Demand for the patchouli plant's oils has skyrocketed in recent years, and so too has the number of farmers in the region who ...

As renewable energy gathers steam around the world, the harms of mining its mineral components continue to grow. On the ...

Hundreds of Indigenous people and civil society groups in Indonesia are demanding an end to government projects that have ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands ...

A comprehensive map of Rainforest Wild Asia can be found near the entrance of the park. Here’s the thing about the park’s layout; unlike wildlife parks such as the Singapore Zoo, you don’t have to ...

Parts of northern Greenland have been explored, but in a very limited way. The Amazon rainforest is absolutely, staggeringly, incomprehensibly enormous. It spans eight countries, is about 28 times ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Indonesia’s Supreme Court has upheld the government’s decision to block further expansion of the Tanah Merah oil palm project in Papua, preserving a Jakarta-sized swath of primary rainforest.

WWF says the deal would preserve one of the last large stands of natural forest on the big Indonesian island of Sumatra, an expanse that has been compared to the Amazon for its richness of species.

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