Latin American cartels once were masters of the drug trade, but spikes in prices led them into controlling a new venture.

While much has been written about bitcoin, many people still find it a hard topic to comprehend, even as promoters like U.S.

Isangi, Lulingu, Mapendo and Ndjingala: these are the names of four Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri) that ...

One of Switzerland’s glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country’s glaciers. Holes are emerging inside — a bit like Swiss cheese — seemingly caused by ...

We were amazed when we first noticed this behavior,” said Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for Whale Research in the U.S. state of Washington. What started as a puzzling observation in ...

JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on June 13, just six months after ...

At the world’s first global congress of Indigenous peoples and local communities from forest basins, representatives began ...

For more than 12 years, the government of Viana municipality in Brazil’s Maranhão state dumped used needles and syringes into ...

Nearly five months after Nepal’s Supreme Court struck down a law allowing infrastructure development inside protected areas, ...

Freddy Mbengue, a 24-year-old farmer in a black polo shirt and denim shorts, keeps a watchful eye on the forest. Mbengue is ...

Tyler Kartzinel likens protecting biodiversity to enhancing cellphone networks. His analogy is pretty straightforward: look for gaps in coverage, and then do what’s needed to fill them. “Engineers ...

Hundreds of firefighters backed up by aircraft were battling a wildfire burning out of control for the third day on the ...