The Arctic is dotted with millions of lakes that sit on persistently frozen soil called permafrost. These lakes are crucial ...

In Peru’s high Andes, water security is under threat as glaciers retreat and changing weather patterns threaten natural reservoirs. At 3,200 meters (10,500 feet) altitude, in the community of Villa de ...

In Australia in May 2026, Yang Zeng, a 28-year-old Chinese national who was unlawfully in the country, was sentenced to two ...

Plump, fuzzy and venomous, with wide eyes, a button nose and sharp teeth, northern pygmy slow lorises were thought to reside ...

In the high Andes of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, you can still find the vicuña, a shy, elusive camelid, revered by ...

The Brazilian government has created four new sustainable development reserves in the Amazon as part of an effort to mitigate ...

President Claudia Sheinbaum this month presented a draft fiscal budget for 2027, outlining the national government’s plans ...

As fires continue to engulf large swaths of forest in Indonesian Borneo, orangutans have increasingly fewer places to flee, with fires either surrounding them or eliminating the forest on which they ...

After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around. Online voting began Tuesday for Fat Bear Week, the annual contest that pits the ...

On the Northern California coast, where the tall trees meet the sea, ancestors of the Coast Yuki people lie buried in an old village site above the bluffs in the U.S. state. Yet despite its cultural ...

Cigarette butts account for roughly 12% of the litter found in rivers, lakes and beaches surveyed for a recent global review. Researchers pooled data from 130 studies conducted in 55 countries between ...

For award-winning Italian photographer Federico Borella, capturing Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict on camera is more than just a photographic assignment. Keen to record the complexity of the ...