COP30 tropical forest fund may drive debt and deforestation, groups warn
Nov 7, 2025, 6:57 am By
A new global fund meant to reward tropical countries for protecting forests could instead drive…New pledge, old problems as Indonesia’s latest Indigenous forest promise draws skepticism
Nov 7, 2025, 6:46 am By
BELÉM, Brazil — Indonesia has pledged to recognize the rights of Indigenous and customary…Brazil launches fund tying forest cash to steep deforestation penalties
Nov 7, 2025, 6:29 am By
Brazil officially launched a new financial market fund, called the Tropical Forests Forever…Europe’s under-pressure bats face ‘astonishing’ threat: Ambush by rats
Nov 7, 2025, 6:02 am By
Researchers have captured video of an unexpected predator at two bat hibernation sites in northern…Across the Amazon, impunity among politicians remains chronic
Nov 7, 2025, 4:56 am By
Brazil and the Andean Republics all have constitutional provisions establishing special protocols…Indigenous delegates prepare for COP30 with focus on justice, land and finance
Nov 6, 2025, 7:51 pm By
As the Brazilian city of Belém prepares for this year’s U.N. climate conference, COP30,…UNESCO biosphere listing raises hope, questions for Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain
Nov 6, 2025, 4:57 pm By
Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain, home to orangutans, pygmy elephants and proboscis monkeys, has…Expedition charts Cook Islands seafloor, amid scrutiny over mining motives
Nov 6, 2025, 3:46 pm By
Thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface, a camera attached to a remotely operated vehicle…Researchers define the importance of the ‘circular seabird economy’
Nov 6, 2025, 3:17 pm By
In a review article published in Nature, researchers have introduced a new term to describe the…Leaders of world’s biggest polluters skip UN climate summit
Nov 6, 2025, 3:06 pm By
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — World leaders gathering in a coastal city in the Brazilian Amazon for the…Healthy rivers, healthy people: A Brazil project links human & ecosystem well-being
Nov 6, 2025, 1:44 pm By
Some 30 years ago, Apolo Heringer, a Brazilian public health doctor, was participating in a night…The uncertain future of DRC’s traditional medicine, a heritage to save (commentary)
Nov 6, 2025, 1:24 pm By
In this series, Our Letters to the Future, the sixth cohort of Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation…No, Bill Gates, we don’t have to choose between people & planet (commentary)
Nov 6, 2025, 11:12 am By
Bill Gates has long been a leading voice in the global response to human health and climate change.…Kenya court upholds cancellation of 1,050 MW coal plant license
Nov 6, 2025, 10:18 am By
Kenya’s Environment and Land Court has upheld a 2019 ruling that revoked the environmental license…Vietnam’s protected areas fall short of safeguarding most bats, study finds
Nov 6, 2025, 9:51 am By
Furry, feisty, and often on the wing, bats are tricky to observe, let alone to protect. Some species…In Honduras, local communities miss out on benefits of large-scale renewables
Nov 6, 2025, 9:19 am By
CHOLUTECA, Honduras — Under the slogan “Without human rights, there is no energy sovereignty,”…Women can help rebuild our relationship with lions: Voices from the land (commentary)
Nov 5, 2025, 10:31 pm By
We, the Mama Simba (‘Mothers of Lions’ in Kiswahili) from Samburu, Kenya, have come a long way…Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand
Nov 5, 2025, 9:10 pm By
MAE CHAM/OMKOI, Thailand — Rain lashed down in the northern Thai village of Nong Krating as…Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea
Nov 5, 2025, 6:03 pm By
In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found…Journalism is failing to report on environmental leaders’ fights (commentary)
Nov 5, 2025, 1:46 pm By
In this series, Our Letters to the Future, Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellows…
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