Mangrove deforestation releases more CO2 than Poland, study finds
Mar 2, 2018, 7:57 pm By MongabaySeemingly nondescript messes of tangled branches and exposed roots, mangrove forests cling to the…Drone photography allows scientists to measure marine mammals without a catch
Mar 2, 2018, 1:35 pm By MongabayScientists in Antarctica recently tested a novel technique to measure the body size and mass of…ICAO and forest offsets: Substantial opportunities and exceptional benefits (commentary)
Mar 2, 2018, 1:03 pm By MongabayIf aviation emissions were counted as those of a separate country, that country would be ranked as a…In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, March 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018, 12:30 pm By MongabayTropical forests Rangers key to saving forest-rich national park in the Congo Basin (WWF).…New thumbnail-sized pygmy squid discovered in Australia
Mar 2, 2018, 12:53 am By Mongabay
Scientists have just described a new species of “pygmy squid” the size of a thumbnail. The tiny…Judge OKs waiving environmental laws to build U.S.-Mexico border wall
Mar 1, 2018, 5:21 pm By Mongabay
On Tuesday, a federal judge in California ruled that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security did…Brazil high court Forest Code ruling largely bad for environment, Amazon: NGOs
Mar 1, 2018, 12:35 pm By MongabayThe Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay In what many consider Brazil’s…Pepsi cuts off Indonesian palm oil supplier over labor, sustainability concerns
Mar 1, 2018, 11:05 am By MongabayJAKARTA — PepsiCo has suspended its business with Indofood Agri Resources (IndoAgri), one of the…‘S.O.S.’ carved out of former plantation shines a light on palm oil-driven deforestation
Mar 1, 2018, 10:50 am By MongabayJAKARTA — An artist working with environmental activists has carved out a distress call from a…Javan rhino population holds steady amid ever-present peril
Mar 1, 2018, 10:48 am By Mongabay
JAKARTA — The Javan rhinoceros, one of the world’s most endangered species, continues to…Watch: James Watt, the farmer who challenged a palm oil fiefdom
Mar 1, 2018, 8:06 am By MongabayWe met James Watt in his home village of Bangkal during the reporting of “The palm oil fiefdom,”…Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon
Feb 28, 2018, 1:06 pm By MongabayThe Marañón River flows though the Peruvian Andes, and is a major Amazon River tributary. The…Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo
Feb 28, 2018, 9:36 am By Mongabay
A court in the Republic of Congo has convicted three men of killing elephants for their tusks, and…New study: Radar reveals bats are a bellwether of climate change
Feb 28, 2018, 8:53 am By MongabayScientists know that bats boost the profits of farmers by fertilizing crops and keeping hungry…Vanishing species deserve our few cents (commentary)
Feb 27, 2018, 3:17 pm By MongabayAs a conservation scientist, people often ask me, “What can I do to help save vanishing…Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities
Feb 27, 2018, 1:38 pm By MongabayUCAYALI REGION, Peru — Peru has passed a controversial law that makes highway construction in…Norsk Hydro accused of Amazon toxic spill, admits ‘clandestine pipeline’
Feb 27, 2018, 11:19 am By MongabayFlooding at the Norske Hydro Alunorte facility following heavy rains in February. Photo by Instituo…African Parks to manage gorges, rock art and crocodiles of Chad’s Ennedi
Feb 27, 2018, 9:50 am By Mongabay
The government of Chad has enlisted the aid of a conservation NGO to run a massive national park in…Detecting disasters on community lands in the Amazon: film highlights indigenous struggle
Feb 27, 2018, 7:00 am By Mongabay
Tens of thousands of indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon have been fighting decades of…Cambodia’s banteng-eating leopards edge closer to extinction, new study finds
Feb 27, 2018, 6:08 am By MongabayFor Cambodia’s last remaining Indochinese leopards (Panthera pardus delacouri), extinction could…
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