Every sea turtle in global study found to have synthetic fibers and microplastics in their guts
Dec 21, 2018, 2:41 pm By Mongabay
A recent study found microplastics in the intestines of humans around the globe, and new research…Essential ubiquity: How one tiny salamander species has a huge impact
Dec 21, 2018, 2:33 pm By Mongabay
The red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) is a creature of Earth, although a brief physical…What makes a forest healthy? Māori knowledge has some answers.
Dec 21, 2018, 12:49 pm By Mongabay
Read other stories in this three-part profile of the Ruatāhuna community’s stewardship of its…Ten years on, Amazon Fund receives applause, criticism, faces new tests
Dec 21, 2018, 12:42 pm By Mongabay
IPAM, the Amazon Environmental Research Institute an NGO, was granted Amazon Fund resources for a…Social media, e-commerce sites facilitate illegal orchid trade
Dec 21, 2018, 11:52 am By MongabayReports of illegal trafficking in elephant ivory or rhino horn abound, but plants are actually more…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, December 21, 2018
Dec 21, 2018, 11:30 am By Mongabay
Tropical forests Dutch logging company Wijma has shuttered a sawmill in Cameroon amid concerns about…DNA test helps officials spot dodgy shark shipments
Dec 21, 2018, 11:21 am By MongabayA multi-national research team has developed a rapid DNA identification method to help customs…The female park rangers protecting turtles from traffickers in Nicaragua
Dec 21, 2018, 10:22 am By MongabayThe lights draw uncertain lines under the blanket of stars that joins the sea to the sky at El…Conservation officers forced online in fight against bird trafficking
Dec 20, 2018, 6:26 pm By Mongabay
MAKASSAR, Indonesia — “Hi, This is Kamaruddin calling in, just parking my car.” “Great, go…Illegal mining in the Amazon “not comparable to any other period of its history”
Dec 20, 2018, 2:08 pm By MongabayIllegal mining has become an “epidemic” in the Amazon rainforest, destroying naturally protected…Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement
Dec 20, 2018, 11:27 am By MongabaySign reading: Cursed are all fences for stopping us living and loving. Image by Mariel Mitsu.…Indonesia attack shines a light on controversial road project
Dec 20, 2018, 10:24 am By MongabayViolence in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua has stalled a massive infrastructure project…Investors told to wise up over cost of environmental crime
Dec 20, 2018, 10:04 am By Mongabay
Companies and their investors are exposing themselves to massive legal and financial risks…Peccary’s disappearance foreboding for other Mesoamerican wildlife
Dec 20, 2018, 8:19 am By MongabayThe white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), a hairy, pig-like mammal that once lived throughout the…Scarlet macaws stalked by wildlife traffickers in Guatemala
Dec 20, 2018, 7:48 am By Mongabay
Travel the pathways of what was once the Mayan world, and you’ll see images of the scarlet macaw,…The long journey to saving the Sumatran rhino, via Borneo (commentary)
Dec 20, 2018, 3:11 am By MongabayIn 1982, an orangutan researcher working in Indonesian Borneo wrote to a colleague at the biology…Deforestation and mining threaten a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico
Dec 19, 2018, 6:54 pm By MongabayZitácuaro, Mexico – “As long as the butterflies keep coming, we’ll still have work here,”…The true story of how 96 endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived a New York City beach
Dec 19, 2018, 4:54 pm By MongabayJuly 12 saw highs in the mid-80s in New York City this year — a typically hot, muggy NYC summer…‘Death by a thousand holes’: Scientists race to avert a salamander crisis
Dec 19, 2018, 4:28 pm By Mongabay
Any day now. That’s when Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), the “salamander-eating”…PNG farmers use agroforestry to fight crop diseases and reduce labor
Dec 19, 2018, 4:10 pm By MongabayLAE, Papua New Guinea — Across the more than 600 islands that make up Papua New Guinea, the…
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