Global temperature in 2024 hits record 1.55°C over pre-industrial level
Jan 14, 2025, 7:00 am By
The year 2024 was the hottest on record, with an average temperature of 1.55° Celsius (2.79°…Indonesian scientist under fire for revealing extent of illegal tin mining
Jan 14, 2025, 4:42 am By
JAKARTA — Prominent Indonesian environmental forensic expert Bambang Hero Saharjo faces yet…No respite for storm-hit Mayotte, southeast Africa as new cyclone bears down
Jan 14, 2025, 3:42 am By
At least three people were killed in Madagascar over the weekend as Tropical Cyclone…El Salvador reverses landmark mining ban, setting up clash with activists
Jan 13, 2025, 3:32 pm By
Lawmakers in El Salvador have voted to reintroduce industrial mining in the country, ending a…New study reveals why some birds are all about that bass
Jan 13, 2025, 10:08 am ByBirds produce an impressive variety of songs and calls, but the biological and ecological factors…World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South
Jan 13, 2025, 10:05 am By
Humanity achieved a fateful milestone last year. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change…For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants
Jan 13, 2025, 6:03 am By
This is the third story in the Mongabay Series – Protected Areas in East Africa. Read Part One and…By razing trees for flood defenses, a Philippine city may have raised its risk
Jan 13, 2025, 5:06 am ByFlood-mitigation infrastructure built in the southern Philippines for more than $100 million by…New alert system can track changes in grasslands, farms, temperate forests
Jan 13, 2025, 1:08 am By
A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of…Right whales can live to 130, but in North America they die young
Fri 3:42pm By
Groundbreaking research in the late 1990s showed that Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales could live more…Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis
Fri 7:58am By
Among New Guinea’s rainforest inhabitants is a group of birds called pitohuis, chatty songbirds…‘You have to be passionate’: Interview with Turtle Survival Alliance’s Hery Razafimamonjiraibe
Fri 2:34am By
Madagascar is home to weird and wonderful creatures that occur nowhere else on the planet. In many…‘Nightmare’ fire threatens iconic Madagascar national park
Fri 1:19am By
A mighty blaze in Madagascar’s Ranomafana National Park is menacing the home of the world’s…Bonobo numbers in DRC park stable, but signs of decline appear
Fri 12:27am By
Bonobo populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Salonga National Park remained steady…NGOs raise concerns over Borneo pilot of ‘jurisdictional’ certification for palm oil
Fri 12:01am ByBANJARMASIN, Indonesia — In October 2023 in the Indigenous Dayak village of Bangkal, Indonesian…It’s time for a U.N. ‘universal declaration on nature’ (commentary)
Jan 9, 2025, 6:24 pm By
Attending the UN climate (COP28) and biodiversity conferences (COP16) during the past two years, it…Deadly wildfires force thousands to evacuate homes in Los Angeles
Jan 9, 2025, 10:43 am By
Wildfires in Southern California, U.S., have killed at least five people, forced some 130,000 to…Indonesian forestry minister proposes 20m hectares of deforestation for crops
Jan 9, 2025, 9:54 am ByJAKARTA — An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South…At least 11,500 deaths linked to extreme weather in 2024
Jan 9, 2025, 7:45 am By
Extreme weather in 2024 affected around 18 in every 1,000 people across the globe, according to…One atlas to map all ecosystems on Earth: Interview with Yana Gevorgyan
Jan 9, 2025, 5:46 am By
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