Satellite data alerts help stop Africa forest cover loss: Study

Tree felling dropped by an average of 18 per cent in Africa relative to the average 2011–2016 levels

Huanglongbing: Curse of the yellow dragon

As it goes global, here is a primer on what exactly is Huanglongbing, a deadly disease affecting citrus trees

Saving a Caribbean Polly

Jon Paul Rodríguez, a Venezuelan naturalist, has been awarded the Whitley Fund for Nature’s gold award for his 30-year-long odyssey to save …

How small family farms are adapting to climate change in Brazil

Agroecology offers a production strategy that enables small farmers in northeastern Brazil’s semi-arid region to survive through droughts

IN PHOTOS: Indigenous protestors camp at Bolsonaro's doorstep as crucial native title case begins

A Brasilia court will hear a case on whether legal protection should be accorded to only those lands owned by native people in 1988

Major victory for indigenous groups in Ecuadorian Amazon

Chinese company pulls out of contract to drill for oil in remote rainforest after protests by indigenous groups

Amazonian wildlife: Collateral damage of the inferno

The fires that raged and are still raging in the Amazon rainforest, have had an impact on not just human lives but also animals

Brazil environmental disaster: 9 killed, 300 missing after dam near iron mine bursts

The accident happened at the Feijao mine in the southeastern state of Minas Gerias; it is the second such incident in the same state in 3 years

Amazonian dirt roads are choking Brazil's tropical streams

The fragile waterways—and the spectacular fish that live in them—are paying a high price

Gondwana ‘wellspring’ of mammalian evolution, not Laurasia: Research

Mammals evolved 50 million years earlier than thought in the southern supercontinent and migrated north from there

Venezuela’s isolated indigenous groups under siege from miners, disease and guerrillas

The Hoti, Yanomami and Piaroa, isolated indigenous groups in Venezuela, are under threat on several fronts

800 women still die in childbirth every day globally: Unicef report

The lowest coverage levels tend to be in the poorest countries where maternal mortality levels are highest, it says

Come together, non-profit tells international community, as Bolsonaro takes charge

Amazon Watch adds voice to Brazil’s national indigenous movement that is mounting resistance to the far-right politician

Eight avian species declared “extinct” in new study

The species, most of which are South American, are the first avian extinctions of the 21st century

'Three of us were killed last year, but we continue to protect our forests'

Guardians of the Amazon, a tribe in the forests sent this message to the Brazilian government to help them protect an uncontacted tribe and their …

Pod of rare orcas found dead on Chile beach

Type D orcas are native to the Southern Hemisphere. Scientists are unsure of the reasons behind the beaching

Brazilian scientists warn that the Pantanal is at risk of collapse

Once a model for sustainable land use, scientists alert world to “the tragedy of the commons” afflicting one of Earth’s most …

Don’t assume Pantanal’s jaguars are safe. Here is why

Down To Earth speaks with jaguar expert and conservation scientist Fernando Tortato about the road ahead for jaguars in their stronghold of the …

COVID-19 could complete the conquest of the Americas that started 500 years ago

By destroying Amazonia’s last uncontacted peoples, it will do what smallpox and others did in centuries past

Ecuador annuls austerity decree, restores fuel subsidy

Decree 833 will be replaced with a new one that contains mechanisms to focus resources on who needs it most, said President Lenín Moreno

After Amazon fires, Brazil now faces oil spill crisis

Mysterious oil slicks have spread across 2,000 kilometres of the country’s northern coast since September, contaminating beaches and …

Amazon fires declined in September, but deforestation persists: Amazon Watch

The outbreak of fires in the rainforest declined 19.6 per cent compared to the same period last year

Indigenous leaders flags Bolsonaro's team for UN talks

Its an attempt to provide legitimacy to the controversial policies of the government that caused much harm to the environment, especially the Amazon

Chile poised to grant rights to Nature; could become 2nd such country besides Ecuador

The plenary body of Chile’s Constitutional Convention formally approved the Rights of Nature within its proposed constitutional text March 25

Did ancient Americans settle in Polynesia? The evidence doesn’t stack up

Indigenous Americans have no history of open ocean voyaging. Similarly, there is no archaeological evidence of pre-Polynesian occupation on any …