Brazil’s ‘coconut breakers’ feel the squeeze of Cerrado development
Nov 12, 2019, 9:15 am By MongabayAccess to babassu palm trees is essential to the livelihoods of 400,000 Brazilian women, but…New honeyeater species described from Indonesia’s Alor Island
Nov 12, 2019, 6:02 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Scientists have described a new bird species found only on the Indonesian island of…Tradition and taboo keep Guinea-Bissau’s forests standing
Nov 12, 2019, 1:15 am By MongabayCOBIANA, Guinea Bissau – He remembers the first time he heard the voice of Mama Djombo. Albino…LIDAR technology leads Brazilian team to 30 story tall Amazon tree
Nov 11, 2019, 6:46 pm By MongabayIn the Jari River region of the Brazilian Amazon, red angelims appear as emergent trees, rising…Global trafficking threat catches up to Sri Lanka’s endangered pangolins
Nov 11, 2019, 2:10 pm By MongabayCOLOMBO — The same demand for pangolin scales and flesh that’s driving the animal’s decline…Fires and greenhouse gases fuel drying of the Amazon
Nov 11, 2019, 1:18 pm By MongabayThe burning of vegetation and the release of climate-warming gases into the atmosphere are…Scientists rediscover mammalian oddity in remote Vietnam
Nov 11, 2019, 11:00 am By MongabayVIETNAM, July 2019 – I’m chasing a ghost, I think not for the first time, as night falls and I…Can a national management plan halt Madagascar’s shark decline?
Nov 11, 2019, 8:00 am By MongabayMORONDAVA, Madagascar — When older people on Madagascar’s west coast were children, there were…Palm owner charged with ordering murder of two journalists in Indonesia
Nov 11, 2019, 7:25 am By MongabayMEDAN, Indonesia — Police in Indonesia have arrested five people over the death of two journalists…FSC report on palm giant Korindo lists litany of violations, even with redactions
Nov 11, 2019, 5:26 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The Forest Stewardship Council has released a batch of heavily redacted reports into its…Emperor penguins could disappear by 2100 if nations don’t cap emissions
Fri 8:02pm By MongabayIf the climate continues to change at its current pace, most emperor penguins could become extinct…Colombian town faces earthquakes, pollution, water shortage as industry expands
Fri 3:51pm By MongabayThis article is a collaboration between Rutas del Conflicto and Mongabay Latam. PUERTO GAITÁN,…Madagascar suspends activities at controversial Base Toliara mine
Fri 3:15pm By MongabayThis week the Malagasy government indefinitely suspended activities of the Base Toliara mine…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, November 8, 2019
Fri 11:20am By MongabayTropical forests Researchers have found a species of dragonfly in Costa Rica that was previously…Mischaracterizing the conservation benefits of trade (commentary)
Fri 10:10am By MongabayIn May of 2015, ten people were arrested and three charged in Yunnan, China. They had killed a…Philippine officials not spared as attacks on environmental defenders persist
Fri 9:05am By MongabayMANILA — The Philippine government has condemned the killing of an environmental official by…Coke is again the biggest culprit behind plastic waste in the Philippines
Nov 7, 2019, 3:00 pm By MongabayMANILA — In 2013, Coca-Cola Philippines released a new product for the local market: Coke Mismo,…Indonesia re-exporting illegal waste to other countries, report finds
Nov 7, 2019, 9:56 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesia earlier this year condemned the practice of wealthy countries sending it their…Healthy ecosystems, healthy humans: ‘One Health’ broadens its scope
Nov 7, 2019, 5:09 am By MongabayThe world’s most impoverished communities don’t need to be told that intact ecosystems are vital…Democratic values that protected Indonesian rainforests now need saving, too
Nov 6, 2019, 4:09 pm By MongabayThis article was produced in partnership with The Gecko Project. When Mika Ganobal, a 35-year-old…
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