1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (513+ words) On the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Marcio Karai is setting up a new hive for stingless Mirim bees. The beekeeper is member of the Guarani, one of South America’s largest indigenous groups. His community has been passing down knowledge about…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (77+ words) DW.com Palm oil is chipping away at Borneo’s rainforest. As orangutans lose their habitat, local people are fighting to preserve the forest. DW’s on-the-ground reporters are always close to the action, be it covering international events or zooming in…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (142+ words) DW.com Living with bears: A Romanian town and its wild neighbors Just a few years ago, dozens of brown bears roamed the streets of Băile Tușnad, a small spa town in Romania. Drawn by garbage and fruit trees, they…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (258+ words) The haul of live insects included dubia cockroaches and Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Authorities said it was the country's biggest-ever seizure of illegal exotic invertebrates. Wildlife officers in Australia have confiscated more than 100,000 illegal cockroaches in a raid on a commercial…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (69+ words) DW.com 'Winter insomnia' – Why Himalayan bears are sleeping less More on Nature and Environment from Asia India: Indigenous women resist mega dam project Chennai reservoir plans spark protests, warnings The 'green' mining boom poisoning rivers in Southeast Asia More…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (534+ words) Scientists knew they had encountered something special when they first saw the tiny blue octopus in the depths of the Galapagos Islands. There's a new octopus on the ocean floors of Ecuador's Galapagos Islands that is tiny and blue (and…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (370+ words) It was not immediately clear if the whale was Timmy, the humpback whale that captivated Germany for weeks while getting stranded multiple times off the German coast. A whale has reportedly been spotted off the Danish island of Anholt, with…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago   (200+ words) DW.com Black kites in Delhi Black kites in Delhi, India, reveal a striking story of urban wildlife survival as thousands of raptors thrive above one of the world’s busiest cities. This report follows scientists tagging young birds high in…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (760+ words) In 2017, David Attenborough told documentary maker Louis Theroux that his greatest regret about his career was that he'd missed out on seeing his two children — Robert and Susan — grow up due to his extensive traveling. In this 1957 picture, he is…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1187+ words) Known as the "unicorns of the sea," narwhals are fleeing Canada's far north. Researchers suspect a link to noise pollution from increasing ship traffic. For Alex Ootoowak, watching the speckled gray narwhals migrate in the icy waters of the Arctic…...