In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, April 26, 2019
Apr 26, 2019, 11:08 am By Mongabay
Tropical forests The governor of Nigeria’s Cross River state plans to move forward with the…That Madagascan forest featured in Netflix’s ‘Our Planet’? It’s vanishing fast
Apr 26, 2019, 6:31 am By Mongabay
Viewers inspired by Netflix’s new series “Our Planet” to explore the stunning landscapes it…Ocean winds, wave heights have increased around the world
Apr 25, 2019, 2:20 pm By Mongabay
An analysis of 33 years’ worth of data finds that ocean winds and wave heights are becoming more…Survey: Less coal, more solar, say citizens of Belt & Road countries
Apr 25, 2019, 11:07 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — Citizens of countries participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI,…Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands
Apr 25, 2019, 10:10 am By Mongabay
In February, a Mongabay reporting team travelled to the Brazilian Amazon, spending time with the…Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world’s rarest birds
Apr 25, 2019, 9:38 am By Mongabay
In 1995, there were only 51 kākāpō left on Earth, and it seemed that the giant flightless parrots…Indonesia electricity chief charged with bribery over coal-fired power plant
Apr 25, 2019, 6:28 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Investigators in Indonesia have charged the head of the state-owned power utility with…Killer whale vs. great white? No contest — the shark always flees
Apr 25, 2019, 1:35 am By Mongabay
In the ocean, both the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and the killer whale or orca…The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018
Apr 25, 2019, 1:14 am By Mongabay
At first glance, the news seems good: tropical deforestation declined for the second year in a row,…‘Judas’ snakes lead scientists on a high-tech Easter egg hunt for pythons
Apr 24, 2019, 5:09 pm By Mongabay
Remember that 3-meter (17-foot) pregnant Burmese python recently captured by wildlife authorities in…Bolsonaro draws battle lines in fight over Amazon indigenous lands
Apr 24, 2019, 10:29 am By Mongabay
Benito Miquiles, a Sateré man. Image by Matheus Manfredini In February, a Mongabay reporting team…Not in my backyard: Indonesian official fights corrupt palm concession
Apr 24, 2019, 9:24 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — A local official in Indonesia has mounted a non-legal challenge against the national…In Indonesia, a paper giant shuffles a litany of land conflicts
Apr 24, 2019, 9:04 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — One of the world’s biggest paper producers has left a trail of conflicts in its…Indonesia trains its citizens to deal with sea-mammal strandings
Apr 24, 2019, 8:25 am By Mongabay
DENPASAR/JAKARTA — In November 2017, when locals spotted 10 sperm whales stranded on a beach on…Bird flu in Namibia’s penguins wanes, after killing nearly 500
Apr 24, 2019, 6:58 am By Mongabay
For more than three months, penguins living off the coast of Namibia have been battling an outbreak…Virus may have caused mysterious foot disease in Chile’s rare huemul deer
Apr 24, 2019, 2:40 am By Mongabay
Between 2005 and 2010, 24 huemul deer in Chile’s Bernardo O’Higgins National Park developed a…Can rice husk briquettes stem the tide of mangrove deforestation in Myanmar?
Apr 23, 2019, 5:33 pm By Mongabay
IRRAWADDY DELTA, Myanmar — For many in Myanmar, Cyclone Nargis was a wake-up call. When it made…Camera trap study finds a threatened high-elevation mammal community in Peru
Apr 23, 2019, 4:26 pm By Mongabay
Due to their remoteness, the high-altitude tropical forests of the Cerros del Sira, an isolated…Less rainforest, less rain: A cautionary tale from Borneo
Apr 23, 2019, 8:10 am By Mongabay
If you flew over the island of Borneo in 1950, you would see nearly unbroken, untouched forest from…Report finds World Bank’s coal divestment pledge not stringent enough
Apr 23, 2019, 8:09 am By Mongabay
Indonesia provides a litmus test for the World Bank’s commitment to divest from coal, with a…
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