From the air, the vivid lithium fields of Chile’s Atacama Desert look like an intricate computer circuit board, hinting at ...

Shafeeqa, a 40-year-old resident of Cherwan village in Ganderbal district, north of Srinagar in Kashmir Valley, remembers a ...

At a coffee meeting in 2007, Philippine environmental lawyer Rose Liza Eisma-Osorio and four other law professors in Cebu ...

Each November, a suffocating blanket of particulate matter envelops Pakistan’s Punjab province, turning the sky into a ...

For 20 years, researchers snorkeled through rivers across the southern U.S., feeling along muddy bottoms for mussels. Many of ...

Over the past century, humanity has invented a dizzying array of novel chemicals for industrial, commercial and domestic use.

Countries have approved negotiations on a global protocol to combat environmental crimes, including wildlife trafficking and ...

The discovery of five baby orangutans abandoned on a plantation in eastern India is highlighting the country’s growing role as a destination for trafficked apes. Experts say wealthy collectors, ...

One fire front lies in southwest Amazonas. The municipalities of Lábrea (262 hotspots detected) and Boca do Acre (189), 850 ...

Deep in the Liberian bush, there’s a dispute about what to do with a big swath of rainforest. The conservation group Wild ...

Lin Kuang-li’s tea plants blend in among the dozens of others that blanket this tea-producing village in Alishan, a mountain ...

In Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest regions, where a civil war has dragged on for 10 years, abundant sunshine has become a ...