December 25, 2024

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Akira Oishi (left) and Shinichi Okanobori have taken on the responsibility of surveying the flora and fauna of Mount Tenran and Mount Tonosu in Saitama Prefecture.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife / Longform

Nov 2, 2024

Inside Japan's 100-year project to monitor its deteriorating biodiversity

By Alex K.T. Martin

With researchers and an army of volunteers on its side, the Monitoring Sites 1,000 project aims to bring attention to our fragile ecosystems.

Bleached corals in Koh Mak, Thailand, on May 8

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 28, 2024

Earth's biodiversity crisis in numbers

By Benjamin Legendre

The COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, enters its second week to assess progress toward halting and reversing nature's destruction by 2030.

Andrea Galeano, head of amphibian and reptile collections at the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute, holds an Atelopus marinkellei frog captured during the Humboldt Institute's expeditions, in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, on Oct. 11.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 28, 2024

Colombia's peace opened wildlife to discovery, but new violence frustrates progress

By Jake Spring

Colombia is now the world's most dangerous place for environmentalists, with 79 killed last year — the most ever in one country in a single year.

Embers glow at night as the Basin Fire burns in the Sierra National Forest in Fresno County, California, on June 26.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 25, 2024

Wildfires are gaining speed in a worrying trend for western U.S.

By Todd Woody

The growth rate of the fastest wildfires increased 249% in the region between 2001 and 2020.

A capuchin monkey at the Nupana wildlife refuge near San Jose del Guaviare, Guaviare department, Colombia, in July last year.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 21, 2024

Nature ‘piracy’ and funding battles will dominate U.N. biodiversity summit

By Natasha White

The planet is in a "critical situation,” said Susana Muhamad, COP16 president and Colombia’s environment minister.

A new report said that fires in the northern boreal forests, which span from Russia to North America, have almost tripled during the past 20 years.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 18, 2024

Global forest fire carbon emissions have jumped 60% in 20 years

By Coco Liu

Forest fire severity — a measure of how much carbon is emitted per unit of area burned — is also up by nearly 50% globally.

Zootechnician Alejandra Curubo holds a tadpole in Nocaima, Cundinamarca department, Colombia, on July 9.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 17, 2024

Lab-grown frogs: A Colombian's response to wildlife trafficking

By Andrea TOSTA

The illegal trade in wild flora and fauna is the fourth-most profitable illicit business in the world.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.

Is Japan ready for 60 million tourists?

By Kathryn Wortley

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