Ecotourism revenues plummeted around the world as some areas saw poaching and land grabs increase in…
Year: 2020
How 6 states and D.C. are taking coronavirus relief into their own hands
Cash-strapped states and cities have spent six months waiting and pleading for help from the feds…
Floods, storms and searing heat: 2020 in extreme weather
While Covid has dominated the news, the world has also felt the effects of human-driven global…
Moths to monkeys: 503 new species identified by UK scientists
Spectacular discovery of monkey in Myanmar among new species described this year by Natural History Museum…
Iceland’s innovations to reach net-zero – in pictures
Isolated and challenged by a harsh climate and battered by the financial crisis of 2008, Iceland…
Specieswatch: monarch butterfly needs urgent protection
Eastern populations have fallen by 80% but US government says it is unworthy of special attention…
Country diary: a ‘mountain’ town much like Chamonix
Keswick, Cumbria: The comparatively diminutive stature is more than made up for by the zeal with…
Cold comfort farming: German ice wine maker hails crucial big chill
On a recent frosty night, Ralf Petgen made use of the light of a full moon…
Louisiana congressman-elect dies of Covid
Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from the coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed Tuesday evening. He was…
Pence declined to back Gohmert-led effort to upend election, lawyers indicate
Lawyers for Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Arizona’s 11 Republican electors revealed Tuesday that Vice President…