Maldives president tells world: ‘please, don’t be stupid’ on climate change
Maldives announces it will be carbon neutral in ten years
Three new species discovered in mile-long underwater cave
Summer sea ice likely to disappear in the Arctic by 2015
NOAA offers "dramatic evidence" of Arctic warming (10/16/2008) Fall air temperatures 9°F (5°C) above normal, the second lowest-ever extent of summer sea ice, and the melting of surface ice in…
Air pollution in China reduces rainfall
Greenhouse gas emissions drop in the EU for the fourth year in a row
Destructive farming practices of early civilization may have altered climate long before industrial era
Amid price cuts, companies struggle to make bottled-water profitable
Photos: snow leopard in Afghanistan
Oil spill off Australia potential ‘disaster’ for marine wildlife
Mining and biodiversity offsets in Madagascar: Conservation or ‘Conservation Opportunities?’
New Amazonian reserve saves over a million acres in Peru
World’s rarest duck flies closer to extinction’s edge
Retailers Costco and Amazon.com flunk sustainable paper use, WalMart and Target fare little better
Cost of climate change adaptation to be 2-3 times higher than current estimates
The mysterious, fascinating, and lightning-quick mantis shrimp: An Interview with Maya deVries
Maya deVries is a graduate student studying integrative biology at Berkeley. Mongabay.com's fourth in a new series of interviews with 'Young Scientists'.
The Pope: “creation is under threat”
Pope Benedict XVI spoke today on environmental issues, singling out the importance of a September U.N. summit in New York to work on negotiations for an international framework to tackle…
Trees sprout across farmland worldwide
Snails learn from fear
Start your engines with watermelon juice
World’s largest bat threatened with extinction due to legal hunting
Tiger brutally killed in zoo, body parts taken to sell for Chinese medicine
Solar powered conservation
Militarization of scientific research could spawn deadlier weapons
The prestigious international science journal Nature recently exposed the issue of the militarization of scientific research. While research into chemical and biological compounds and weapons has been supported by many…
Unique acacia tree could play vital role in turning around Africa’s food crisis
20,000 orangutans killed or poached in 10 years without a single prosecution
Conservation group calls on birders to look for extinct species
A new effort to save global biodiversity? Just ask E.O. Wilson
Gold mining threatens world’s most infamous reptile, the Komodo dragon
World’s rarest camel survived nuclear tests but today threatened by hunger for its meat
Update: John Hare died January 28, 2022 at the age of 87. An interview with John Hare of the Wild Camel Protection Foundation Camels are among the most recognizable animals…
Environmental disappointments under Obama
Little hydroelectric dams become all the rage, but do they harm the environment?
New Zealand dairy industry contributing to rainforest destruction, says Greenpeace
Fonterra, the world's largest dairy exporter, is contributing to destruction of rainforests in Southeast Asia through its consumption of palm kernel as animal feed, alleges Greenpeace. The environmental group says…
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Fires rip through Indigenous territories in Brazilian Amazon
- Monitoring group cracks down on deforestation in Cameroon gorilla sanctuary
- Western Kenya’s most important water-capturing forest is disappearing, satellites show
- How a holistic approach aims to heal mangroves in Guinea-Bissau
Oceans
- Conservationists see progress for swordfish, problems for sharks at Atlantic fisheries summit
- As tidal power rides a wave of clean energy optimism, pitfalls persist
- Plan for close season rings alarm bells for Liberia’s artisanal fishers
- Lab-grown corals resisted bleaching during Caribbean’s worst marine heat wave
Amazon Conservation
- ‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead
- New conservation model calls for protecting Amazon for its archaeological riches
- Brazil dredges Amazon rivers to ease drought isolation, raising environmental concerns
- ‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says
Land rights and extractives
- Brazil sets a date to remove illegal miners from Munduruku land, more details await
- Peruvian logger loses FSC label after latest clash with isolated Mashco Piro
- A national park and its rangers in Bolivia endure persisting road construction, illegal mining
- Can nations ever get artisanal gold mining right?
Endangered Environmentalists
- Vietnam sentences yet another energy expert over renewables research
- Mother Nature Cambodia activists sentenced to prison — again
- Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil
- Indonesian activist freed in hate speech case after flagging illegal shrimp farms
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
Conservation Effectiveness
- How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?
- How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation (commentary)
- Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?
- Failure in conservation projects: Everyone experiences it, few record it
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- An ‘ocean grab’ for a property megaproject leaves Jakarta fishers grounded
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
