Asia | Life & News

Environment

GPS tracking could help tigers and traffic coexist in Asia

Staff Writer - April 23, 2021

Neil Carter, University of Michigan More than 100,000 tigers ranged across Asia a century ago, from the Indian subcontinent...

Environment

Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations...

Staff Writer - June 19, 2020

Maria Ivanova, University of Massachusetts Boston and Candace Famiglietti, University of Massachusetts Boston Three-quarters of new and emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife....

Environment

Can Asia end its uncontrolled consumption of wildlife? Here’s how North...

Staff Writer - June 18, 2020

Roland Kays, North Carolina State University It was a dark time for animals. Poaching was rampant. Wild birds and mammals were being slaughtered by the...

Environment

What are Asian giant hornets, and are they really dangerous? 5...

Staff Writer - May 11, 2020

Akito Y Kawahara, University of Florida Editor’s note: According to recent press reports, two Asian giant hornets – a species not known to occur in...

Environment

“>Endangered tigers face growing threats from an Asian road-building boom

Staff Writer - April 29, 2020

Neil Carter, University of Michigan Tigers are one of the world’s most iconic wild species, but today they are endangered throughout Asia. They once roamed...

Art

Can sun umbrellas ever become fashionable again in America?

Staff Writer - August 26, 2019

Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University Many of us apply sunscreen when we go to the beach. But walking outside under the fierce summer sun...

Environment

High-value opportunities exist to restore tropical rainforests around the world –...

Staff Writer - July 3, 2019

Robin Chazdon, University of Connecticut The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning...