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Hunted for its scales and meat, the pangolin, or scaly anteater, is threatened across Asia and Africa by a massive trade in animal parts that is supplying the appetite for traditional medicine, among other uses. The increase in the number of pangolins trafficked globally over the past decade has

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious push to better connect China with the world through the build out of infrastructure -- such as roads, rail lines and shipping routes to facilitate trade -- as well as energy development in the form of pipelines and power plants. More recently

In early 2019, South Africa-based Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism launched #WildEye, a digital GeoJournalism tool that collects and shares data on legal interventions against wildlife trafficking in Europe. In May 2020, with global attention focused on the wildlife trade as a res

Climate change is altering the ecosystems we rely on to keep us healthy and nourished. Warming seas, for instance, kill off huge numbers of fish that feed – and provide jobs – to tens of millions of people. This warming also leeches seas and oceans of the vitamins and minerals humans and animals

Scientists are examining why floating belts of macro-algae known as sargassum have exploded in the Atlantic over the past decade, swamping beaches with a “brown tide” and greatly altering coastal ecosystems in the Caribbean. The growing discharge of pollutants from the Amazon River is now believe

When Daw Nan Ja and her family were forced from their home 10 years ago, she was well on her way to

Between 1990 and 2016, India lost 235 square kilometres (sq km) of land to coastal erosion. That is