Environmental Protection
Bananas could soon be gone due to diseases and climate change
Several strains of a fungus are posing grave threats to the world’s banana plants. So are changing weather patterns.
Baltic Sea mystery: Where is the missing undersea data site?
Among the tools that European scientists use to understand climate change are the instruments of the Boknis Eck underwater observatory in the Baltic Sea, which measures methane in the seabed, water current flows and other data. Now the undersea installation
Keeping exotic reptiles as pets probably isn’t a good idea
Three-quarters of reptiles kept as exotic pets die within a year.
A new dam on the Mekong could cause a biodiversity crisis
If Cambodia decides to go ahead with the project, the nation might have to pay a high price.
Tigers are doomed if efforts to save them remain wanting
Cambodia's last wild tiger is dead. And so another chapter for tigers has come to a sad end.
Engulfed in plastic: life is at risk in the planet’s oceans
Just five countries dump more plastic waste into the seas than the rest of the world combined.