Brazil rejects oil company’s ‘Amazon Reef’ drilling bid
Aug 29, 2017, 3:39 pm By Mongabay
A French oil giant suffered a set back in its bid to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon…Video: Hatchlings boost hope for extremely rare duck
Aug 29, 2017, 4:03 am By Mongabay
In July this year, three villagers discovered a bird’s nest inside a hollow of the Koki tree in…Bats and viruses: Beating back a bad reputation
Aug 29, 2017, 12:00 am By MongabayA burned-out stump was all that remained by the time a team of virologists arrived in Méliandou in…Rhino horn confiscated, three alleged traffickers arrested in Sumatra
Aug 28, 2017, 4:39 pm By Mongabay
Environmental law enforcement authorities in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island arrested three people on…Indigenous farmers fight eucalyptus damage to water source in Ecuador
Aug 28, 2017, 3:38 pm By Mongabay
SALCEDO, Ecuador – The southeastern wedge of Ecuador’s Cotopaxi province is filled with rich…Intact forests crucial to Amazon ecosystem resilience, stable climate
Aug 28, 2017, 11:46 am By Mongabay
Caatinga after the rain. The Caatinga is a dry forest habitat found in Brazil’s northeast. Adapted…Extensive illegal cattle ranching destroys core area of Nicaragua’s Indio Maíz Biological Reserve
Aug 28, 2017, 8:00 am By Mongabay(This article is a collaboration between Mongabay-Latam and Onda Local in Nicaragua) Indio Maíz…Re-peeling the effects of degradation: low-tech application of orange crop waste shows potential to restore tropical forests
Aug 25, 2017, 5:53 pm By Mongabay
Researchers have come upon a new low-tech tropical forest restoration strategy, beginning with…Quilombolas’ community land rights under attack by Brazilian ruralists
Aug 25, 2017, 12:18 pm By Mongabay
A protest against the “marco temporal” requiring quilombos to prove their existence in 1888 (the…‘Science needs to catch up’: Deep sea mining looms over unstudied ecosystems
Aug 25, 2017, 8:33 am By Mongabay
We know very little about the deepest parts of the ocean – and are disturbing them faster than…Samsung under fire for partnership with forest-burning Korindo
Aug 25, 2017, 6:25 am By MongabayAn online petition asking Samsung to drop its partnership with a Korean-Indonesian conglomerate over…Temer pays back ruralists: opens Brazil, Amazon to mining, say critics
Aug 24, 2017, 3:31 pm By Mongabay
Bauxite mines in Paragominas, Brazil, Norsk Hydro ASA. President Temer this week decreed the opening…Good quality monitoring surveys key to wildlife conservation: new study
Aug 24, 2017, 2:33 am By Mongabay
A biodiversity crisis is looming upon us. We are now in the middle of a “sixth great extinction”…Renewable energy to power 139 countries? Scientists say it’s possible
Aug 23, 2017, 5:38 pm By Mongabay
Clean, renewable energy holds immense potential to help us tackle a rapidly warming climate. But…‘Yoda bat’ happy to be recognized as new species
Aug 23, 2017, 5:35 pm By Mongabay
The character Yoda, the venerable Jedi Master from the Star Wars franchise, may have come from a…These 3 companies owe Indonesia millions of dollars for damaging the environment. Why haven’t they paid?
Aug 23, 2017, 4:32 am By MongabayJAKARTA — The Indonesian government is struggling to collect fines from companies found guilty of…Deforestation from gold mining in Peru continues, despite gov’t crackdowns
Aug 22, 2017, 10:57 pm By Mongabay
Tambopata National Reserve is a haven for plants and wildlife, not to mention ecologists eager to…Protests over geothermal development heat up in Central Java
Aug 22, 2017, 7:46 pm By Mongabay
PURWOKERTO, Indonesia — This January, the people of Karangtengah Village in Central Java were…Audio: A rare earth mine in Madagascar triggers concerns for locals and lemurs
Aug 22, 2017, 3:11 pm By MongabayOur first guest on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast is Eddie Carver, a Mongabay contributor…The world’s first biotacide (commentary)
Aug 22, 2017, 3:02 pm By Mongabay
Many refer to it as the Sixth Mass Extinction, but it isn’t. It’s different. We are not simply…
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