‘The wheels came off’: South Africa court nixes coal mine extension
May 12, 2022, 5:03 pm ByA South African judge has declared invalid the 2016 extension of a mining right to allow Tendele…The case for geoengineering Earth’s climate future: Q&A with Wake Smith
May 12, 2022, 3:40 pm ByOn June 15, 1991, Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, sending around 5 cubic kilometers (1…‘Bring back burning culture’ to save seabirds: Q&A with Wudjari ranger Jennell Reynolds
May 12, 2022, 3:12 pm ByIn February 2020, lightning struck Figure of Eight Island in Western Australia’s Recherche…Malawi steps up action against illegal charcoal trade (analysis)
May 12, 2022, 12:33 pm ByDaniel Kabichi’s telephone has been ringing a lot lately. As head of law enforcement operations…Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests
May 12, 2022, 12:02 pm ByTraining cattle ranchers in Brazil to recover degraded pastures could curb carbon dioxide emissions,…Banks bet big on coal in Indonesia, bucking global shift away from fossil fuel
May 12, 2022, 9:10 am ByJAKARTA — A surge in coal prices is driving a wave of bank loans to miners in Indonesia, the…China-funded dam could disrupt key Argentine glaciers and biodiversity
May 12, 2022, 7:00 am ByA hydroelectric dam complex in southern Argentina, one of the country’s largest energy projects,…Conservation win for Bangladesh as efforts to halt vulture decline pay off
May 12, 2022, 6:38 am ByVultures were a common sight across the Indian subcontinent until the late 1980s. But the excessive…Missing the emissions for the trees: Biomass burning booms in East Asia
May 11, 2022, 4:55 pm ByThis is part 1 of a 2 part series. The second story will be published May, 18, 2022. The European…Indonesia cancels fisheries infrastructure projects in Maluku region amid lack of funds
May 11, 2022, 4:46 pm ByIn April, Indonesia’s fisheries minister, Sakti Wahyu Trenggono, announced there would be no…Food for all: Q&A with Michel Pimbert of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
May 11, 2022, 4:24 pm ByJust east of Birmingham in the U.K. sits the sixth-largest university in the country, Coventry…In oil palm-dominated Malaysia, agroforestry orchards are oases of bird life: Study
May 11, 2022, 3:48 pm ByMalaysia is the second-largest palm oil producer in the world, behind only Indonesia. In 2020 alone,…Podcast: She’s here! Rare Sumatran rhino calf born at rhino sanctuary
May 11, 2022, 1:56 pm ByFor this bonus episode of the Mongabay Explores Podcast, we speak with Mongabay senior staff writer…Biologist fighting plastic pollution to save sea turtles wins ‘Green Oscar’
May 11, 2022, 8:01 am ByConservation biologist Estrela Matilde has won the 2022 Whitley Award for her work to save sea…WCS CEO to depart conservation group for the Bezos Earth Fund
May 11, 2022, 12:21 am ByCristián Samper, the President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), will step down…Deforestation-neutral mining? Madagascar study shows it can be done, but it’s complicated
May 11, 2022, 12:10 am ByThe Ambatovy nickel mine located in a biodiversity-rich Madagascar rainforest made up for the forest…Newly described plant is latest fruit of Sri Lankan botanists’ collaboration
May 10, 2022, 6:01 pm ByCOLOMBO — The Knuckles mountain range in central Sri Lanka is a UNESCO-declared World Heritage…Himalayan musk deer talk to each other through poop, but poachers are also listening
May 10, 2022, 4:15 pm ByKATHMANDU — On April 25, 2020, barely a month after the country went into COVID-19 lockdown,…Scheme to stop ‘conflict minerals’ fails to end child labor in DRC, report says
May 10, 2022, 4:09 pm BySmelters and manufacturers that use coltan, tin and tungsten in cars, mobile devices and other…Indonesia’s revocation of palm oil, mining permits marred by ‘maladministration’
May 10, 2022, 2:17 pm ByJAKARTA — The office of the Indonesian ombudsman says it has found indications of…
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