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8h ago
For many people across sub-Saharan Africa, Cleome gyandra, commonly known as the spider plant, is not food: it’s a weed. A tall, leggy plant with stars of almond-shaped leaves and clusters of white flowers, the spider plant is particularly common in Southern and East African countries. Yet until recently, it was a “forgotten” crop: sometimes ..read more
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8h ago
Gold mining has been a feature of the Andean Amazon since pre-Colombian times and, along with silver, it was the cornerstone of the economy in the colonial and republican periods. In Brazil, gold mining was a source of wealth for the Portuguese crown and a major diver in the colonization of Mato Grosso and Rondônia ..read more
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8h ago
The Amazon’s most fertile, productive forests, which are critical for supplying Brazil’s agricultural region with rainfall, are also the most vulnerable to drought, according to recent research that has mapped drought resilience across the basin. An international team of researchers analyzed 20 years of satellite data to understand why some forests might be more resilient ..read more
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KATHMANDU — Amid the tall, rustling elephant grass on the banks of a nearly stagnant Rapti River, half a dozen spotted deer approach mounds of rhino excrement. Unbeknown to them, a camera trap nearby is recording, and it catches them as, with delicate sniffs and tentative nibbles, they begin to eat this most unexpected of ..read more
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12h ago
Mines are widespread in the biome, affecting especially Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, and Peru, following a sharp increase in the price of the metal, which nearly doubled since 2018 ..read more
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17h ago
In early April, 13 leaders representing more than 60 artisanal fishing unions traveled to the city of Lima from different parts of the Peruvian coast. Their aim: stopping the approval of two bills they say put the Peruvian sea at risk and violate the rights of artisanal fishers. The proposals, presented by members of ..read more
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17h ago
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has ordered a palm oil company to pay 1 billion rupiah ($61,000) in fines for shortchanging villagers by not sufficiently paying them according to a profit-sharing agreement. The company in question, PT Hardaya Inti Plantations (HIP), has been embroiled in conflicts with villagers in its concession on the Indonesian island ..read more
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20h ago
KUERIMA, Panama — Once you’re within the Ngäbe-Buglé Indigenous territory in western Panama, the vegetation of the rainforest grows thick and signs of industrial development are scarce. Dirt roads wind up muddy jungled hills to wooden homes with palm-thatched roofs, and the women of the group can be seen carrying babies on their backs in ..read more
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20h ago
Deep in the Congo rainforest, Edward McLester witnessed a spectacle few scientists have seen: a troop of golden-bellied mangabeys (Cercocebus chrysogaster) causing a ruckus, their vibrant underbellies flashing through the understory. “Walking through the forest dozens of kilometers from the nearest person and surrounded by 70-odd large monkeys on the ground all screaming and whooping ..read more
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20h ago
A rare bird known only from a single specimen captured in the eastern Congo Basin nearly 70 years ago has become one of the most sought-after species in the global Search for Lost Birds initiative. Scientists first described the Itombwe nightjar, also known as Prigogine’s nightjar (Caprimulgus prigoginei), from a female specimen captured in 1955 ..read more