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ENVIRONMENT

Wildlife

David Cooper (left), executive secretary of COP16, Colombian Environment Minister and COP16 President Susana Muhamad (center), and Astrid Schomaker, secretary of COP16, attend the closing session of the conference in Cali, Colombia, on Saturday.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Nov 3, 2024

U.N. talks on saving nature stumble on finance hurdle

By Mariëtte le Roux and Benjamin Legendre

COP16 was suspended after negotiations ran nearly 12 hours longer than planned and delegates started leaving.

The closing session of the United Nations' COP16 summit in Cali, Colombia, on Friday

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Nov 2, 2024

Talks on halting nature loss run into extra time in Colombia

By Mariëtte le Roux

A closing plenary session started more than four hours late as groups of negotiators huddled behind closed doors seeking to iron out their differences.

Akira Oishi (left) and Shinichi Okanobori have taken on the responsibility of surveying the flora and fauna of Mount Tenran and Mount Tonosu in Saitama Prefecture.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife / Longform

Nov 2, 2024

Inside Japan's 100-year project to monitor its deteriorating biodiversity

By Alex K.T. Martin

With researchers and an army of volunteers on its side, the Monitoring Sites 1,000 project aims to bring attention to our fragile ecosystems.

Bleached corals in Koh Mak, Thailand, on May 8

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 28, 2024

Earth's biodiversity crisis in numbers

By Benjamin Legendre

The COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, enters its second week to assess progress toward halting and reversing nature's destruction by 2030.

Andrea Galeano, head of amphibian and reptile collections at the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute, holds an Atelopus marinkellei frog captured during the Humboldt Institute's expeditions, in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, on Oct. 11.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 28, 2024

Colombia's peace opened wildlife to discovery, but new violence frustrates progress

By Jake Spring

Colombia is now the world's most dangerous place for environmentalists, with 79 killed last year — the most ever in one country in a single year.

Embers glow at night as the Basin Fire burns in the Sierra National Forest in Fresno County, California, on June 26.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 25, 2024

Wildfires are gaining speed in a worrying trend for western U.S.

By Todd Woody

The growth rate of the fastest wildfires increased 249% in the region between 2001 and 2020.

A capuchin monkey at the Nupana wildlife refuge near San Jose del Guaviare, Guaviare department, Colombia, in July last year.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Oct 21, 2024

Nature ‘piracy’ and funding battles will dominate U.N. biodiversity summit

By Natasha White

The planet is in a "critical situation,” said Susana Muhamad, COP16 president and Colombia’s environment minister.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

It's back to the classroom for some residents as municipal governments across the country conduct lessons to learn how to use new technologies.

Can aging Japan go digital without leaving anyone behind?

By Tomoko Otake

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Challenging spirit and teamwork keep ANA flying high

Challenging spirit and teamwork keep ANA flying high

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