While much has been written about bitcoin, many people still find it a hard topic to comprehend, even as promoters like U.S.

Isangi, Lulingu, Mapendo and Ndjingala: these are the names of four Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri) that ...

JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on June 13, just six months after ...

I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned ...

Hundreds of firefighters backed up by aircraft were battling a wildfire burning out of control for the third day on the ...

For more than 12 years, the government of Viana municipality in Brazil’s Maranhão state dumped used needles and syringes into ...

At the world’s first global congress of Indigenous peoples and local communities from forest basins, representatives began ...

Nearly five months after Nepal’s Supreme Court struck down a law allowing infrastructure development inside protected areas, ...

Freddy Mbengue, a 24-year-old farmer in a black polo shirt and denim shorts, keeps a watchful eye on the forest. Mbengue is ...

Tyler Kartzinel likens protecting biodiversity to enhancing cellphone networks. His analogy is pretty straightforward: look for gaps in coverage, and then do what’s needed to fill them. “Engineers ...

Latin American cartels once were masters of the drug trade, but spikes in prices led them into controlling a new venture.

One of Switzerland’s glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country’s glaciers. Holes are emerging inside — a bit like Swiss cheese — seemingly caused by ...