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Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists

Since 1970, the population sizes of global wildlife have plummeted by nearly 70%, says WWF latest Living Planet Report, the most comprehensive in its 24-year history

Continued greenhouse gas emissions risk triggering climate tipping points. These are self-sustaining shifts in the climate system that would lock-in devastating changes, like sea-level rise, even if all emissions ended.

One of Brazil’s biggest gold refiners, which processes gold suspected of being mined illegally in the Amazon rainforest, has been stripped of an important industry seal of approval that global manufacturers from Apple to Tesla rely on to root out abuses in their supply chains

Bolsonaro "derided Indigenous people, environmentalists and science" while weakening environmental protections

Review: Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre, NGV International.

Reactionary populism is now the biggest obstacle to tackling climate change. With outright climate denial no longer an option, populist politicians have increasingly positioned themselves as climate doubters and delayers, and this new approach is proving to be quite insidious. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global greenhouse-gas…

Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Natural Park is a natural, historical and cultural wonder. Located in the northwestern part of the Colombian Amazon, it covers 43,000 square kilometres and contains what are probably some of the most ancient traces of human occupation in the Americas, with tens of thousands of pictographs in…

Brazil’s presidential race will go to a second round after neither candidate clinched the overall majority needed to win.