Is that palm oil mill sustainable? A new tool can tell
Jun 9, 2016, 6:40 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Palm oil – an ingredient in products from lipstick to cookies to soap – started its journey to…“Species X:” The blue-eyed dove rediscovered in a global deforestation hotspot
Jun 9, 2016, 5:20 pm By Mike Gaworecki
The Blue-eyed Ground-dove hasn’t been seen since 1941 and was believed to be extinct — that is,…Indigenous groups pressured to give up lands for doubtful Nicaragua Canal
Jun 9, 2016, 2:40 pm By Lindsay Fendt
[caption id="attachment_186962" align="alignnone" width="768"] Rama Cay is an island in the…Communities lead the way in rainforest conservation in Guatemala
Jun 9, 2016, 1:00 pm By Sandra Cuffe
Other stories in Mongabay’s series on the Maya Biosphere Reserve: Killing of Guatemalan activist…Orangutan reintroductions could risk population survival, study warns
Jun 8, 2016, 3:20 pm By Claire Salisbury
[caption id="attachment_186955" align="alignnone" width="768"] A Bornean orangutan in a…Is Brazil’s threatened bird situation Latin America’s future?
Jun 8, 2016, 2:40 pm By Bennett Hennessey
We are told that you can neatly divide the countries of the world into developed nations, developing…Chinese villagers turn from logging to forest patrols, bees, and fish
Jun 8, 2016, 12:20 pm By Wang Yan
Other stories in Mongabay's series on changing forest practices in China: China’s Wanglang panda…Rio Doce grassroots response arises out of Fundão mining disaster
Jun 8, 2016, 11:40 am By Zoe Sullivan
[caption id="attachment_186922" align="alignnone" width="768"] A freight train carries ore down the…Top 10 stories you should be aware of this World Oceans Day, according to Carl Safina
Jun 8, 2016, 9:00 am By Mike Gaworecki
Marine biologist Carl Safina is a noted author and research professor at Stony Brook University,…Environmental crime reaches new record of $258b, report finds
Jun 8, 2016, 4:20 am By Daniel Pye
The value of global environmental crime has been drastically underestimated and is now thought to…How do we keep the oceans from becoming the world’s plastic trash can?
Jun 8, 2016, 12:00 am By Annie Shapiro
Plastic’s popularity in the consumer world is no doubt a result of it being a low-cost material…Timber plantations are the latest threat facing Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands
Jun 7, 2016, 3:00 pm By Mike Gaworecki
The Mentawai peoples, who live on Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, off the western coast of Sumatra,…Can conservationists overcome their differences to save life on Earth?
Jun 7, 2016, 2:20 pm By Mongabay[dropcap]V[/dropcap]eteran Mongabay reporter Jeremy Hance’s hard-hitting series investigating…Emmylou Harris links climate change to refugee crisis, lends her voice
Jun 7, 2016, 12:20 pm By Justin Catanoso
[caption id="attachment_186893" align="alignnone" width="768"] Emmylou Harris performs for Jesuit…Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land
Jun 6, 2016, 6:20 pm By Sue Branford
[caption id="attachment_186882" align="alignnone" width="768"] The Arara Indians were nearly…Watch video of an electric eel attack
Jun 6, 2016, 6:00 pm By Mike Gaworecki
In a paper published in 1807, Prussian naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt claimed to…Two new rain frogs found in Ecuadorian Andes
Jun 6, 2016, 5:20 pm By Mike Gaworecki
Researchers with the Museum of Zoology at Catholic University of Ecuador discovered two new species…Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns
Jun 6, 2016, 4:20 pm By Claire Salisbury
[caption id="attachment_186868" align="alignnone" width="768"] River turtles in Colombia. Turtles,…China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threats
Jun 6, 2016, 1:40 pm By Wang Yan
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n late April, forest rangers caught Chen Yunxia, a young woman in her twenties,…Unclear if France will revisit ‘discriminatory’ palm oil tax
Jun 5, 2016, 10:40 pm By Loren Bell
Last month, the French Senate removed a proposed tax on palm oil from their version of the country's…
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