Microplastics plus organic pollutants equals 10 times the toxicity, study finds
Mar 4, 2022, 1:21 pm ByA tiny, poppy seed-sized particle of plastic might seem innocuous on its own. But when a speck of…From humble roots, a restoration plan in Brazil aims for 1.5m hectares of forest
Mar 4, 2022, 1:00 pm ByWe set out from the town of Extrema, in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, in a four-wheel-drive vehicle…Can we save coral reefs? | Problem Solved
Mar 4, 2022, 11:46 am ByCoral reefs are a unique and biodiverse natural ecosystem and economic keystones for many…In Nigeria, a decade of payoffs boosted global wildlife trafficking hub
Mar 4, 2022, 11:16 am ByLAGOS — Nigeria has for years failed to hold wildlife traffickers and poachers accountable for…Palm oil and pulpwood the usual suspects as Papua deforestation persists
Mar 4, 2022, 5:33 am ByJAKARTA — Pulpwood and palm oil companies were among the biggest contributors to the loss of a…Forest enterprise in Mexico attempts to present opportunities for Indigenous communities
Mar 3, 2022, 8:04 pm ByThe Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico boasts vast forests that are home to Indigenous…After IPCC climate report stresses Indigenous & local land rights 58 times, let’s respond with a concrete tenure plan (commentary)
Mar 3, 2022, 4:59 pm ByThe latest IPCC climate report mentions tenure security a whopping 58 times. This is a welcome shift…Honduras bans open-pit mining, citing environmental and public health concerns
Mar 3, 2022, 4:50 pm ByOfficials in Honduras say they are cracking down on open-pit mining, an activity that has plagued…Aerosol pollution: Destabilizing Earth’s climate and a threat to health
Mar 3, 2022, 3:50 pm ByChina has seen dynasties rise and fall over the last two millennia. Such are the vagaries of human…Banning high-deforestation palm oil has limited impact on saving forests: Study
Mar 3, 2022, 1:23 pm ByClimate protection policies restricting the import of goods produced through deforestation have…A more potent CO2 sink than the Amazon, Brazil’s mangroves remain overlooked
Mar 3, 2022, 10:56 am ByTropical forests play a fundamental role in storing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas…Revealed: Timber giant quietly converts Congo logging sites to carbon schemes
Mar 3, 2022, 10:43 am ByKISANGANI, Congo — A major European logging firm may have illegally converted more than a dozen of…Thai authorities demolish resorts in parks, but struggle to prosecute encroachers
Mar 3, 2022, 6:11 am BySince October 2020, Thailand’s national parks authority has demolished or ordered the demolition…Colombian palm oil company under investigation for polluting rivers
Mar 2, 2022, 11:36 pm ByFollowing an inspection in June 2016, Corporación Autónoma de Santander (CAS), one of the…A marine mystery unfolds with the discovery of nitrogen-fixing plankton
Mar 2, 2022, 9:05 pm ByIt was completely by accident that Chris Schvarcz and his colleagues discovered two new marine…From forest to pasture in the Amazon ft. Ana Ionova | Chasing Deforestation
Mar 2, 2022, 8:48 pm ByAutazes in the heart of Brazil’s Amazonas state is a municipality that’s six times the size of…Podcast: The Trans-Papua Highway could lose billions and deforest millions of hectares
Mar 2, 2022, 4:13 pm ByThe fourth episode in the New Guinea series of Mongabay Explores uncovers the massive Trans-Papua…Brazil’s agroforestry farmers report many benefits, but challenges remain
Mar 2, 2022, 3:57 pm BySmallholder agroforestry farmers in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest biome have observed environmental,…Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for March 2022
Mar 2, 2022, 3:30 pm ByScientists have observed yet another behavior in chimpanzees that shows the similarities between…Latest seismic survey blocked in South Africa court on fishers’ challenge
Mar 2, 2022, 2:52 pm ByFor the second time in just over two months, a South African court has acted to stop a seismic…
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