The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...

Young tropical forests can regrow twice as fast with enough nitrogen, dramatically increasing carbon capture, according to a ...

Few locations on Earth are as haunting or deeply ironic as so-called involuntary parks — places too toxic, dangerous, or ...

The Indonesian government has scrapped a plan to retire a major coal-fired power plant, after having promised for years to do ...

Doug McConnell spent much of his adult life doing something that sounds simple and is not: he helped people look closely at ...

Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history ...

Environmental data-gathering technology has proliferated in recent years. But how do you derive meaningful insights from ...

Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

JAKARTA — Indonesia has reclaimed more than 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres, about the size of Switzerland) of land ...

After years of uneven progress, deforestation in Indonesia is poised to accelerate, owing to widespread logging, expanding ...

Marine heat waves have become longer and more frequent along the U.S. West Coast, as elsewhere in the world. But heating ...

A new study finds Greenland sharks retain functional vision for over 100 years, challenging the belief that the world’s ...