Indonesia’s 2025 fire season is spiraling into one of the worst in recent memory, with a sharp spike in hotspots and toxic haze already choking parts of Malaysia. Forest and peat fires, mostly caused ...

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In the shallows of Raja Ampat, Indonesia, a bold conservation experiment is underway—one that blends marine biology, local ...

In Eswatini, the Southern African country formerly known as Swaziland, people still commonly hunt for honey with the help of ...

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In their latest study, a group of researchers from Indonesia, the U.K., and the U.S. find that heath forests (locally known ...

The Indigenous Guard of the Nasa people formed in Colombia in 2001 to protect Indigenous territories from armed groups and from environmental destruction such as deforestation and illegal mining. In ...

When journalist Alan Weisman set out to write Hope Dies Last, he did so from a place of despair. Decades of reporting on ...

In the forested highlands of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, Mingay Dakias knows exactly where to find medicine — not in modern health clinics but in the leaves, roots and vines that grow ...

In a small town called Metetí, deep in Panama’s Darién province, Luis Gutiérrez manages La Reina, or “The Queen,” a cattle ...