Tropical forest canopies get hotter than expected, putting wildlife at risk
Aug 3, 2018, 3:13 pm By MongabayNew research finds that the canopies of tropical forests get significantly hotter than the…New tea plant discoveries in Vietnam highlight vitality of protected areas
Aug 3, 2018, 12:33 pm By MongabayHO CHI MINH CITY – Two new Camellia species, a type of tea plant common to East Asia, Southeast…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, August 8, 2018
Aug 3, 2018, 12:15 pm By MongabayWe’ve rounded up a few stories that were published this week by other news outlets. Tropical…Biodiversity and the society of superlatives (commentary)
Aug 3, 2018, 12:11 pm By MongabayTraveling through the jungles of Yasuní National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon, it is difficult not…Latam Eco Review: Harlequin frogs, sustainable ranching, and miracle coral
Aug 3, 2018, 10:50 am By Mongabay
These were the most read stories published by our Spanish-language service, Mongabay-Latam, last…Nitrogen pollution is choking forests’ carbon-protecting fungi
Aug 3, 2018, 7:40 am By MongabayUnder the forest floor lies a complex, hidden world of fungi. These tiny creatures form intimate…Indonesia adds hundreds of birds to protected species list
Aug 3, 2018, 6:14 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The Indonesian government has expanded its list of wildlife species banned from trading…Study links US demand for Chinese furniture to deforestation in Africa
Aug 3, 2018, 5:47 am By Mongabay
Logging to feed furniture factories in China, spurred by demand from the United States, is thinning…Belt & Road could doom the world’s rarest ape (commentary)
Aug 2, 2018, 8:03 pm By MongabayWhen Chinese President Xi Jinping extolls China’s Belt & Road Initiative, he uses words like…Automating drone-based wildlife surveys saves time and money, study finds
Aug 2, 2018, 4:26 pm By MongabayThe Great Elephant Census, conducted in 2014 and 2015, counted more than 350,000* elephants across…95 percent of all lemur species face high risk of extinction, experts say
Aug 2, 2018, 1:32 pm By Mongabay
Together with other leading primate conservationists, Russell Mittermeier, Chief Conservation…In Peru, a new president is faced with old conservation challenges
Aug 2, 2018, 10:25 am By Mongabay
MANU NATIONAL PARK, Peru — There was movement in the understory deep in the dense rainforest off…Colombia bans the use of mercury in mining
Aug 1, 2018, 6:31 pm By MongabayJuly 16, 2018, marked history as the day that Colombia officially banned the use of mercury in…Chinese / Western financing of roads, dams led to major Andes Amazon deforestation
Aug 1, 2018, 5:27 pm By Mongabay
The Santa Cruz – Puerto Suárez highway in Bolivia, built with support from the Development Bank…Video: Meet the Bornean village chief dealing with the fallout from a corrupt plantation deal
Aug 1, 2018, 2:08 pm By Mongabay
One afternoon in 2017, an indigenous Dayak man named Kardie tracked us down to a hotel in Kuala…The crisis in the European tropical timber sector in Central Africa (commentary)
Aug 1, 2018, 12:58 pm By MongabayIn early 2018, the Africa branch of Rougier announced its bankruptcy. Founded in 1923, Rougier is…Panama’s indigenous groups take land fight to the international stage
Aug 1, 2018, 12:12 pm By Mongabay
Indigenous communities occupying four territories in eastern Panama are taking their nearly…A ‘perfect policy storm’ cuts puma numbers by almost half near Jackson, Wyoming
Aug 1, 2018, 7:31 am By Mongabay
Several decades of seemingly unrelated policies, ranging from increases in elk hunting to the…Mexico: pipeline divides Yaqui communities and triggers wave of violence
Aug 1, 2018, 5:51 am By MongabayLOMA DE BÁCUM, Mexico — October 21, 2016, is a date that the Yaqui community in the town of Loma…The Great Barrier Reef is losing its ability to bounce back from disturbances like bleaching
Jul 31, 2018, 2:16 pm By MongabayPrior to the back-to-back bleaching events that hit the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2017, the…
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