Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria
Mar 24, 2022, 9:19 pm ByEstablished in 1936 and situated just 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the sprawling megacity of…Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report
Mar 24, 2022, 4:06 pm ByChina has spent the last two decades quietly establishing an economic foothold in Latin America, a…Marine cold spells, a potential buffer against warming seas, are fading away
Mar 24, 2022, 3:07 pm ByIn 2010, an influx of cold air blew over the lower Florida Keys, chilling the subtropical waters to…AI model shows how Amazon dams can be made less environmentally damaging
Mar 24, 2022, 2:53 pm ByHydropower accounts for more than 60% of the electricity generated in Brazil. And the network of…Study links many reported fisheries crimes to just a few repeat offenders
Mar 24, 2022, 12:54 pm ByThe shadowy world of fisheries crime is difficult to study; much of the action takes place far from…Stronghold for Africa’s rarest falcon discovered in reserve threatened by Mozambique insurgency
Mar 24, 2022, 10:52 am ByA team of biologists has discovered a nesting stronghold for Africa’s rarest falcon in the granite…Millennia of Indigenous history faces erasure as mining grips Brazil’s Tapajós
Mar 24, 2022, 9:37 am ByThe myth of a “demographic void” in the Amazon and of the “virgin forest” has been…Indigenous land rights take center stage in a new global framework for biodiversity conservation
Mar 24, 2022, 3:40 am ByWith negotiations underway in Geneva for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Indigenous land…In Indonesia’s Spice Islands, some farmers are going back to organic
Mar 24, 2022, 1:19 am ByTERNATE, Indonesia — It’s a sunny day in January in Indonesia’s North Maluku province, and…Podcast: Indigenous peoples, the world’s top conservationists
Mar 24, 2022, 12:51 am ByToday’s installment of the Monabay Newscast is a special Earth Month episode in which we highlight…From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story
Mar 23, 2022, 5:03 pm BySHOUF BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Lebanon — Late afternoon light falls across Talal Riman’s weathered…Bird-counting app kindles interest in Nepal’s rich avian life
Mar 23, 2022, 3:58 pm ByKATHMANDU — Hundreds of bird lovers in Nepal, who would otherwise have been enjoying the spring…Stamping out savanna fires doesn’t bolster carbon sink by much, study finds
Mar 23, 2022, 1:41 pm ByA nearly seven-decade-long experiment in South Africa’s largest national park is yielding…Ships sunk in nuclear tests host diverse corals, study says. But do we need them?
Mar 23, 2022, 11:36 am ByOn May 25, 1946, the United States detonated the first underwater nuclear bomb at Bikini Atoll in…Indigenous communities transform a Mexican desert landscape into forest
Mar 23, 2022, 10:51 am ByIn Tepejillo, on one of the many hills in the southern Mexican municipality of San Juan Bautista…Deforestation for palm oil falls in Southeast Asia, but is it a trend or a blip?
Mar 23, 2022, 4:26 am ByJAKARTA — Deforestation associated with palm oil in the region covering Indonesia, Malaysia and…Multiyear ice thinner than thought as Arctic sea ice reaches winter max: Studies
Mar 22, 2022, 8:35 pm ByArctic sea ice has reached its annual maximum at 14.88 million sq. km. (5.75 million sq. mi.), the…In Brazil, a forest community fights to remain on its traditional land
Mar 22, 2022, 6:57 pm By“We are hopeful, we never gave up on our goal, to get our house back,” says Heber do Prado…Donors must rethink Africa’s flagging Green Revolution, new evaluation shows (commentary)
Mar 22, 2022, 3:30 pm ByA critical new donor-funded evaluation of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has…Chemical recycling: ‘Green’ plastics solution makes more pollution: Report
Mar 22, 2022, 2:35 pm ByA host of cutting-edge plastics processing technologies, known collectively as ‘chemical…
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