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JAKARTA — Indonesia has reclaimed more than 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres, about the size of Switzerland) of land ...

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Since July 2024, three Andean condor chicks have hatched at an artificial incubation program located near Bogotá, Colombia’s ...

On a busy weekday, the coastal strip of Bountiya in Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s second-biggest city, is eerily quiet. This was ...

After major ant seizures worldwide, conservationists urge CITES protections to curb the largely unregulated global trade in ...

Myanmar is a country of extremes. From tropical forests, mangroves and wetlands to frost-bitten alpine mountain slopes and ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

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