In the Tang dynasty, Chinese merchants began buying rice on credit with a system that relied on trust and trade to sidestep ...

U.S. canned tuna producer Bumble Bee Foods has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it knowingly benefited from ...

In a significant blow to wildlife trafficking, Nigerian authorities recently seized 2 metric tons of pangolin scales, worth ...

While oil prospects in the Amazon north shore attract international attention, the offer of exploration blocks around ...

This May, divers found stony coral tissue loss disease on corals in Laughing Bird Caye National Park, Belize, for the first ...

The Pacific Ocean fog hung densely over the narrow mouth of the Klamath River in this coastal rainforest in northern ...

Nurul Nazipah’s favorite dish to cook is one that involves going into the Muaro Jambi forest to pick from among 120 different ...

Sending scuba divers down to survey corals is time-consuming and expensive. In recent years, scientists have developed other ...

Banks in Latin America are under increasing pressure to develop financial policies that support the transition to a greener ...

Brazil had no contingency plans for unexpected encounters with Indigenous peoples living in isolation. If government ...

The Kasawari gas field, off the coast of Malaysian Borneo, was discovered in 2011 and has been seen as a lifeline for the ...

Every night for three decades, Marwati would worry about snakes crawling out of the walls of her house near the east coast of ...