Meet the new species of venomous pit viper described from India
May 9, 2019, 9:22 am By MongabayWhen Rohan Pandit and Wangchu Phiang accidentally stumbled upon a brown snake on a steep slope of a…Amid aquaculture boom, report guides investors toward sustainability
May 8, 2019, 7:40 pm By MongabayAquaculture, the commercial farming of finfish like salmon, shellfish and seaweed, has exploded over…Two-thirds of Earth’s longest rivers no longer free-flowing
May 8, 2019, 4:32 pm By MongabayA first-of-its-kind analysis of Earth’s longest rivers found that they have been severely degraded…Dismantling of Brazilian environmental protections gains pace
May 8, 2019, 12:38 pm By MongabayDeforestation perpetrated by illegal loggers in Jamanxim National Forest in Pará state, Brazil.…New map shows warming waters where coral reefs could be under threat
May 8, 2019, 9:52 am By MongabayThe ocean is increasingly becoming too hot to handle. And coral reefs are suffering as a result.…Counting on eDNA for a faster, easier way to count coral
May 8, 2019, 9:31 am By MongabayFaster and cheaper Surveying and studying coral takes a lot of work. It’s usually done manually,…‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam
May 8, 2019, 6:42 am By MongabayRitidian, a cliff-top refuge on the island of Guam, is one of the last places in the Pacific where…What we learned from two years of investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia
May 8, 2019, 2:55 am By MongabayJust over two years ago, The Gecko Project and Mongabay set out to investigate the hidden story…Climate change is causing marine species to disappear from their habitat twice as fast as land animals
May 7, 2019, 4:57 pm By MongabayNew research finds that marine animals have disappeared from their habitat due to global warming at…Historic win by Ecuador’s Waorani could re-shape extraction activities
May 7, 2019, 12:53 pm By MongabayQUITO, Ecuador — The indigenous Waorani community in Ecuador won a historic lawsuit against the…’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds
May 7, 2019, 11:15 am By MongabayLife on this planet, in all its wide diversity, is disappearing more quickly now than it has at any…In Ethiopia, a community leans on customs to save an antelope from extinction
May 6, 2019, 1:31 pm By MongabaySENKELE, Ethiopia — In the tall-grass woodland of the Great Rift Valley in southern Ethiopia lies…China, EU, US trading with Brazilian firms fined for Amazon deforestation: report
May 6, 2019, 1:09 pm By MongabayCattle ranching is the primary cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon today, with much of…Radio drama encourages Belizean fishers to follow the rules
May 6, 2019, 12:37 pm By Mongabay“Punta Fuego, good evening.” The smooth voice of DJ Armin Arana emanates from the radio on…‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique
May 6, 2019, 12:21 pm By MongabayThe ‘landscape of fear’ is not a new term among biologists. From the now-iconic study of how elk…Most communities not seeing promised oil palm payoff in Borneo, study finds
May 6, 2019, 8:36 am By MongabayThe promise of jobs and prosperity often helps palm oil companies convince skeptical local…All you need is human feces: The strange world of dung beetle sampling
May 6, 2019, 6:41 am By MongabayAll you need to find out how many dung beetles survive in a damaged rainforest is a plastic cup, a…Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm
May 3, 2019, 1:00 pm By MongabayA worker’s hands injured by long hours of coffee harvesting. Image by Lilo Clareto / Repórter…When losing your soil means losing your livelihood (commentary)
May 3, 2019, 11:40 am By MongabayIn Niger, where agriculture is the main source of income, the message is simple: Losing your soil…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 3, 2019
May 3, 2019, 11:30 am By MongabayTropical forests A poacher-turned-ranger now protects the unique wildlife of the Leuser Ecosystem in…
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