In a border town, a favorite African fuel has an uncertain future
Nov 3, 2016, 1:20 pm By MongabayNAMANGA BORDER POINT, Kenya/Tanzania - Juliette Hizano remembers when the police arrived. In the…Beyond Paris: COP22, a critical nuts-and-bolts carbon-cutting summit
Nov 3, 2016, 1:20 pm By Mongabay[caption id="attachment_190636" align="alignnone" width="800"] An open-air market in Marrakesh,…From Indonesia to Ohio: the struggle to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity
Nov 3, 2016, 8:40 am By MongabayThis is Part One of a two-part series about attempts to rescue Sumatran rhinos from the brink of…New atlas bolsters global perspective of fisheries – book review
Nov 3, 2016, 3:00 am By MongabayDaniel Pauly has built his career as a fisheries biologist out of tracking down the numbers that…Nations come together to save Kenya’s disappearing coastal forests
Nov 2, 2016, 8:20 pm By MongabayWITU, Kenya – Dense green foliage flanks the dusty, heavily potholed road in Witu Forest, a…One-Year Anniversary of Brazil dam disaster brings prosecutions
Nov 2, 2016, 6:20 pm By Mongabay[caption id="attachment_190596" align="alignnone" width="768"] The town of Bento Rodrigues was…Illegal fishing threatens Easter Island’s natural resources
Nov 2, 2016, 4:00 pm By Mongabay
Simon Pakarati recalled how as a child he used to fish with hooks that would constantly get stuck on…Nigerian superhighway project draws international attention over threats to local communities and wildlife
Nov 2, 2016, 2:00 pm By Mongabay
The clearing of a corridor for the Cross River Superhighway in Nigeria, which would cut through the…New millipede discovered in California has 414 legs, 4 penises
Nov 2, 2016, 12:20 pm By MongabayInside a dark, marble cavern in Sequoia National Park, California, scientists have discovered a new…Complaint against a palm oil company in Papua held in limbo by RSPO
Nov 2, 2016, 5:10 am By MongabayA complaint lodged earlier this year about alleged abuses by a palm oil company in Indonesian Papua…Myanmar’s logging ban feeds shadow economy of illegal trade
Nov 1, 2016, 8:05 pm By MongabayMANDALAY, Myanmar - Sitting in a shop on the riverfront in Mandalay just last week, Win Nyunt…Nearly $1 billion in forest carbon finance committed in 2015
Nov 1, 2016, 6:56 pm By MongabayThe inclusion of the UN’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation program,…Small oil palm plantations are having big impacts on Peru rainforest
Oct 28, 2016, 3:40 pm By Mongabay
A closer look at a deforestation “hotspot” in central Peru finds oil palm expansion to be the…Record of ancient atmospheric carbon levels can tell us about climate change impacts to come
Oct 28, 2016, 3:00 pm By Mongabay
Over the past million years of Earth’s history, the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide has been…Could REDD help save an embattled forest in Cambodia?
Oct 28, 2016, 2:20 pm By Mongabay
Over the past three decades, few countries lost forest cover faster than Cambodia: over a quarter of…Does the Brazil nut business work in Bolivia?
Oct 28, 2016, 2:20 pm By MongabayIn Bolivia, the Brazil nut is the second most exported non-traditional product after soybeans,…Gold Rush in Bolivia sparks conflict between miners and the community
Oct 28, 2016, 1:20 pm By Mongabay
Northern La Paz - Fifteen years ago, ex-miner Pedro Espinoza decided to leave behind gold mining and…Pledging to reduce emissions while expanding its power grid, Indonesia walks a fine line
Oct 28, 2016, 12:20 pm By Mongabay
Last week, Indonesia joined 81 other nations by signing United Nations Framework Convention on…RSPO loses key backer in Australia: ‘We just can’t trust them anymore’
Oct 28, 2016, 6:40 am By Mongabay
The cachet of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has taken a hit with the withdrawal of support…Food shortages fueling bear-human conflicts in Bolivian Andes
Oct 27, 2016, 6:00 pm By Mongabay
The ancestor of the Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus) is the Florida spectacled bear (Tremarctos…
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