Environmental Protection
A giant bee, considered extinct, has just been rediscovered
The insect has a wingspan of over six centimeters and is the size of a man's thumb.
Crops are getting more diverse globally. But not on our plates
Farms are growing more similar, killing off the evolutionary diversity and uniqueness of local agriculture.
Climate change has driven a rodent extinct Down Under
A small mousey creature is no more in the wild on Bramble Cay, an isolated coral cay at the Great Barrier Reef.
Decades later, DDT is still a ‘silent’ killer
More than a half century after the seminal work "Silent Spring," DDT continues to take a toll.
Norway starts paying Indonesia to save tropical forests
“It is a big deal because it reflects the fact that Indonesia has turned (a corner)."
The ‘Ivory Queen’ gets jailed in Tanzania
Yang Fenglan, 69, stood accused of having smuggled almost 2 tons of ivory out of Africa between 2000 and 2014.