Environment

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Behind the scenes of the Amazon’s gold rush: Director Richard Ladkani on the making of ‘Yanuni’

Austrian director and cinematographer Richard Ladkani knew little about the Amazon Rainforest before he decided to make a film about it. It was 2019. Fires raged across the Amazon. Ladkani had just fi...

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Climate Science Is Creeping Into Courtrooms - CO2 Coalition

by Charles Battig The inadequacies of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (Fourth Edition) extend far beyond the chapter on climate science you discuss in your editorial “ A Judicial Climate S...

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European Stoves Leaking Cancer-Causing Benzene

Benzene, a compound linked with leukemia and other blood cancers, is leaking from gas stoves in Europe, a new study finds.Read more on E360 →

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‘Staggering’ trade for belief-based use drives hooded vultures to near-extinction in Benin

The hooded vulture, a small, scruffy-looking raptor native to sub-Saharan Africa, gets its name from a patch of beige feathers on its head: It appears to be wearing a hood. Unlike other vulture specie...

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BlackRock CEO Abandons Climate Delusion for Investor Needs - CO2 Coalition

by Vijay Jayaraj BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has publicly shifted toward what he calls energy pragmatism, admitting that society now demands a balanced approach to meeting power needs rather than adheren...

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Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network

Amid rapid deforestation in Uganda’s Kalangala district, the School Food Forest Initiative launched a tree-planting project in school premises in 2019, aiming to instill knowledge and value for conser...

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325 Long-neglected migratory freshwater fish species need protection now: Report

CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil — In the wide, sandy stretches of Brazil’s Araguaia River, the piraíba, South America’s largest catfish, is a cornerstone of local fisheries. Fishers often recognize individual fi...

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Plenty of biodiversity data, but too few conservation answers

For decades, conservation has depended on a deceptively simple act: counting. Scientists tally birds along migration routes, measure forest cover from satellites, or track wildlife populations through...

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New farming method replaces traditional jhum in crowding Bangladesh hills

Cucumber and bitter gourd plants climbed over bamboo trellises, their fruits swaying gently in the breeze, while Milan Tanchangya, a 43-year-old farmer, plucked the cucumbers using a knife and placed ...

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Asian wild dog spotted in Vietnam for the first time in 20 years

Recent research has confirmed the first sighting of a dhole in more than two decades, a reddish-brown wild dog native to Asia. Before the sighting, the predator was believed to be extinct in Vietnam. ...

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Seabird nests built with plastic waste off the coast of Germany: Photo of the week

The northern gannet, a seabird that lives across the northern Atlantic Ocean, typically builds its nests from seaweed and other aquatic plants. But more recently, its nests have started to include pla...

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Canada invests $1m into mining exploration on Indigenous land

A First Nation in Canada’s subarctic Northwest Territories has received C$1.5 million ($1.1 million) in federal funding to explore for elements on its traditional lands. The Tłı̨chǫ own a 39,000-squar...

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As Sri Lankans choke on bad air, authorities cite transboundary pollution

COLOMBO — On certain days, Colombo’s skyline is barely visible. This is due to a thick haze that envelops Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, resulting in low air quality conditions. The fouled air is mak...

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Another legal challenge for TotalEnergies in South Africa

In August 2025, a South African court canceled an environmental authorization granted to French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies and its joint venture partner Shell to drill offshore exploration wells....

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Kenya marks World Meteorological Day amid dozens of flood fatalities

March 23 was world Meteorological Day, which celebrates the science of helping humanity understand and predict the weather. However, in eastern Kenya, the day came as families were mourning the deaths...

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Defying drought and invasives, a feisty Australian marsupial makes a comeback

The ampurta, a blond or brown guinea pig-sized marsupial, is distinctive for its short, fat tail that becomes a black mohawk at the tip. This micro-predator, also known as the crest-tailed mulgara, wa...

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Eastern monarch butterfly populations increase in 2025, but challenges remain

Monarch butterfly populations in North America have been in dramatic decline for several decades. But in a glimmer of hope for the iconic orange-and-black species, the 2025 population estimate was rou...

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Vietnam and Russia advance nuclear power deal as energy security concerns grow in Southeast Asia

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam and Russia signed a deal to build a nuclear power plant in Vietnam as the Southeast Asian country revives its nuclear plans with hopes of boosting energy security while c...

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Upemba National Park staff recount assault that left seven dead

When Christine Lain, the director of Upemba National Park, heard gunfire coming from the outer boundary of the park’s headquarters complex a little before 6 in the morning of March 3, her first though...

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On Manatee Appreciation Day, remember these gentle giants who protect aquatic ecosystems (commentary)

Along the warm waters of Mexico’s Caribbean coast lives a creature so gentle that sailors once mistook it for a mermaid. Slow-moving, peaceful and curious, manatees have glided through rivers and coas...

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