The time it takes to cross the Ayapel swamp, the largest swamp in the department of Córdoba, northern Colombia, is a good ...

Two hundred meters below the surface of the sea is a cold, faintly lit layer of water known as the mesopelagic, or twilight, ...

Biologists have long known hornbills are supreme long-distance seed dispersers. The iconic forest birds are capable of ...

The town of Catacocha, located in the south of Ecuador, is in a province known for being almost a desert: dry forest, barren ...

Most of Venezuela’s shrimp farms sit on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, a brackish lagoon covering an area larger than ...

Funding from the New Zealand government is helping Indigenous farmers in Indonesian Borneo improve their livelihoods while ...

Growers in Nigeria are suffering huge losses due to a disruption of farming seasons caused by unusual and extreme weather ...

Violent crackdowns by Ecuadorian security forces on antimining protesters there have highlighted the outsize role that ...

A major iron mining project in eastern Guinea may be at risk as its owner, the U.S. firm HPX, is reportedly running into ...

Mining and power generation companies invest in the Amazon because it is profitable. But their development is costly, so ...

Eka Karlina repeats a mantra to her Dayak Pitap ancestors as she runs her fingers through the soil, combing the field in ...

Economic metaphors can be ironic, unexpectedly so. The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the 1992 UN Convention on ...