In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, February 23, 2018
Feb 23, 2018, 5:11 am By MongabayTropical forests DRC reissues logging concession licenses, violating its own moratorium (Mareeg).…Making mountains out of molehills: system builds public-access big data from many sources
Feb 23, 2018, 1:24 am By MongabayWhat if we had a public library for scientific data? The proliferation of sensors monitoring the…‘Adaptation Bangladesh: Sea Level Rise’ film shows how farmers are fighting climate change
Feb 22, 2018, 12:52 pm By MongabayThis is a story of hope. Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Threatened by rising…Activists: Palm oil must not get wider access to EU under Indonesia trade talks
Feb 22, 2018, 11:18 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — Environmental activists have called for the issue of palm oil to be excluded from…Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release
Feb 22, 2018, 10:37 am By Mongabay
Looking up at the Amazon canopy in Amazonas, Brazil. Intensifying drought in the Amazon is drying…Seychelles announces two new marine protected areas the size of Great Britain
Feb 22, 2018, 6:00 am By MongabaySeychelles, a small island nation located off East Africa in the Indian Ocean, has announced the…Land plants may have evolved much earlier than we thought
Feb 21, 2018, 5:51 pm By Mongabay
A new study drastically upends conventional wisdom about when plants colonized land, pushing back…‘Photo Ark’ a quest to document global biodiversity: Q&A with photographer Joel Sartore and director Chun-Wei Yi
Feb 21, 2018, 2:53 pm By Mongabay
At turns haunting, humorous or just downright bizarre, the studio portraits of the thousands of…DJ and ornithologists create online wildlife music game
Feb 21, 2018, 2:51 pm By MongabayWildlife DJ Ben Mirin has teamed up with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Cornell Hip Hop…Audio: Exploring the minds and inner lives of animals
Feb 20, 2018, 12:57 pm By Mongabay
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with the co-author of a new book about the minds…Brazil’s fundamental pesticide law under attack
Feb 20, 2018, 11:00 am By MongabayApplying pesticides in the field. Brazil is the world’s biggest user of chemical pesticide. Photo…Study delves into overlooked community perceptions of conservation impact
Feb 20, 2018, 9:31 am By MongabayMost conservation projects today must answer a key question: How does the project affect the local…‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film
Feb 20, 2018, 8:40 am By Mongabay
The word “pygmy” conjures images of hunter-gatherers living deep in the Congo rainforest, far…Red Cloud’s Revolution: Oglalla Sioux freeing themselves from fossil fuel
Feb 19, 2018, 12:25 pm By Mongabay
Henry Red Cloud, founder of Lakota Solar and the Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center. Photo by Saul…Films celebrate big cats on World Wildlife Day
Feb 19, 2018, 11:07 am By MongabayBig cats around the world face many challenges, from diminishing prey populations and habitat…Coral reef monitoring takes to the skies: drone-mounted hyperspectral cameras help scientists assess health of coral reefs
Feb 19, 2018, 9:30 am By MongabayWhy are scientists turning to aerial images to monitor the health of ecosystems found beneath the…As Indonesia gears up for elections, activists brace for an environmental sell-off
Feb 19, 2018, 9:10 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Environmental issues in Indonesia will once again be both bargaining chip and valuable…Protected areas with deforestation more likely to lose status in Brazilian state
Feb 18, 2018, 6:23 pm By MongabayA recent study finds that when parks and reserves don’t do a good job of safeguarding the forest…Four Indonesian farmers charged in killing of orangutan that was shot 130 times
Feb 18, 2018, 4:39 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — Police in Indonesia have arrested and charged four farmers with the killing of an…Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon dropped 13 percent in 2017
Feb 16, 2018, 10:42 am By MongabayA recent analysis of satellite images gives a glimpse into Peru’s widespread deforestation in…
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