Venezuelan Amazon deforestation expands due to lawlessness, mining, fires: Reports
Aug 31, 2022, 2:21 pm ByMore than 140,000 hectares (346,000 acres) of primary forest in the Venezuelan Amazon were lost…Lack of finance prevents Bangladesh farmers from diversifying their rice crops
Aug 31, 2022, 7:01 am ByBangladesh is home to more than 130 different rice varieties, but a lack of economic incentives…Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’
Aug 31, 2022, 1:18 am ByBANDUNG, Indonesia — In a valley downstream from the source of the Citarum River, retired army…Indepedent watchdog confirms rampant deforestation in the Amazon
Aug 31, 2022, 12:31 am ByDeforestation is on track to register a near-15-year-high in the Brazilian Amazon according to data…In Kathmandu, when the falcon’s away, pigeons come out to play. And poop
Aug 30, 2022, 11:37 am ByKATHMANDU —They can be seen nesting in tight spaces between buildings, on window panes and…Brazil miner sees Indigenous land as ripe for exploration if protections expire
Aug 30, 2022, 7:41 am ByA Brazilian company stands poised to start mining inside an Indigenous territory in the Amazon as…In Indonesian Papua, a one-time gun trafficker now preaches permaculture
Aug 30, 2022, 12:23 am BySORONG, Indonesia — Thriving across half a hectare in the hills of West Papua’s Mariat district…China-backed mine in Indonesia poses high risk, World Bank watchdog warns
Aug 29, 2022, 5:19 pm ByJAKARTA — A China-backed zinc and lead mine being developed in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island may…Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia
Aug 29, 2022, 4:53 pm ByAmid calls for developed nations to phase out coal use by 2030, and for developing countries to do…Delegates come close, but fail again to clinch high seas protection treaty
Aug 29, 2022, 4:48 pm ByU.N. member states came tantalizingly close to sealing a deal for a high-stakes, legally binding…Raids reveal how illegal gold from Indigenous lands gets laundered in Brazil
Aug 29, 2022, 3:53 pm ByCoordinated raids by police in Brazil have shed new light on the workings of the illegal mining…Bolsonaro agenda gets a lift from dominance of ‘new right’ in Congress
Aug 29, 2022, 3:34 pm ByEarly on in the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil’s environment minister, Ricardo Salles, caused outrage…Three-fourths of waste in Jakarta’s notoriously polluted rivers is plastic
Aug 29, 2022, 3:05 pm ByJAKARTA — The Citarum River that skirts the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, is infamous as the most…What’s the chance of meeting Paris climate goal? Just 0.1%, study says
Aug 29, 2022, 2:10 pm ByClimate scientists say there’s a 0.1% chance of keeping warming below 1.5° Celsius (2.7°…Engineers bet on a miracle to bring Nepal’s holy river back to life
Aug 29, 2022, 10:47 am ByKATHMANDU — As the monsoon draws to a close in Nepal, workers are putting the finishing touches on…Sumatran conservationist Rahmad Saleh Simbolon dies at 47
Aug 29, 2022, 5:47 am ByJAMBI, Indonesia — Rahmad Saleh Simbolon, who died of a heart attack on Aug. 9 at age 47, is…Mining the Mekong: Land and livelihoods lost to Cambodia’s thirst for sand
Aug 29, 2022, 4:03 am ByROKA KOANG, Cambodia — Some 45 kilometers, or 28 miles, up the Mekong River from Phnom Penh, Voi…No time to keep vultures out of danger as new Nepal airport set to open
Aug 26, 2022, 2:51 pm ByKATHMANDU — Conservationists in Nepal have expressed concern over the opening of a new airport in…A fisheries observer’s disappearance sheds light on a bigger problem
Aug 26, 2022, 10:03 am ByThis story is a reporting collaboration between Mongabay Latam and La Barra Espaciadora. At 6…Fisheries crackdown pushes Cambodians to the brink on Tonle Sap lake
Aug 26, 2022, 3:23 am ByCHHNOK TRU, Cambodia — From her sun-bleached wooden houseboat in the floating village of Koh…
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