Environment

The Nigerian Army destroyed 40 illegal refineries and arrested 21 people in a continued clampdown against oil theft in the...

Guatemalan authorities charged current and former high-ranking officials involved with one of the largest nickel mines in...

A London court convicted two former directors of a green investment scheme, finding them guilty of cheating investors out of...

With the elephant population growing out of control in parts of southern Africa, several countries in the region agreed at a...

Spanish and French fishing vessels were found to have been illegally fishing in the exclusive economic zones of Somalia,...

China’s rosewood imports from Mali, one of its leading rosewood suppliers, have led to the devastation of Malian forests and...

Poachers have since January killed 106 rhinos in the South African KwaZulu-Natal province, surpassing numbers for the whole...

Non-governmental organizations dedicated to the protection of wildlife and the environment welcomed the new guidelines that...

Initially, museum administrators said that only a few worthless objects had been lost. Then, in an earlier investigation,...

Soybean farming, cattle ranching, and land grabs for profit are threatening one of the world’s richest savannas, Brazil’s...

Tropical rainforests – which are vitally important for carbon storage and biodiversity – are disappearing at a rate of...

Illegal gold mining – often led and by organized criminal groups – is having a devastating effect on both ecology and local...