How Indigenous peoples and local communities can make the voluntary carbon market work for them (commentary)
Nov 27, 2023, 10:30 am By“Humanity has opened the gates to hell by allowing the climate crisis to worsen”, said Antonio…Paradise lost? Brazil’s biggest bauxite mining firm denies riverine rights
Nov 27, 2023, 10:04 am ByThis story was produced with support from the Rainforest Journalism Fund/Pulitzer Center.…Llama herding helps community in Peru recover from a melting glacier
Nov 27, 2023, 9:27 am ByWhen a glacier melts, all it leaves in its wake is untouched ground. These craggy, lifeless rocks…North Atlantic orcas reveal the troubling persistence of toxic ocean pollutants
Nov 27, 2023, 9:25 am ByWith their shiny black tops and pure white undersides, the killer whales, or orcas, are the sleekest…Discriminatory U.S. housing policies still affect bird sightings 90 years later
Nov 27, 2023, 9:18 am ByCitizen scientists are the main “collectors” of all recorded bird data, especially in the United…In Brazil’s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve
Nov 24, 2023, 3:54 pm ByThe makeshift road tears through the emerald canopy, splintering one of the Amazon’s most pristine…Jane Goodall and Dax DaSilva partner with Amazon Indigenous youth for new Roots & Shoots program
Nov 24, 2023, 1:21 pm ByRenowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall is bringing her youth program, Roots &…Killings of Bornean orangutans could lead to their extinction
Nov 24, 2023, 11:24 am ByOnly about 100,000 Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) remain, less than half of their original…Chemical recycling of plastic not so fantastic, report finds
Nov 24, 2023, 5:38 am ByIn today’s industrialized world, avoiding plastic is virtually impossible. Every trip to the…U.N. carbon trading scheme holds promise and peril for tropical forests
Nov 23, 2023, 7:08 am BySuriname’s recently announced plans to sell carbon credits under the Paris Agreement’s emissions…Clouded leopards face alarming decline amid ‘genetic crisis,’ study warns
Nov 22, 2023, 10:26 pm ByWith their camouflaged coats, impossibly long tails, and extraordinary tree-climbing skills, clouded…Investigation shows ‘shadow companies’ linked to Indonesia palm oil giant First Resources
Nov 22, 2023, 9:22 pm ByOne of the world’s largest palm oil companies appears to have overseen a network of companies…90 NGOs question Thailand Prime Minister on fisheries deregulation plan (commentary)
Nov 22, 2023, 8:17 pm ByThe government of Thailand is about to reverse eight years of progress. Following the elections in…Coffee and cacao in the Pan Amazon
Nov 22, 2023, 2:03 pm ByCoffee and cacao have much in common. Both are descended from understory trees adapted to the…Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran & petrochemical industry stall plastics treaty: Critics
Nov 22, 2023, 10:57 am ByThe third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC) ended on…Can impermanent carbon credits really offset forever emissions?
Nov 22, 2023, 10:14 am ByOffsetting the carbon emissions released when we fly in a jet or when a company ships its products…Glyphosate leaves its mark even in protected areas of Brazil’s Cerrado
Nov 22, 2023, 9:50 am ByBreathing clean air in Brazil’s Cerrado grassland has become increasingly hard, according to a…The coveted legacy of the ‘Man of the Hole’ and his cultivated Amazon forest
Nov 22, 2023, 2:00 am ByOne night in 1995, amid daily efforts to obtain an image of Tanaru, Indigenous expert and filmmaker…Growing rubber drives more deforestation than previously thought, study finds
Nov 22, 2023, 12:46 am ByRubber cultivation in Southeast Asia is responsible for double or even triple the deforestation…How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
Nov 21, 2023, 11:03 pm BySABAH, Malaysia — Although it’s early in the day, the sun is already beating down fiercely as we…
- Visit Mongabay at news.mongabay.com
- mongabay on Twitter
- Bookmark and Share
- Mongabay RSS Feed
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator.
Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
DeSmogBlog
Earth911
EPA News
InsideClimate News
Mongabay
SciDev
The Ecologist