For decades, a dominant argument for protecting forests has focused on carbon. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, store it in wood ...

Pharmaceuticals that people globally rely on for daily health — including antibiotics, antidepressants and painkillers — are entering ecosystems via wastewater, posing poorly understood risks. Once ...

When old mattresses and broken chairs are dumped by the roadside in his neighborhood, Erwinsyah faces a choice: leave them ...

In December 2024, Turkish customs officers were flummoxed when they discovered a malnourished baby gorilla in the cargo hold of an airplane flying from Nigeria to Bangkok, transiting via Istanbul.

This is the second of two stories about the potential impact of Cambodia’s planned Funan Techo Canal. Read part one, about ...

In Manchester this week, governments endorsed a report that tries to do something business has long resisted: treat ...

For decades, the global fisheries conservation community has rightly focused on the health of fish stocks, the integrity of ...

Satellite imagery recorded more than 5,000 fire hotspots on peatlands across Indonesia in January, despite the fact that much of the country remains firmly in the grip of the rainy season. Independent ...

Indonesia’s steel industry is becoming one of the country’s fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, even as it ...

The U.S. repealed the endangerment finding, a bedrock environmental law that allowed the EPA to regulate greenhouse gasses as ...

The voluntary carbon market and the business of carbon offsetting have faced increasing criticism in recent years, not only for the systematic overestimation of emission reductions, but also because ...

A U.S. federal agency is considering allowing companies to lease more than 45.7 million hectares (113 million acres) of ...