditional across…
Read more AP PHOTOS: Estonia, one of the first countries to introduce Christmas trees, celebrates the holidayWEST END, N.C. — Jesse Wimberley burns the woods with neighbors. Using new tools to revive an old communal tradition, they set fire to wiregrasses and forest debris…
Read more A US pine species thrives when burnt. Southerners are rekindling a 'fire culture' to boost its rangeCASPAR BEACH, Calif. — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning…
Read more From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California's kelp forests show promise
