The Peruvian government is planning to expand the country’s prison system to address overcrowding and organized crime. But one of the facilities it wants to build poses serious risks to marine ...

Brazil ranks among the countries with the largest reserves of rare earth elements. But scaling up the extraction of these ...

Which tropical habitats are worthy of conservation? Humid forests, with their dazzling species counts, easily gain notice.

Australia’s veterinary medicine regulator has approved a vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia, one of the leading causes ...

In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest ...

Claims of a spike in elephant deaths in Sri Lanka this year — amplified by social media and public officials — don’t add up, ...

At least 60 wild iguanas have been captured, sold and exported from the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador under permits that shouldn’t have been recognized since Ecuador doesn’t allow the export of live ...

The Brazilian Pantanal is the world’s largest wetland and home to the highest density of jaguars anywhere. Thousands of ...

Since publishing my piece on optimism in conservation, I’ve heard from many who are finding it tough. I’m not an expert, but ...

Healthy forests are more than climate shields; in the Amazon, they also serve as public-health infrastructure. A Communications Earth & Environment study spanning two decades across the biome links ...

In the dense, tropical rainforests of the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, an ancient predator drifts silently beneath the surface of still rivers. For Indigenous Agta elders, this reptile is not a ...

Officials say floodwaters that threatened a major town in eastern Punjab province have started receding, sparing its 700,000 ...