biodiversity protection
Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream?
Two new coalitions of scientists, lawyers, philosophers and artists have joined the burgeoning global campaign for ecosystems and other species to have legal rights and even political representation.
Europe's butterflies are vanishing as small farms disappear
Industrial farms and abandoned ones are both bad for butterflies. Researchers in Spain are trying to combat the trend, one "micro-reserve" at a time.
Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation
Teaching Indigenous communities in the Amazon to use remote-monitoring technologies can reduce deforestation, a new study has found.
One way to save California salmon threatened by drought: Truck them to the mountains and back
The plan involves trucking a population of salmon past Shasta Dam to a cold mountain habitat in the McCloud River.
What it means to be wild
Investing 0.1% of global GDP could avoid breakdown of ecosystems, says UN report
The world needs to quadruple its annual investment in nature if the climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises are to be tackled by the middle of the century, according to a new UN report.