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Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia
In Nagasaki prefecture, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, J-Power, the operator of the aging Matsushima coal-fired ...
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Traditional ecological knowledge isn’t dying — it’s adapting and transforming (Commentary)
I took a solo trip to the Huánuco region of the central Peruvian Amazon. After traveling five hours from the nearest town by ...
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Helicopters slash the trek to Earth’s highest peak, but leave Sherpas grounded
When Pasang Nuru Sherpa recalls his childhood in the quiet village of Pangboche, in the foothills of Sagarmatha, the Nepali ...
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New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin
Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation ...
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Brazil’s ‘innovative’ reforestation agenda discussed in Davos (commentary)
In the quiet Swiss town of Davos, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain unfolds as young Hans Castorp’s brief visit to a ...
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Philippine Indigenous communities restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding
On the slopes of Mount Kalatungan, a protected area on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines, rows of robusta ...
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‘An oval with legs’: In search of Tanzania’s tiny island antelope
Pemba Island’s Ngezi Forest Reserve, a complex of moist evergreen and coastal forests, mangroves and heathland in the ...