Global demand for lithium is expected to increase by nearly 500% over the next few decades, as countries invest more in ...

Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, ...

Before, anyone who wanted to grow cacao at 1,200 or 1,500 meters [3,900 to 4,900 feet] altitude was considered crazy,” says Orlando Quintero Gonzales, an agronomist in Colombia’s Eje Cafetero, or the ...

Banking on the capacity of global forests to continue storing huge amounts of carbon could put the Paris Agreement climate ...

Rita grew up in a small village in Uttarakhand with mountains forming the backbone of her childhood. In a recent call with ...

Brazil's Supreme Court backed down and withdrew its proposal to open up Indigenous territories to mining and economic ...

Microplastics are a growing ecological and human health crisis: Scientist have found the tiny plastic particles everywhere ...

Tokay geckos (Gekko gecko), named after their characteristic “to-kay” calls, are among the largest geckos in the world and ...

The International Seabed Authority has expressed concern following reports that the U.S. subsidiary of The Metals Company is ...

In many parts of Brazil, rivers may be losing water to the ground instead of gaining from it. A recent study found that ...

Traffic noise isn’t just unpleasant; in the Galápagos Islands, it can also make songbirds aggressive, a recent study has ...

A village on Nepal’s border with India has found a way to reduce conflicts with wild Asian elephants in recent years: By switching their crops from rice and maize, which elephants love to eat, to tea ...