Cerrado towns terrorized to provide toilet paper for the world, say critics
Oct 2, 2018, 11:00 am By Mongabay
Maria Sonia Silva de Carvalho and her granddaughter in their home in the traditional community of…Jakarta cancels permits for controversial bay reclamation project
Oct 2, 2018, 4:24 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — The Jakarta administration says it has finally pulled the plug on a $40 billion land…Managing the data deluge: Twitter as a tool for ecological research
Oct 1, 2018, 10:18 pm By MongabayAs early as 2009-10, researchers were looking at Twitter data mining as a way to predict the…Kenya’s Mijikenda people revive sacred homesteads to protect the forest
Oct 1, 2018, 5:17 pm By Mongabay
KILIFI COUNTY, Kenya — Dressed in blue and white traditional regalia, elders walked barefoot along…Largely banned industrial chemicals could wipe out killer whales, study warns
Oct 1, 2018, 1:06 pm By MongabayA few decades ago, most countries phased out the manufacture and use of a highly toxic group of…Purus-Madeira: journey to the Amazon’s newest deforestation frontier
Oct 1, 2018, 11:24 am By Mongabay
When we arrived in Realidade, in Amazonas state in the Madeira basin, we were received with…Ahead of election, deforestation continues to climb in the Brazilian Amazon
Sep 30, 2018, 9:12 pm By Mongabay
Newly released analysis of satellite data by Imazon, a Brazilian NGO, shows that deforestation in…Scientists urge world leaders to scale up ambitions to protect global biodiversity
Sep 28, 2018, 2:37 pm By MongabayResearch has shown that a sixth mass extinction event is underway and largely driven by human…Massive loss of mammal species in Atlantic Forest since the 1500s
Sep 28, 2018, 12:31 pm By MongabaySouth America’s Atlantic Forest was once home to an “exuberant … megadiverse” swath of…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, September 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018, 11:57 am By Mongabay
Tropical forests Scientists are using solar-powered smart devices to keep tabs on animals in Borneo…‘Predatory agribusiness’ likely to gain more power in Brazil election: report
Sep 28, 2018, 9:41 am By Mongabay
Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is running for re-election to the Chamber of Deputies (left), with his father…The great rhino U-turn
Sep 28, 2018, 7:16 am By MongabayThis is the third article in our four-part series “The Rhino Debacle.” Read Part One and Part…In an Indonesian village, scuba spearfishing is a dangerous business
Sep 27, 2018, 9:57 pm By Mongabay
SERIWE, Indonesia – Sunardi remembers the sky lit up red with sunset as he checked the bag his…Tiny tags and a broad research network help track small animal movements
Sep 27, 2018, 7:03 pm By MongabaySmall animals form the majority of animal diversity on Earth, but there are fundamental gaps in our…Latam Eco Review: Shark ceviche, bat-friendly tequila, and protein-rich worms
Sep 27, 2018, 4:45 pm By Mongabay
Recent top stories from our Spanish-language service, Mongabay-Latam, revealed Peruvians’ hidden…The tropics are widening rapidly, but humans may not be entirely to blame — yet
Sep 27, 2018, 1:19 pm By Mongabay
Scientists have observed the tropics expanding toward Earth’s poles in recent decades, which was…Traditional Kyrgyz walnut-apple forests provide map for sustainable future
Sep 27, 2018, 9:39 am By MongabayKYZL-UNKUR, Jalalabad region, Kyrgyzstan — The mountain road leading to Kyzyl-Unkur winds through…New survey results show Nepal is on track to double its tiger population by 2022
Sep 26, 2018, 4:38 pm By Mongabay
A census led by the government of Nepal has found that the tiger population in the country nearly…New species of neon-colored fish discovered off Brazil
Sep 26, 2018, 4:45 am By MongabayIn a remote part of the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil, researchers have found a stunning pink-and-white…Diversity is key to forests withstanding drought, research finds
Sep 25, 2018, 6:16 pm By MongabayResearch published in Nature last week finds that “hydraulically diverse” forests are…
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