Elephant seal native to Antarctica spotted for first time in tropical Sri Lanka
Nov 26, 2019, 12:29 pm By MongabayCOLOMBO — Uthpala Adaranga, a ranger with Sri Lanka’s Department of Wildlife Conservation…Watchdog denounces arrests of four anti-mining activists in Indonesia
Nov 26, 2019, 10:20 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Police in Indonesia have arrested four people in two separate cases over their…Bringing back extinct plants to life: Q&A with ‘plant messiah’ Carlos Magdalena
Nov 26, 2019, 9:04 am By MongabayCarlos Magdalena lives and breathes plants. He’s obsessed with them. But he also understands why…Guyana refutes findings that deforestation skyrocketed after REDD+ payments stopped
Nov 25, 2019, 3:19 pm By MongabayA landmark five-year, $250-million pay-for-performance agreement between wealthy, oil-rich Norway…Beyond strikes: For these youths, climate activism starts at home
Nov 25, 2019, 2:28 pm By MongabayNineteen-year-old Pornchita Fahpratanprai had never participated in a climate strike before. High up…Why you should care about the current wave of mass extinctions (commentary)
Nov 25, 2019, 2:04 pm By MongabayThe scientific imprimatur fell on us just six months ago: Yes, the extinction crisis we are…Female gorillas recognize and respond to contagious disease
Nov 25, 2019, 12:20 pm By MongabaySalt clearings deep in the Congo basin host numerous breeding groups of Western lowland gorillas…Rapid genetic test traces spread of fungus that kills frogs, reveals new strain in Southeast Asia
Nov 25, 2019, 11:28 am By MongabayProtecting frogs against the invisible killer called chytrid was never going to be easy. The fungus…Brazil sugarcane growth can meet biofuel need and not drive deforestation: study
Nov 25, 2019, 11:08 am By MongabayA sugarcane plantation in Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Photo credit: CIFOR on Visual Hunt / CC…Experts blame Bolsonaro for surge in deforestation, warn of worse to come
Nov 25, 2019, 10:42 am By MongabayThe highest rate of destruction of the Brazilian Amazon in over a decade is likely to worsen through…Malaysia’s last Sumatran rhino dies, leaving Indonesia as the final refuge
Nov 25, 2019, 7:54 am By MongabayThe Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is now extinct in Malaysia following the death of…Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows
Nov 25, 2019, 5:58 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Fires from land and forest fires across Indonesia this year have pumped at least 708…Amazonian tree with human-sized leaves finally gets ID’d as new species
Nov 22, 2019, 2:28 pm By MongabayAt the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil, a framed exhibit of a…Voyager I tanker identified as possible Brazil oil spill perpetrator
Nov 22, 2019, 12:13 pm By MongabayThe Voyager I tanker, which Federal University of Alagoas researchers have implicated in the oil…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, November 22, 2019
Nov 22, 2019, 11:02 am By MongabayTropical forests Youth activists came together in the Amazon to strategize on how to combat climate…Coal spill bedevils Indonesian beach more than a year later
Nov 22, 2019, 8:03 am By MongabayBANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Nearly a year and a half ago, a barge hit by high waves spilled an…Tree-planting programs turn to tech solutions to track effectiveness
Nov 22, 2019, 6:58 am By MongabayROCHESTER, New York and RANOMAFANA NATIONAL PARK, Madagascar — Tom Snyder wants to change the way…Madagascar’s bold reforestation goal lacks a coherent plan, experts say
Nov 22, 2019, 6:46 am By MongabayRANOMAFANA and ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — While many U.S. travelers dream of the fabled forests of…Meet the new parasitic wasp species named ‘Idris elba’
Nov 21, 2019, 4:40 pm By MongabayBritish actor Idris Elba has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy…Amazon trees may absorb far less carbon than previously thought: study
Nov 21, 2019, 1:02 pm By MongabayThe Amazon’s 30-million-year-old soils were never subjected to ice age glaciers, making most…
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