From a Sri Lankan rainforest, a new species of orchid blooms
May 1, 2020, 11:27 am By MongabayCOLOMBO — A rare new orchid described from a tropical lowland rainforest in Sri Lanka now bears…Satellite imagery is helping to detect plastic pollution in the ocean
May 1, 2020, 3:34 am By MongabayIn 2018, Lauren Biermann was scouring a satellite image of the ocean off the coast of the Isle of…COVID-19 no excuse for dropping guard against illegal fishing, Indonesia says
May 1, 2020, 12:03 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Fishers are taking advantage of a perceived drop in enforcement amid the COVID-19 crisis…No tourism income, but this Philippine community still guards its environment
Apr 30, 2020, 7:44 pm By MongabayPALAWAN, Philippines — On a sweltering morning in April, park manager Jose Mazo mans a motorized…Healing the world through ‘radical listening’: Q&A with Dr. Kinara Webb
Apr 30, 2020, 6:51 pm By MongabayDr. Kinari Webb believes this because she has witnessed it — up close: Amid this global pandemic,…Young Nigerian researcher goes to bat against forest fires
Apr 30, 2020, 5:07 pm By MongabayAs she peered into the collection chamber of her harp trap, Iroro Tanshi instinctively knew she had…‘We are invisible’: Brazilian Cerrado quilombos fight for land and lives
Apr 30, 2020, 4:19 pm By MongabayMaryellen Crisóstomo de Almeida, a journalist and member of the Baião quilombo, explains the…South Korea subsidizing biomass so heavily that wind and solar are being crowded out of the market
Apr 30, 2020, 3:40 pm By MongabayThe government of South Korea is subsidizing the development of biomass power so heavily that it’s…Murder, logging and land theft: inside a crime factory in the Amazon
Apr 30, 2020, 11:13 am By MongabayThere’s only one consensus among big and small in the bloody battle for land at Seringal São…China held water back from drought-stricken Mekong countries, report says
Apr 30, 2020, 10:45 am By MongabayLast year, while parts of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and southern Vietnam experienced a devastating…A ‘crazy beast’ that coexisted with dinosaurs discovered from Madagascar
Apr 30, 2020, 9:32 am By MongabayA 66-million-year-old fossil has allowed scientists to describe a bizarre new species of mammal that…For world’s rarest great ape, COVID-19 is latest in a litany of threats
Apr 30, 2020, 7:44 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The COVID-19 pandemic has become the latest threat to the Tapanuli orangutan in…Tourism has crashed: Are carbon credits the future for funding conservation in Africa?
Apr 29, 2020, 10:45 pm By MongabayThe abrupt collapse of tourism due to the coronavirus pandemic has again highlighted the inadequacy…As a campaigner against deforestation, almost dying of COVID-19 was ironic (commentary)
Apr 29, 2020, 6:57 pm By MongabayI have been sick with COVID-19. When I started writing this, holed up in my New York apartment, I…Climate change makes some fish smaller, and others bigger, study finds
Apr 29, 2020, 3:47 pm By MongabayClimate change is doing something unusual to the fish in our oceans: As water temperatures rise,…Evicted indigenous people in Manaus struggle to stay safe amid COVID-19 crisis
Apr 29, 2020, 2:42 pm By MongabayFor three years, Anne Kokama made a living on a small piece of land where she planted cassava and…Birds in Amazon forest fragments: New study summarizes 40 years of research
Apr 29, 2020, 2:42 pm By MongabayA royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus). Photo by Philip Stouffer For the past 40 years,…One point for Slytherin: New Indian pit viper named after Harry Potter character
Apr 29, 2020, 1:30 pm By MongabaySalazar’s pit viper (Trimeresurus Salazar). Photo courtesy of Zeeshan A. Mirza A new green pit…Rwanda’s Akagera park thrives thanks to community-led anti-poaching drive
Apr 29, 2020, 11:55 am By MongabayThe first time Bugingo Gaspard illegally entered Akagera National Park in Rwanda, he was 10 years…In Panama, agroforestry technique of silvopasture improves ranching traditions
Apr 29, 2020, 11:03 am By MongabayLOS ASIENTOS, Panama — It was auction day in the town of Santiago, and ranchers from the region…
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