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There is no dispute the overheating climate is already causing loss and damage in the Arctic, but because Inuit in Canada technically live in a rich, developed country, they are ineligible to tap the funds to compensate them. But now, the Inuit Circumpolar Council is calling for change.

Asia Pacific is a hot spot for several looming risks with irreversible impacts, researchers say.

DHAKA — Experts point to habitat loss from a wide range of factors as the main reason the long-tailed macaque, one of the most widely distributed monkey species in the world, has gone extinct from Bangladesh. The mangrove forests of the southern district of Cox’s Bazar once constituted the northernmost reach of the species’ range […]

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Yesterday, Ecuador voted to halt all future oil drilling in a sensitive protected area known for its fragile rainforest ecosystem and isolated Indigenous communities. Millions of people participated in a nationwide referendum to determine whether crude oil should “remain in the subsoil” indefinitely at a site inside Yasuní National Park in Ecuador’s eastern Amazon. More […]

The president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council’s Canadian arm says Inuit want direct access to an international fund dedicated to addressing destruction caused by climate change. But is a national loss and damage fund needed instead?

In this paper, we deal with the interlinkages between extractive tourism, colonial conservation, and gross violation of human rights on the African continent,

The origin of the word blatherskite ~ bletherskate “foolish talk; foolish talker” is supposedly secure. The Oxford Etymologist investigates...

In October 2017, Antarctic science had its own #MeToo moment. Science magazine published a piece on allegations of abuse of female geoscientists in

Clean Food Group is developing a cultured palm oil alternative that doesn’t contribute to global deforestation or the destruction of orangutan habitat.