How Indonesian companies dodge fines for forest & peatland fires
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JAKARTA — Indonesia’s courts have ordered plantation companies to pay more than 21 trillion…Philippines’ new forest policy wins business backing but alarms green groups
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MANILA — The Philippine government has rolled out a sweeping forest land reform that officials say…John Landsiedel, Alaska wildlife biologist and pilot, died on July 25, aged 33
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Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis,…Are crows really street smart? Science confirms the genius of corvids (commentary)
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In Colombia, the construction of illegal roads continues to damage protected areas. In Chiribiquete…World Orangutan Day: Ongoing threats & habitat loss haunt these great apes
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Despite years of research into their complex behavior and intelligence, orangutans remain critically…Deadly Nordic heat wave made 10 times worse by climate change: Study
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A deadly heat wave in July that left people and wildlife struggling in Norway, Sweden and Finland…Spain deploys 500 more troops to battle wildfires during extended heat wave
Mon 2:47pm By
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Spain is deploying 500 more soldiers to help battle wildfires that have…Sniffer dogs may have rediscovered a lost population of Sumatran rhinos
Mon 11:27am By
Sumatran rhinos — hairy and noisy — were thought to have gone extinct from southern Sumatra for…US proposes zero new protections for traded wildlife at upcoming CITES CoP
Mon 11:09am By
At the end of 2025, representatives from 185 countries will convene in Uzbekistan to discuss the…Amazon jambu blends tradition and science for numbing flavors and healthcare
Mon 10:34am By
The jambu plant is native to the Amazon Rainforest, where it’s renowned for its numbing and…There’s hope for sunflower sea stars, with their killer unmasked and reintroductions pending
Mon 10:19am By
There’s hope for an iconic ocean predator that has mostly disappeared from California’s…Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters
Mon 9:32am By
San Matías Gulf, on the northern coast of Argentina’s Patagonia region, is one of the most…US proposes threatened listing for widely trafficked Borneo earless monitor
Mon 7:29am By
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently proposed listing the Borneo earless monitor, an…Increased construction in the Himalayas risks more deadly flash floods
Mon 7:19am By
On Aug. 5, a flash flood devastated much of the Himalayan village of Dharali in India’s…Green hydrogen development threatens wildlife in Chile
Mon 5:02am By
Green hydrogen promoters tout it as the clean energy of the future. In 2020, Chile launched its…As fast-spreading mussel sweeps across Asia, Sri Lanka faces new invasive threat
Mon 3:34am By
COLOMBO — The discovery of the black mussel (Mytella strigata) in coastal shrimp farms in Sri…Air quality study of East Java waste-to-energy plant sparks dispute, health warnings
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A 54-day monitoring by Indonesia’s largest environmental group around a waste-to-energy plant in…UN plastic treaty negotiations end in failure, again
Aug 15, 2025, 6:26 pm By
Representatives from 184 countries recently gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to tackle the growing…The death toll from flash floods in northwest Pakistan has jumped to 157, officials say
Aug 15, 2025, 6:14 pm By
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed…
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