In the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, most people have little idea their villages were at the centre of a multimillion-dollar carbon boom. Punctuated…
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Destruction of world’s pristine rainforests soared in 2022 despite Cop26 pledge
An area the size of Switzerland was cleared from Earth’s most pristine rainforests in 2022, despite promises by world leaders to halt their destruction, new…
View More Destruction of world’s pristine rainforests soared in 2022 despite Cop26 pledgeThe multinational companies that industrialised the Amazon rainforest
A handful of global giants dominate the industrialisation of the Amazon rainforest, extracting tens of billions of dollars of raw materials every year, according to…
View More The multinational companies that industrialised the Amazon rainforestBruno Pereira and Dom Phllips were killed in the Amazon. Their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the work
Three assassins walked into a bar deep in the Brazilian Amazon one night last October. Beers flowed, tongues loosened and the men were overheard bragging…
View More Bruno Pereira and Dom Phllips were killed in the Amazon. Their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the workGreat pretender: the bird with an Elvis-like quiff that can’t stop mimicking
In the dense forests of south India’s Western Ghats, you may be lucky enough to spot a greater racket-tailed drongo crooning to birds of other…
View More Great pretender: the bird with an Elvis-like quiff that can’t stop mimickingHarvesting human pee and DIY fertiliser: top conservation issues in 2023
What should people who care about conservation be paying attention to? Every year since 2009, scientists and conservationists from around the world have come together…
View More Harvesting human pee and DIY fertiliser: top conservation issues in 2023Sale of oil and gas permits casts shadow over world’s second-largest rainforest
“The forest will never end,” says Papa Mbembe as he treks through the swampy peatland of the rainforest behind his village in the Democratic Republic…
View More Sale of oil and gas permits casts shadow over world’s second-largest rainforestThe last hunt? Future in peril for ‘the unicorn of the sea’
Age Hammeken Danielsen has hunted narwhals since he was a child. He and his father would travel along Greenland’s fjords on a small motorboat, armed…
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