New species of venomous snake discovered by accident in Australia
Jul 17, 2018, 6:33 am By MongabayA team of biologists researching sea snakes in the mining town of Weipa in Australia’s remote Cape…Peru: A decade-long quest to protect the world’s largest tropical glacier
Jul 17, 2018, 5:31 am By MongabayThe Quelccaya Ice Cap is perched 5,600 meters (18,400 feet) above sea level in the Peruvian Andes.…EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds
Jul 17, 2018, 4:51 am By MongabayLax due diligence by European companies is driving the illegal harvest of timber in Ukraine, one of…‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells
Jul 17, 2018, 4:46 am By MongabayKUCHING, Malaysia — As governments in Southeast Asia target economic growth through…Bold initiative aims to protect coral reefs in the Dominican Republic
Jul 16, 2018, 6:41 pm By MongabayCoral polyps in the Dominican Republic. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org. The islands and atolls…Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge
Jul 16, 2018, 1:53 pm By Mongabay
Australia’s Murray Darling basin covers more than a million square kilometers, 14 percent of the…Protecting PNG’s oceans: Q&A with marine activist John Aini
Jul 16, 2018, 1:49 pm By MongabayKUCHING, Malaysia — For generations, the people of Papua New Guinea’s northeasternmostprovince,…Soy giant Louis Dreyfus pledges deforestation-free supply chain
Jul 16, 2018, 6:00 am By MongabayA Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) grain and oilseeds processing facility and warehouse in Brazil. LDC…Mangroves and their deforestation may emit more methane than we thought
Jul 13, 2018, 3:47 pm By MongabayMangroves, the dense tangled forests that buffer land from sea in many coastal areas of the tropics,…New research proposes solutions for reducing environmental costs of feeding Earth’s 7.6-billion human population
Jul 13, 2018, 1:23 pm By MongabayResearchers at Oxford University in the UK and Agroscope, a Swiss agricultural research institute,…Angry farmers set fire to offices of Madagascar eco group, gov’t agency
Jul 13, 2018, 12:55 pm By Mongabay
What began with a rare instance of aggressive enforcement of Madagascar’s environmental laws last…Scientists urge Indonesian president to nix dam in orangutan habitat
Jul 13, 2018, 12:23 pm By Mongabay
JAKARTA — Twenty-five of the world’s top environmental scientists have lambasted plans to…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, July 13, 2018
Jul 13, 2018, 11:27 am By MongabayWe’ve collected a few stories that were published this week by other news outlets. Tropical…After devastating floods in 2013, an Indian state ignores the lessons
Jul 13, 2018, 10:21 am By MongabayUTTARAKHAND, India — H.P. Upreti, an ex-serviceman, vividly recalls the day, five years ago, when…Another Cecil? Secrecy surrounds June trophy lion hunt
Jul 13, 2018, 10:14 am By MongabaySkye, a beloved South African lion, has gone missing. Image © WILDAFRICAPTURE.COM / Charlie Lynam.…Latam Eco Review: Spectacled bears in the spotlight
Jul 13, 2018, 8:19 am By MongabayAmong the most read stories at our Spanish-language service, Mongabay-Latam, this past week were…Madagascar’s native fauna defenseless against toxic invasive toads
Jul 13, 2018, 6:35 am By MongabayMadagascar is facing an invasion. Not military, but amphibian. Toxic Asian common toads…Salamanders have ‘tricks up their sleeves’ for weathering climate change
Jul 12, 2018, 9:35 pm By MongabayRising temperatures and drying air pose problems for plants and animals around the planet.…Extractive industries threaten a million square kilometers of intact tropical forests around the globe
Jul 12, 2018, 2:52 pm By Mongabay
According to a recent report, mining companies currently have claims on 11 percent of all intact…‘Decolonizing conservation’: Q&A with PNG marine activist John Aini
Jul 12, 2018, 1:46 pm By Mongabay
KUCHING, Malaysia — In 1993, fisheries scientist John Aini founded the conservation group Ailan…
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