Ecosystems, species protection, forests and water.
56 articles
The climate crisis and biodiversity loss are two faces of one problem: in a warming world species shift, ecosystems lose their capacity to store carbon, and forest loss accelerates the warming in turn. This section covers forests and water, whether protected areas actually protect, long-term monitoring of species populations, and the law meant to hold it all together.
According to current Pesticide Action Network data, half of the world's approximately 860 million agricultural workers show symptoms of pesticide poisoning each year.
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Trees weakened by record summer heat could fall en masse in autumn storms expected to be triggered by El Niño, scientists warn.
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A mere 20-acre fire forcing thousands to evacuate shows how unchecked urban growth, combined with climate-driven drought, is shifting firefighting strategies toward 'neighborhood defense.'
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Pilot tests showed PFOS levels in treated water reaching 13 times the legal limit while the project's cost and environmental risks are being debated heavily in UK.
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What was initially recorded as a 5.2-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday morning was actually the sound of the Himalayas breaking apart.
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Declared functionally extinct on the mainland since 1963, the eastern quoll is making a comeback through breeding success in fenced sanctuaries. Australia's predator-proof sanctuary model could offer lessons for marten and weasel populations around the world.
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One of the most captivating moments from the gameplay video of GTA 6, eagerly awaited by millions of gamers and released on Netflix and later on YouTube, was Grassrivers. This wetland region, the real-life equivalent of the Everglades, is facing the devastating effects of the climate crisis
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The Supreme Court struck down the law in January 2025, but the full text of the ruling has still not been published. A Mongabay investigation based on freedom-of-information requests found the government approved 10 hydropower projects inside protected areas in the gap.
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