On Lagson Gumbo’s side of the stream, BCA is a slum. Running parallel to the trickle of murky water is a narrow, dusty street ...

The Indonesian government’s revocation of 28 forestry, plantation and mining permits after the deadly Sumatra floods is ...

Pittsburgh-based Alcoa will pay the Australian government a settlement the company put at $36 million for “unlawfully” ...

The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly ...

New research suggests that compared to highly social animals, like lions, loosely social animals like squirrels are more vulnerable when their populations decline.

Officials in Argentina are considering a reform to the country’s glacier protection law, a change critics say would weaken environmental regulations and clear the way for expanded mining in some of ...

Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing ...

Despite hosting huge hydropower plants, Amazon people still pay high energy tariffs — so they found another way.

Ancient Peruvians used bird guano to fertilize maize and build a major civilization in the Chincha Valley in Peru.

Some parts of the rainforest in northwestern Ecuador used to be so dense and impenetrable that only a few hundred people were ...

Indigenous leader Fábio Titiah recalls the night he walked the trail to the village of Água Vermelha, in the ...

Indonesian scientists have attached a satellite tag onto an endangered pygmy blue whales for the first time by drone. The tag ...