Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many
Mar 26, 2018, 12:27 pm By MongabayCargill soy silos are both a symbol and a source of the prosperity of the city of Luis Eduardo…Local conservancies create new hope for wildlife in Kenya’s Maasai Mara (commentary)
Mar 26, 2018, 11:19 am By MongabaySet amid the open plains and rolling savannas of Kenya’s Maasai Mara landscape, Naboisho…In Jakarta, wildlife monitors find a hotspot for the illegal tortoise trade
Mar 26, 2018, 10:43 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The sale of some of the most threatened tortoise and turtle species from around the…Tech and collaboration are putting indigenous land rights on the map
Mar 26, 2018, 10:00 am By MongabayDwarfed both in size and fame by the Amazon rainforest, the Gran Chaco, South America’s second…Study reveals that the Pacific Garbage Patch much heftier than thought — and it’s growing
Mar 26, 2018, 9:37 am By MongabayThe great mass of castaway plastic collecting in the northern Pacific Ocean is much larger than past…How Indonesia’s Seruyan district became an epicenter of fires and haze
Mar 26, 2018, 7:26 am By MongabayIn the leadup to the release of the second installment of Indonesia for Sale, our series examining…“Save the Krill” urges Greenpeace report
Mar 23, 2018, 2:54 pm By MongabayIn Antarctica, it’s usually the whales, seals and penguins that take the spotlight, but a new…Colombia scraps Amazon highway plans due to deforestation concerns
Mar 23, 2018, 1:54 pm By Mongabay
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos declared earlier this month that a controversial highway…The wind of change blowing through Ghana’s villages (commentary)
Mar 23, 2018, 1:54 pm By MongabaySefwi Wiawso doesn’t feature in Ghana’s tourist guides. Its main town, Wiawso, is little more…Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings
Mar 23, 2018, 1:27 pm By MongabayShocked members of the Akroá-Gamellas indigenous group just after a brutal assault by Brazilian…Microplastic pollution in world’s oceans poses major threat to filter-feeding megafauna
Mar 23, 2018, 11:35 am By MongabayEven as the world is waking up to the problems created by the massive amounts of plastic pollution…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, March 23, 2018
Mar 23, 2018, 10:17 am By MongabayTropical forests A new study finds that deforestation rates of 20 to 25 percent in the Amazon could…How to build a Guardian: students learn about making technology work in the field
Mar 23, 2018, 6:00 am By Mongabay
Hundreds of students from science and technology programs around the city of Los Angeles, California…Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’
Mar 22, 2018, 12:22 pm By MongabayThe Agronegócio Estrondo agribusiness company uses signs like this one to announce its claim to…Indigenous Amazonian women demand end to extraction
Mar 22, 2018, 12:20 pm By Mongabay
QUITO, Ecuador – Nearly 100 indigenous women of the Ecuadorian Amazon spent five days protesting…In Bali fish die-offs, researchers spot a human hand
Mar 22, 2018, 11:32 am By MongabayDENPASAR, Indonesia — Tilapia is a mainstay of Balinese cuisine, but hundreds of thousands of the…New report highlights top 50 tortoises and turtles on brink of extinction
Mar 22, 2018, 10:43 am By MongabayWhen Lonesome George died in June 2012, it was the end of an entire species. He was the last…Company outed for fires in Indonesian palm lease still clearing forests in timber concession, NGO finds
Mar 22, 2018, 10:41 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — An environmental watchdog has accused a palm oil company in Indonesia of failing to…Over $720 million in profit from tourism in Peru’s protected natural areas
Mar 22, 2018, 8:24 am By MongabayWhen evaluating a business proposition, we often consider two economic variables: revenue versus…More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds
Mar 22, 2018, 8:01 am By MongabayMadagascar is known as an ark for biodiversity that’s found nowhere else on the planet.…
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