For migrating songbirds, ‘baby shark’ is more than just an annoying tune
May 22, 2019, 10:04 am By MongabayDuring a routine shark survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico in 2010, ecologist Marcus Drymon caught…The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean
May 22, 2019, 9:00 am By MongabayIt’s hard to imagine how the oceans might operate without the sway of human activity. The recent…Wildlife trade summit may move to Geneva amid Colombo security concerns
May 22, 2019, 1:50 am By MongabayCOLOMBO — A month after a series of Easter Sunday bombings rocked Sri Lanka and claimed 258 lives,…World Agroforestry Congress gathers huge group of global boosters in France
May 21, 2019, 11:57 am By MongabayDay two of the World Agroforestry Congress was in full swing today as the 1,200 plus attendees…Indonesia calls on palm oil industry, obscured by secrecy, to remain opaque
May 21, 2019, 8:19 am By MongabayJAKARTA — Environmental activists in Indonesia have denounced a recent call by the government to…Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink
May 21, 2019, 6:19 am By MongabayBOKÉ, Guinea — As he looks out on a landscape devastated by bauxite mining, Lamarana Camara…Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical
May 21, 2019, 2:35 am By MongabayJust before Pope Francis released Laudato Si’, an encyclical, or formal letter from the pope, on…Bolivia: Nature rights tribunal condemns TIPNIS project
May 20, 2019, 6:18 pm By MongabayThe International Rights of Nature Tribunal has issued its ruling on the Bolivian government’s…‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president
May 20, 2019, 10:14 am By MongabayIn a country where women account for almost half of Brazil’s 900,000 native people, female…Volunteers find bones of new species of extinct heron at Florida fossil site
May 20, 2019, 9:18 am By MongabayIn November 2017, two volunteers assisting researchers of the Florida Museum of Natural History dig…Monitoring hack shines a light on fishing boats operating under cover of dark
May 17, 2019, 10:01 pm By MongabayJAKARTA — Many of the fishing vessels operating in Indonesia’s waters at night do so undetected,…Extreme weather puts traditional livelihoods in peril in Sri Lanka, studies warn
May 17, 2019, 3:23 pm By MongabayJAFFNA, Sri Lanka — For Nataraja Kumar, 47, a fisherman from Guru Nagar, a sleepy coastal village…Solomon Islanders tried to stop the logging of their forests – and may pay the price
May 17, 2019, 3:00 pm By MongabayThis is the second story in a two-part series on logging in the Solomon Islands. The first article,…A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests
May 17, 2019, 2:59 pm By MongabayHONIARA, Solomon Islands — The Solomon Islands is the biggest exporter, after Papua New Guinea, of…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 17, 2019
May 17, 2019, 11:27 am By MongabayTropical forests With around 80,000 left, koalas have been declared “functionally extinct” in…Red colobus conservation in Zanzibar: A cautiously optimistic tale
May 17, 2019, 7:24 am By MongabayThabit Masoud is proud of the work he and his colleagues have pulled off on Zanzibar. As part of the…In Indonesia, a flawed certification scheme lets illegal loggers raze away
May 16, 2019, 7:41 am By MongabayJAKARTA — A massive series of seizures of timber from rare tree species has thrown into question…’Green’ bonds finance industrial tree plantations in Brazil
May 16, 2019, 6:58 am By MongabayInvestments known as green bonds that are intended to slow climate change can finance the operation…At 2,624 years, a bald cypress is oldest known living tree in eastern North America
May 16, 2019, 6:35 am By MongabayAncient bald cypress trees tower along the Black River in the state of North Carolina in the United…Climate change may make hurricanes and cyclones deadlier, study finds
May 16, 2019, 5:15 am By MongabayWeeks after the deadly cyclone Idai tore through Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, the human toll is…
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