The World’s Most Exclusive Tennis Clubs
A New York City tennis permit costs $100 and arrives in the mail about three weeks later. From…
Giant Crocodiles Once Preyed on Massive Mammals in South America
Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what…
Rescued lions and tigers leave Argentine zoo for sanctuaries abroad
LUJAN, Argentina (AP) — Thirty lions and tigers that were kept alive — barely — for years in…
‘I’m known as the only solo girl cycling the Americas’
A cyclist believes she is the only woman currently riding solo from the top of North America to…
Amazon nations carry out major multinational crackdown on environmental crime
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Police from five Amazon countries have arrested hundreds of people and seized timber, minerals…
One of the world’s largest rodents was imported for fur farming in North America; today it’s devastating wetlands and riverbanks across US |
Two hundred years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to find them outside of South America. But since…
Discovery of New Avocado Types Could Lead to More Superfood Choices and Resilience
A close-up of the new avocado species – credit, Kevin Wann, via SWNS Scientists trudging through Nicaragua’s rainforest…
Lindsey Graham, pivotal US Republican senator, dies suddenly at 71
US senator Lindsey Graham, a key Republican who went from a vocal critic of Donald Trump to one…
Colombia’s outgoing environment minister warns of climate action setbacks
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia ’s outgoing environment minister warned Friday that the incoming government could reverse recent…
Dodgers’ Eliézer Alfonzo makes MLB debut with sister, stepmother still missing in Venezuela quakes
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the major leagues seemed far away to Eliézer Alfonzo during his near-decade in…
Costa Rica lost nearly half its forests in just a few decades, then planted millions of trees and became one of the world’s greatest reforestation success stories |
By the 1980s, Costa Rica was facing an environmental crisis that few could have imagined just decades earlier.…
Venezuelan earthquake rescuers save three-year-old boy after six days underneath rubble
A three-year-old boy has been saved from underneath rubble caused by Venezuela’s two devastating earthquakes, six days after…