Global demand for lithium is expected to increase by nearly 500% over the next few decades, as countries invest more in ...

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Banking on the capacity of global forests to continue storing huge amounts of carbon could put the Paris Agreement climate ...

Rita grew up in a small village in Uttarakhand with mountains forming the backbone of her childhood. In a recent call with ...

Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says Orlando Quintero Gonzales, an agronomist in Colombia’s Eje Cafetero, or the ...

Brazil's Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic ...

Tokay geckos (Gekko gecko), named after their characteristic “to-kay” calls, are among the largest geckos in the world and ...

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

Microplastics are a growing ecological and human health crisis: Scientist have found the tiny plastic particles everywhere ...

Ofelia Opocué’s life has been shaped by loss, she says. Twenty-three years ago, the FARC gave her family an ultimatum: leave ...

In the early hours of Dec. 22, 2024, fishermen working in the Talara Sea in northern Peru hauled in their nets. But instead ...

Before, the seasons seemed etched into the calendar, with well-defined periods of drought and rain. Today, the climate has ...