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Starokozache Solar Park. Photo credits: Activ Solar (Flickr)

Articles, Nature & Environment September 18, 2025

Palm Oil Continues to Plague Borneo’s Orangutans, Elephants, and Other Icons

Despite 35 years of awareness campaigns, palm oil plantations still devastate the landscape of this biodiversity hotspot and the animals who depend on native forests….

Issues July 2, 2025

July-September 2025 (ONE)

Palm oil plantation in Cigudeg, Bogor (Indonesia).

Nature & Environment January 22, 2025

Tree Islands ‘Restore Biodiversity’ in Oil Palm Farms

Environmentalists have long worried about the negative impacts of oil palm cultivation, especially on biodiversity when forests are burned and turned into plantations. Now researchers…

The Lost Bayou: Grand Bayou

Grand Bayou, LA. At one time, it was a lively community of close-knit families, until they were forced to leave. ©2020. Garde Voir Ci magazine. Nicholls State University Department of Mass Communication.

World Rainforest Day

Rainforests cover only 2 percent of the planet’s surface area but are responsible for more than 25% of all Western medicine and house more than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species.