Tropics’ tallest tree found in Malaysia
4:20pm By Mongabay.com
A yellow meranti (Shorea faguetiana) in Sabah, a state in Malaysian Borneo, has been crowned by…Peat expert dies from cancer after fighting Indonesian fires
9:40am By Indra Nugraha
Last year’s forest and peatland fire catastrophe is a memory now. But it may have claimed another…How is Indonesian president Jokowi doing on environmental issues?
4:00am By Philip Jacobson
This is an update to our "Tracking Jokowi" project. Last year's summary: 9 months in, how has…Many commitments, little transparency in cutting deforestation from corporate supply chains
Jun 10, 2016, 4:00 pm By Mike GaworeckiHalting deforestation was a major topic of discussion at the Paris climate talks last December, so…From endangered species to commodities: report reveals scale of wildlife crime
Jun 10, 2016, 3:40 pm By Apoorva Joshi
Wildlife trafficking is a global problem, revealed the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime…Can China’s first private nature reserve become truly sustainable?
Jun 10, 2016, 3:20 pm By Wang Yan
Other stories in Mongabay’s series on changing forest practices in China: China’s Wanglang panda…‘Mystery cat’ requires more conservation and research
Jun 10, 2016, 3:00 pm By Christina SelbyThe jaguarundi, a wild cat found from southern Texas to south-central Argentina resembles a housecat…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…
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