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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Protecting vulture populations in Africa presents some unique challenges for conservationists. These slow-breeding and ecologically vital scavengers range over vast territories and are vulnerable to ...

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

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

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

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

The Amazon Rainforest is approaching a dangerous threshold. Scientists warn that continued deforestation could push the world ...

A radical new policy to relocate people living in a notoriously deforested national park on Sumatra has moved hundreds of families to date, with Indonesian officials presenting the controversial ...