‘The tipping point is here, it is now,’ top Amazon scientists warn
Dec 20, 2019, 5:45 pm By MongabayA healthy intact portion of the Amazon rainforest in Pará state, Brazil. Image courtesy of…2020 ballot initiative would restore wolves to Colorado
Dec 20, 2019, 5:00 pm By MongabayEarlier this month, more than 200,000 signatures were delivered to the Colorado secretary of state…Illegal gold rush causing ‘irreversible damage’ to rivers in the Brazilian Amazon
Dec 20, 2019, 3:58 pm By MongabaySÃO FÉLIX DO XINGU – As João Inácio de Assunção’s small boat sliced through the…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, December 20, 2019
Dec 20, 2019, 11:06 am By MongabayTropical forests Cocoa production continues to cause deforestation in Ivory Coast (France 24).…Indonesia fires cost nation $5 billion this year: World Bank
Dec 20, 2019, 10:25 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Land and forest fires in Indonesia cost the country $5.2 billion in damage and economic…Ancient Sri Lankans used ‘flexible’ quartz tools to hunt primates in rainforests
Dec 20, 2019, 9:20 am By MongabaySome 45,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in the rainforests of Sri Lanka hunted down small…From seeds to forests: How one man is growing Thailand’s future
Dec 20, 2019, 7:34 am By MongabayNopporn Nontapha had always wanted to take care of forests, but this dream was initially shattered…Scales from around 50,000 pangolins seized by Chinese customs
Dec 20, 2019, 6:50 am By MongabayChinese customs officials have seized over 23 metric tons (23,000 kilograms or 50,000 pounds) of…Plan to lift baby lobster export ban draws fire in Indonesia
Dec 20, 2019, 2:00 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Environmentalists in Indonesia have lambasted the government’s plan to reopen exports…Paris accord ‘impossible to implement’ if tropical forest loss not stopped
Dec 19, 2019, 5:48 pm By MongabayIntact tropical rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay. Across the…Philippine coastal town leads war against plastic trash in Mindanao
Dec 19, 2019, 3:00 pm By MongabayDAVAO, Philippines – On August 4, 2018, a fisherman found an endangered green turtle (Chelonia…Female golden rocket frogs know a good father when they hear him
Dec 19, 2019, 1:39 pm By MongabayRain drenched a team of ecologists in the Kaieteur National Park in Guyana as they scrambled to keep…Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea
Dec 19, 2019, 12:59 pm By MongabayPORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — The upstart deforestation over the past year and a half that’s…Malaysia to let RSPO publish oil palm concession maps
Dec 19, 2019, 6:08 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The Malaysian government has decided to allow the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to…Sea turtles continue to swim in troubled waters: report
Dec 19, 2019, 12:13 am By MongabayIn myths and carvings, sea turtles are reverent creatures, carrying wisdom and worlds on their…Three pangolin species closer to extinction: IUCN
Dec 18, 2019, 8:20 pm By MongabayThe pangolin’s future looks gloomy, according to the latest update by the International Union for…Central American countries pledge to protect Mesoamerica’s ‘5 Great Forests’
Dec 18, 2019, 5:06 pm By MongabayAccording to reports, COP25, the UN climate negotiations that concluded in Madrid, Spain last week,…As pesticide approvals soar, Brazil’s tapirs, bees, other wildlife suffer
Dec 18, 2019, 4:45 pm By MongabayMonsanto Lasso herbicide to be sprayed on food crops showing proper protective gear. Photo courtesy…Microplastics may be a macro problem for the U.S. Great Plains, too, study finds
Dec 18, 2019, 4:23 pm By MongabayOver the past decade, the world has begun to realize that microscopic plastic particles infest our…Women from the Xingu Territory unite against threats from Bolsonaro administration
Dec 18, 2019, 3:24 pm By Mongabay“We don’t think about selling wood or any part of the Earth to get money. We have so many ways…
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