Nepali scientists deploy drones to count endangered crocodiles
Oct 4, 2018, 10:00 am By MongabayThe survey looked easy on paper. All they had to do was to go the Babai Valley in western Nepal and…Scientists urge greater protection of Brazil’s secondary forests
Oct 4, 2018, 9:03 am By MongabayWith around half the world’s forest cover cleared or otherwise degraded at some point in the…Young right whale dies, likely from entanglement in fishing gear
Oct 3, 2018, 3:36 pm By Mongabay
Entanglement in fishing gear has claimed the life of a second North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena…Identifying Zika-transmitting mosquito fast, cheaply, and on the go
Oct 3, 2018, 10:00 am By Mongabay
A team at University of Texas Austin has developed a new method for identifying whether…New tree species from Cameroon is possibly already extinct
Oct 3, 2018, 9:29 am By MongabayNearly 70 years ago, Edwin Ujor of the Nigerian Forestry Service collected a specimen of a tree from…Audio: How an African bat might help us prevent future Ebola outbreaks
Oct 2, 2018, 5:30 pm By Mongabay
On this episode, we look at research into an African bat that might be the key to controlling future…‘Guardians of the forest:’ Indigenous peoples come together to assert role in climate stability
Oct 2, 2018, 3:29 pm By MongabaySAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – A half mile from the din of the Global Climate Action Summit and its 4,000…The rhino reckoning
Oct 2, 2018, 2:18 pm By Mongabay
This is the final article in our four-part series “The Rhino Debacle.” Read Part One, Part Two…Ape sanctuaries in the DRC brace themselves as Ebola hits the country
Oct 2, 2018, 11:22 am By Mongabay
Ebola is once again sweeping Africa, this time in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where a…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
Fri 2:37pm 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
Fri 12:31pm 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
Fri 11:57am 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
Fri 9:41am By Mongabay
Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is running for re-election to the Chamber of Deputies (left), with his father…
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