Lasers reveal steep decline in ecosystem function of degraded Amazon forests
Dec 16, 2020, 6:18 am By MongabayEvery year, growing swaths of the Amazon rainforest are degraded by logging, fragmentation, and…No endangered listing for monarch butterflies as western count hits alarming low
Dec 16, 2020, 5:28 am By MongabayThe iconic monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) meets the criteria to be listed under the U.S.…Tropical forests can take the heat, study finds. Dryness? Not so much
Dec 16, 2020, 5:18 am By MongabayThe Biosphere 2 project, run by the University of Arizona, maintains a replica of a humid tropical…An oil palm front advances on an Indigenous community in Peru
Dec 16, 2020, 1:43 am By Mongabay“The invasions do not stop, the deforestation does not stop, and the threats do not stop,” Iván…Fishing fail: WTO negotiators flunk deadline to end harmful fisheries subsidies by 2020
Dec 15, 2020, 12:13 pm By MongabayWorld Trade Organization negotiators failed to agree on rules to ban harmful subsidies to fisheries…‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle
Dec 15, 2020, 8:02 am By MongabayThere was a time when Noemí Gualinga, a leader of the Indigenous Kichwa Sarayaku people of the…‘We are part of the solution and the problem’: Q&A with author Torkjell Leira
Dec 15, 2020, 1:53 am By MongabayIn his homeland, Norwegian social geographer Torkjell Leira is known as a leading expert on Brazil.…Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study
Dec 15, 2020, 1:45 am By MongabayWhen Celso Silva Junior, a Ph.D. candidate at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE),…A forest in Sumatra disappears for farms and roads. So do its elephants
Dec 14, 2020, 10:48 am By MongabayJumar is no stranger to the presence of elephants. Having lived and farmed in the village of…Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it
Dec 14, 2020, 5:54 am By MongabayAlong with its restoration activities, the Restaura Cerrado network is also engaged in public…[Photos] Tiny frog, venomous viper among 20 new species described in Bolivia
Dec 14, 2020, 5:43 am By MongabayAn expedition into the cloud forests of the Bolivian Andes has uncovered 20 species new to science,…European money funds an Amazon dam, but affected residents haven’t seen much of it
Dec 14, 2020, 12:35 am By MongabayIt’s been more than a year since the Sinop hydroelectric dam started operations in the northern…Whale of a find: Scientists spot beaked whale believed to be a new species
Dec 11, 2020, 12:21 pm By MongabayWhen a trio of beaked whales surfaced off Mexico’s Pacific coast, researchers thought they’d…Brazil beef giants linked to illegal Amazon deforestation
Dec 11, 2020, 9:55 am By MongabayBrazil’s biggest beef companies have been directly linked to more than 17,000 hectares (42,000…It’s time to redefine business to save the planet (commentary)
Dec 11, 2020, 9:41 am By MongabayDuring the summer, we were submerged in a thick blanket of smoke in California. Being evacuated…Sri Lanka activists decry downgrade of non-protected ‘other’ forests by government
Dec 11, 2020, 3:14 am By MongabayCOLOMBO — With a single notification, Sri Lankan authorities have recently transferred the…Brazil’s blue macaws, golden lion tamarins back in traffickers’ sights
Dec 11, 2020, 2:49 am By MongabayExperts at two of Brazil’s leading wildlife conservation bodies are on high alert following a…Papua sawmill loses legal timber stamp over allegations of permit forgery
Dec 11, 2020, 12:25 am By MongabayJAKARTA — A major sawmill operation linked to widespread deforestation and corruption in Indonesia…Brazilians impacted by mining assert: ‘Genocide legalized by the state’
Dec 10, 2020, 7:42 am By MongabayThis story is the fifth in a series reporting on the legacy, current status and likely future of…Only 40% of world’s forests have high ecological integrity, a new index reveals
Dec 10, 2020, 5:53 am By MongabayOf the world’s remaining forests, only 40% are intact, with high ecological integrity, according…
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