A company backed by US investors sold "deforestation-free" palm oil to the makers of Cheetos, Colgate and Pepsi. But its investors have ties to the company that cleared Amazonian rainforest for ...
Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. From above, the surrounding landscape looks like ...
More than 1,300 pea-sized snails, once believed to have gone extinct after no sightings were recorded for more than a century, have been released into the wild. Two species of the Desertas Island land ...
“Penta” in Latin means five and “trichomatus” refers to trichomes or hair-like growths. The botanists found the plant while on an expedition into the remote Balbalasang rainforest on the northern ...