Small-scale farming is a big threat to biodiversity in the western Amazon: Study
Jul 24, 2019, 4:01 pm By MongabaySmallholder farming poses a significant threat to biodiversity in the western Amazonian forests of…New roads in Papua New Guinea may cause ‘quantum leap’ in forest loss
Jul 24, 2019, 2:21 pm By MongabayPapua New Guinea hopes to nearly double the length of its road network by 2022, posing grave threats…Protecting Antarctica beyond 2041: an interview with polar explorer Robert Swan
Jul 24, 2019, 12:31 am By MongabayExplorer Robert Swan is the first person to walk to both the North and South Poles unassisted. Those…Building a global inventory of plants: Q&A with botanist Patrick Weigelt
Jul 23, 2019, 11:09 pm By MongabayFor more than 200 years, naturalists, adventurers, explorers and plant hunters have navigated the…Audio: David Quammen on ecological restoration, emerging diseases, evolutionary science, and more
Jul 23, 2019, 7:33 pm By MongabayToday we speak with award-winning science writer, author, and journalist David Quammen about some of…Secretive and colorful dryas monkey isn’t as rare as once thought
Jul 23, 2019, 5:46 pm By MongabayOn a July day in 2014, biologists Henri Silegowa and Jean Pierre Kapale were buying rice in Bafundo,…Top court holds Indonesian government liable over 2015 forest fires
Jul 23, 2019, 7:08 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesia’s highest court has upheld a ruling holding the government, including the…When it comes to captive breeding, not all Sumatran rhinos are equal
Jul 23, 2019, 12:54 am By MongabayIn November 2018, a small female Sumatran rhino plunged into a pit trap in Kalimantan, the…Making room for wild foods in forest conservation
Jul 22, 2019, 3:44 pm By MongabayEarlier this year, the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet and Health published its version of a…Newly described pocket shark likely glows in the dark
Jul 22, 2019, 12:24 pm By MongabayIn 2010, researchers surveying the eastern Gulf of Mexico to study what sperm whales eat, collected…Indonesia, facing a waste crisis, plans to burn it for electricity
Jul 22, 2019, 12:14 pm By MongabayJAKARTA — The Indonesian government plans to burn waste to fuel power plants in four cities on the…Fears over Indonesian president’s demand for unfettered investment
Jul 22, 2019, 10:14 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Environmental activists say they fear for what’s left of Indonesia’s tropical…Cocoa and gunshots: The struggle to save a threatened forest in Nigeria
Jul 19, 2019, 7:53 pm By MongabayLAGOS, Nigeria — Emmanuel Olabode stands over the fire at the Eri camp in Omo Forest Reserve, in…Conservation tech prize with invasive species focus announces finalists
Jul 19, 2019, 3:59 pm By MongabayThe Con X Tech Prize just announced its second round will be funding 20 finalists each with $3,500…New initiative aims to jump-start stalled drive toward zero deforestation
Jul 19, 2019, 2:19 pm By MongabayIn 2010, some 400 companies grouped under the Consumer Goods Forum agreed to the goal of achieving…June 2019 was the hottest month on record: NOAA
Jul 19, 2019, 12:48 pm By MongabayJune 2019 was the hottest month recorded in the 140 years since the US National Oceanic and…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, July 19, 2019
Jul 19, 2019, 11:43 am By MongabayTropical forests Small oil palm farmers in Peru are supplying huge companies like Nestlé with their…Corrupt police caught in bust of Peruvian Amazon drug gang
Jul 19, 2019, 10:49 am By MongabayOn June 23, three police officers in Peru were arrested and now stand accused of providing security…The ambitious plan to recover and rewild the feisty, dwarf cow
Jul 19, 2019, 7:15 am By MongabayDon’t let appearances fool you. The animal pictured above — the dwarf cattle known as tamaraw…Congo government opens Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park to oil exploration
Jul 18, 2019, 6:47 pm By MongabayThe government of the Republic of Congo has, according to its own maps, opened up new areas for oil…
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