When Joko Widodo took office in 2014 as the president of Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, he was seen as a ...

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Bolivia’s newest protected area, Gran Manupare Integrated Management Natural Area, sprawls across an area a tenth the size of ...

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Far from being just a figure of speech, the existence of microplastics spread throughout the ocean is unequivocal for ...

There’s a theory about what happens when a big cat sets up shop in a forest, and it’s at the center of one of the biggest ...

Mauricio Martínez was convinced he was going to die. The year was 2021 and Martínez, gravely ill with COVID-19, struggled to ...

Joan Carling has made it her life’s mission to fight for the rights of her fellow Indigenous peoples. She has led anti-mining ...

Scientists have long surmised that birds migrate during winters to save energy. The reasoning has been pretty obvious: far ...

As global leaders, experts, activists and Indigenous voices meet this October in the Colombian city of Cali at the U.N.

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