The world has a new way to make money from the Amazon. Indigenous peoples and traditional communities could find themselves serving a more hostile economy.

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Could preserving the regional knowledge and behavior of certain species also help conservation efforts?

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The animal emblem of Western Australia, the numbat, is recovering after decades of conservation efforts, according to the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority. For decades, the numbat or b...

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Bees respond to tasty treats or plain water based on context, study that may provide support for establishing insect sentience shows * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When bumblebees taste something good, they reach out their glossa – or insect tongue – for a while afterwards, almost as if they are licking their lips. And when they don’t like something, the insects will shake their heads and wipe their mouths. Scientists who captured the miniature facial expressions on slow-motion video say the behaviour is consistent with “liking” and “disliking” responses observed in mammals. Their results have been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Continue reading...

A council debate on scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed after extreme heat made the chamber unusable