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For the pastoralist Nuer people who migrate with the seasons between western Ethiopia’s Gambella region and Africa’s largest ...

The command-and-control approach to reducing or eliminating environmental wrongdoing depends on both carrots and sticks. The ...

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An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For most ...

Singapore, the smallest country in Southeast Asia, lost most of its original forest cover in the early 1800s to agriculture.