COP24: Sitting down to take a stand for real climate action
Dec 15, 2018, 7:21 am By Mongabay
KATOWICE, Poland — It’s noon on a Friday in the city of Katowice, Poland, and a teenage girl…Dutch banks’ customers ‘unknowingly’ profit from palm oil companies
Dec 15, 2018, 12:32 am By MongabayDutch banks ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank are failing to inform their customers that investment funds…Hobby-grade drones above can monitor marine animals beneath the surface
Dec 14, 2018, 2:44 pm By Mongabay
Using drones for wildlife surveys isn’t new to marine wildlife research, but it’s been focused…‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book
Dec 14, 2018, 2:19 pm By MongabayFrom 2016 to 2017, Mongabay contributors Sue Branford and Maurício Torres traveled to the Tapajós…Madagascar auctioning a large swath of virgin waters for oil exploration
Dec 14, 2018, 1:50 pm By Mongabay
At an oil industry event in Houston in September, representatives of Madagascar’s government went…COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris
Dec 14, 2018, 11:42 am By MongabayPresident-elect Jair Bolsonaro pretends to shoot a gun, a signature gesture he uses to punctuate a…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, December 14, 2018
Dec 14, 2018, 11:21 am By MongabayTropical forests By keeping pests in check, bats could help farmers in Madagascar, reducing the need…Argentina creates two new marine parks to protect penguins, sea lions
Dec 14, 2018, 8:47 am By MongabayArgentina has officially created two large marine protected areas: the Yaganes Marine National Park,…Palm oil giant Wilmar promises to take harder line with errant suppliers
Dec 14, 2018, 6:53 am By MongabayThe world’s biggest palm oil trader has updated its sustainability policy, as its self-imposed…COP24: Fossil Fuel Inc.’s outsize presence at talks reflects its influence
Dec 14, 2018, 6:08 am By MongabayKATOWICE, Poland — “How did you get here?” asked the angry fossil fuel company executive.…Indonesian court throws out lawsuit against green expert’s testimony
Dec 13, 2018, 11:18 pm By Mongabay
JAKARTA — An Indonesian court has thrown out a lawsuit against an environmental expert whose…One map to rule them all: Indonesia launches unified land-use chart
Dec 13, 2018, 10:54 pm By MongabayJAKARTA — The Indonesian government has published a long-awaited map that, for the first time,…Satellite trackers help fight vultures’ extinction in southern Africa
Dec 13, 2018, 3:01 pm By Mongabay
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Every other hour, Sonja Krüger logs onto her website and checks the…Dam drove ‘collapse’ of rainforest bird populations in Thailand
Dec 13, 2018, 2:32 pm By Mongabay
The construction of a hydroelectric dam in Thailand in the 1980s devastated the area’s wild birds,…Super-spreaders: How the curious life of a newt could ignite a pandemic
Dec 13, 2018, 1:47 pm By MongabayIf you take a stroll in the woods, it’s worth pausing for a moment to take in the sights and…COP24: World’s nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb
Dec 13, 2018, 1:34 pm By Mongabay
The handfuls of wood pellets and the green sleeves seen here are part of a widespread, biomass…Global agreement on ‘conserved areas’ marks new era of conservation (commentary)
Dec 13, 2018, 1:09 pm By MongabayOn November 29, 2018, the 196 Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a…From a new bird to a new community reserve: India’s tribe sets example
Dec 13, 2018, 10:02 am By MongabayOther stories in this four-part series on the indigenous groups living around Eaglenest Wildlife…A Zambian sanctuary finds caring for chimps is a lifetime commitment
Dec 13, 2018, 7:42 am By MongabayCOPPERBELT, Zambia — Thirty-five years ago, a game ranger in Zambia confiscated a baby chimpanzee…COP24: Tropical deforestation risks undermining 1.5-degree warming limit
Dec 13, 2018, 6:15 am By MongabayKATOWICE, Poland — The world has just 12 years left to halve greenhouse gas emissions to prevent…
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