Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)
Mar 5, 2018, 10:52 am By MongabayThe Amazon cloud factory. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay In Brazil during the 1970s, when the…In eastern Indonesia, a forest tribe pushes back against miners and loggers
Mar 5, 2018, 10:17 am By Mongabay
HALMAHERA, Indonesia — Deep in the lush rainforests of Halmahera Island, in the far-flung eastern…Epic battle between tiger and sloth bear caught on film
2:16pm By MongabayA naturalist at an ecotourism lodge in India has captured footage of a battle between a tiger and a…Penguin mega-colony discovered using satellites and drones, raising scientists’ hopes
1:15pm By MongabayScientists have discovered a ‘supercolony’ of Adélie penguins in Antarctica’s remote Danger…Last of its kind: sole surviving male northern white rhino is gravely ill
11:56am By MongabayThe world’s sole surviving male northern white rhino is gravely ill, reports Kenya’s Ol Pejeta…Mangrove deforestation releases more CO2 than Poland, study finds
Fri 7:57pm By MongabaySeemingly nondescript messes of tangled branches and exposed roots, mangrove forests cling to the…Drone photography allows scientists to measure marine mammals without a catch
Fri 1:35pm By MongabayScientists in Antarctica recently tested a novel technique to measure the body size and mass of…ICAO and forest offsets: Substantial opportunities and exceptional benefits (commentary)
Fri 1:03pm By MongabayIf aviation emissions were counted as those of a separate country, that country would be ranked as a…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, March 2, 2018
Fri 12:30pm By MongabayTropical forests Rangers key to saving forest-rich national park in the Congo Basin (WWF).…New thumbnail-sized pygmy squid discovered in Australia
Fri 12:53am By Mongabay
Scientists have just described a new species of “pygmy squid” the size of a thumbnail. The tiny…Judge OKs waiving environmental laws to build U.S.-Mexico border wall
Mar 1, 2018, 5:21 pm By Mongabay
On Tuesday, a federal judge in California ruled that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security did…Brazil high court Forest Code ruling largely bad for environment, Amazon: NGOs
Mar 1, 2018, 12:35 pm By MongabayThe Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay In what many consider Brazil’s…Pepsi cuts off Indonesian palm oil supplier over labor, sustainability concerns
Mar 1, 2018, 11:05 am By MongabayJAKARTA — PepsiCo has suspended its business with Indofood Agri Resources (IndoAgri), one of the…‘S.O.S.’ carved out of former plantation shines a light on palm oil-driven deforestation
Mar 1, 2018, 10:50 am By MongabayJAKARTA — An artist working with environmental activists has carved out a distress call from a…Javan rhino population holds steady amid ever-present peril
Mar 1, 2018, 10:48 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — The Javan rhinoceros, one of the world’s most endangered species, continues to…Watch: James Watt, the farmer who challenged a palm oil fiefdom
Mar 1, 2018, 8:06 am By MongabayWe met James Watt in his home village of Bangkal during the reporting of “The palm oil fiefdom,”…Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon
Feb 28, 2018, 1:06 pm By MongabayThe Marañón River flows though the Peruvian Andes, and is a major Amazon River tributary. The…Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo
Feb 28, 2018, 9:36 am By Mongabay
A court in the Republic of Congo has convicted three men of killing elephants for their tusks, and…New study: Radar reveals bats are a bellwether of climate change
Feb 28, 2018, 8:53 am By MongabayScientists know that bats boost the profits of farmers by fertilizing crops and keeping hungry…Vanishing species deserve our few cents (commentary)
Feb 27, 2018, 3:17 pm By MongabayAs a conservation scientist, people often ask me, “What can I do to help save vanishing…
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