Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants
Aug 18, 2021, 11:22 am By MongabayJAKARTA — More than half of Indonesian medicinal plant species won’t be able to grow in most of…An Ecuadoran town that survived illegal miners now faces a licensed operator
Aug 18, 2021, 9:17 am By MongabayIn 2017, the name “La Merced de Buenos Aires,” or simply “Buenos Aires,” became famous…Even as the government bets big on carbon, REDD+ flounders in Madagascar
Aug 18, 2021, 8:38 am By MongabayREDD+ is an idea that has launched a thousand projects. It’s essentially a way to monetize…Weak controls fuel surge in wildlife trafficking by air across Latin America
Aug 18, 2021, 6:57 am By MongabayBrazilian authorities point to Russian biologist Kyrill Kravchenko as an international wildlife…Cambodian dam a ‘disaster’ for local communities, rights group says
Aug 18, 2021, 5:18 am By MongabayThe Lower Sesan 2 hydroelectric scheme was completed in northeast Cambodia in 2018. The reservoir…Trawling bycatch increases risk of marine life extinction in Brazil
Aug 18, 2021, 4:24 am By MongabayFishing trawlers threaten marine life with extinction along Brazil’s coast. Researchers point out…Indigenous Amazonian communities bear the burden of Ecuador’s balsa boom
Aug 17, 2021, 7:25 pm By MongabayThis story is a reporting partnership between Mongabay Latam and La Barra Espaciadora. Balsa wood…A bad fire year predicted in Brazil’s Acre state. What’s to be done?
Aug 17, 2021, 11:49 am By MongabayThe Brazilian state of Acre, nestled along the border with Peru and Bolivia in the Amazon, has been…Brazil a wreck on trawling control
Aug 17, 2021, 11:41 am By MongabayTrawling has been uncontrolled for decades in Brazil, claim public agencies, researchers and…Indonesia reports two new Javan rhino calves in the species’ last holdout
Aug 17, 2021, 9:31 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesian conservation authorities have announced separate sightings of two new Javan…X-Press Pearl sinking shines a light on seafood safety in Sri Lanka
Aug 17, 2021, 8:52 am By MongabayCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sunitha Rathnayake, a homemaker in southern Sri Lanka, was down to the last…In Chile, a prickly coalition tries to bring a salt flat back to life
Aug 17, 2021, 7:22 am By MongabayOver the past 27 years, mining for copper by Minera Escondida, a company co-owned by…Scientists, communities battle against Philippine land reclamation project
Aug 17, 2021, 7:00 am By MongabayDUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — Local authorities in the central Philippines pushing ahead with a…China joins the foreign fleets quietly exploiting Madagascar’s waters
Aug 16, 2021, 12:38 pm By MongabayThis is part of a two-article series on industrial fishing in Madagascar’s waters. Part one…Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started
Aug 16, 2021, 9:41 am By MongabayJAKARTA — An area of rainforest nearly five times the size of London has been destroyed in the…Indonesian farmers refuse to budge for train line through karst landscape
Aug 16, 2021, 6:39 am By MongabayMAROS, Indonesia — Santuwo straightens the crease in the sarong that he often wears while working…2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the Amazon
Aug 16, 2021, 6:30 am By MongabayThe great drought and megafires that the Amazon experienced in recent years caused the death of 2.5…Loss of mangroves dims the light on firefly populations in Malaysia
Aug 15, 2021, 9:30 am By MongabayEvery evening, along the banks of the Rembau River in Malaysia, fireflies put on a spectacular…Swarm technology: Researchers experiment with drones to battle crop pests
Aug 13, 2021, 1:06 pm By MongabayIn some places in North America, the sound of buzzing above fields and forests may no longer…In Sri Lanka, biologists and divers build a Facebook for sea turtles
Aug 13, 2021, 11:24 am By MongabayMATARA, Sri Lanka — The Polhena reef and the surrounding shallow seas in southern Sri Lanka are…
- 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