We know why zebras got their stripes, but how do they work?
Feb 27, 2019, 2:02 pm By Mongabay
Scientists have long wondered why zebras wear striped coats — none other than Alfred Russel…Nepal, in a bid to create a new rhino population, pauses to take stock
Feb 27, 2019, 7:35 am By MongabayTHAKURDWARA, Nepal — Staff at Bardia National Park in mid-western Nepal have been looking after a…New study finds young forests have a huge climate impact
Feb 26, 2019, 8:31 pm By MongabayForests store vast quantities of carbon and play a huge role in the world’s carbon cycle – as…Financiers to discuss hydropower as climate-change mitigation, but dams are not ‘clean energy’ (commentary)
Feb 26, 2019, 1:15 pm By Mongabay
On February 20, Nature published a comment on hydropower claiming that dams are good for the climate…Blue whales remember best times and places to find prey
Feb 26, 2019, 12:02 pm By MongabayBlue whales in the northern Pacific Ocean use their memories to guide them to the best feeding…It pays, but does it stay? Hunting in Namibia’s community conservation system
Feb 26, 2019, 8:30 am By MongabayTSUMKWE, Namibia — Just south of Tsumkwe, an isolated San settlement in northeastern Namibia, a…Is there another Javan Rhino habitat as ideal as Ujung Kulon? (Commentary)
Feb 26, 2019, 8:23 am By Mongabay
Ujung Kulon National Park is the last habitat of the Javan rhinoceros. There are only an estimated…New map shows every forest matters in helping save the Javan leopard
Feb 26, 2019, 6:47 am By Mongabay
The big cats of Java haven’t had it easy. First to vanish was the Sunda clouded leopard, a small…The odor side of otters: tech reveals species’ adaptations to human activity
Feb 25, 2019, 10:42 pm By Mongabay
Human-dominated mangroves are far from what is considered an ideal environment for otters. And yet…Will Malaysia become Southeast Asia’s clean energy leader? (commentary)
Feb 25, 2019, 11:47 am By Mongabay
A silver lining of global warming is that it is forcing every nation to rethink its future, to open…Fears of a dire precedent as Brazil seeks results-based REDD+ payment
Feb 25, 2019, 11:08 am By MongabayAlmost a decade after it was founded, the Green Climate Fund is ready to start paying tropical…Allegation of forged signature casts shadow over China-backed dam in Sumatra
Feb 25, 2019, 7:13 am By MongabayJAKARTA — An Indonesian scientist says his signature was forged to obtain a key permit…World’s largest bee filmed alive for the first time in Indonesia
Feb 25, 2019, 6:57 am By Mongabay
The last time scientists officially reported seeing a living Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile…AI and public data identifies fishing behavior to protect hungry seabirds
Feb 22, 2019, 6:19 pm By Mongabay
In a classic poem, an ancient mariner finds himself haunted by the albatross he killed. Two hundred…Latam Eco Review: Icon status for jaguars and fears over lithium mining
Feb 22, 2019, 2:46 pm By MongabayThe environmental impact of the global demand for lithium and more jaguar protection in South…Forest soils take longer to recover from fires and logging than previously thought
Feb 22, 2019, 1:33 pm By Mongabay
According to Elle Bowd, a researcher with Australian National University’s Fenner School of…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, February 22, 2019
Feb 22, 2019, 10:43 am By Mongabay
Tropical forests A doctoral student in India discovered a new frog species in a puddle (The…Stunting, loss of earning potential linked to Indonesia’s 1997 wildfires
Feb 22, 2019, 10:31 am By Mongabay
It was 1997, and while record fires were raging across Indonesia a new socio-economic crisis may…Research into chimp health benefits human, ecosystem well-being too
Feb 22, 2019, 7:37 am By MongabayChimpanzees’ health is not just an issue of concern for conservationists or animal rights…Indonesian minister blasted over palm permit for graft-tainted concession
Feb 22, 2019, 6:40 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency has joined a growing chorus of criticism against a…
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