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Global cobalt rush drives toxic toll near DRC mines

Alex Shaw 27 Mar 2024

Timber in Pará state and other parts of the Brazilian Amazon can bypass regulatory permits, allowing illegal wood to be sold domestically and internationally. Federal environmental agencies play an essential role in preventing this from happening, experts say.

If the US aspires to climate leadership, it must break its addiction to the products driving forest destruction (commentary)

Sam Lawson 7 Nov 2022

Mongabay’s 10 most watched videos of 2021

Nanditha Chandraprakash 28 Dec 2021

Relying on green labels to address our thirst for the products of deforestation would be a disaster (commentary)

Sam Lawson 8 Nov 2021

Keep polar bears and their extensive range safe from oil drilling (Commentary)

Steve Blackledge and Dyani Chapman 8 Oct 2021

2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the Amazon

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Aug 2021

Tesco’s meat problem (commentary)

Robin Willoughby 3 Aug 2021

Ending Amazon deforestation a top priority on Colombian minister’s D.C. visit

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 2 Aug 2021

As blazes on embargoed Amazon land surge, links to meat industry emerge

Andrew Wasley, Elisângela Mendonça 30 Jul 2021

Our World Heritage is deeply tied to rivers and they need protection from dams (commentary)

Gary Lee | Sarinee Achavanuntakul | Eugene Simonov 9 Jul 2021

Brazil continues to lose an entire generation of Indigenous leaders to COVID-19

Jennifer Ann Thomas 25 Jun 2021

A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

As the world’s biggest users of water, business must act to save it (commentary)

Roan du Feu | Georg Kell 4 Jun 2021

Smoke rising from smoldering peatland in PT Raja Garuda Mas Sejati. Photo courtesy of Greenpeace Media Library.

Efforts to restore tropical peatlands need fire-free plantations (commentary)

Evi Wulandari | Dilva Terzano 2 Jun 2021

In the International Year of Caves and Karst, Brazilian caves are at high risk (Commentary)

Enrico Bernard | Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira | Francisco W. Cruz | Luís Piló | Allan Calux 31 May 2021

Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon

Karla Mendes 12 Mar 2021

First female leader signals new day for WTO (commentary)

Isabel Jarrett 10 Mar 2021

Amid pollution and COVID-19, a quilombolas’ Amazon sanctuary turns hostile

Sam Schramski | Cícero Pedrosa Neto | Adriana Abreu 5 Mar 2021

New cutting-edge technology can monitor illegal activities and movements of species across vast areas.

How technology can help us achieve at least 30% ocean protection (commentary)

Simon Cripps 3 Mar 2021

The perils of relying on high-tech networks in a warmer world (commentary)

Simon Pollock 25 Feb 2021

First the savior, now the villain: Fire suppression is often overhyped in the American west (commentary)

Paul C. Rogers 4 Feb 2021

Analysis: Years in the making, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta policy takes the long view

David Brown 30 Dec 2020

Sustainable financing is pivotal for marine conservation beyond 2030 pledges (commentary)

Simon Cripps 28 Dec 2020

Amur tigers are among the creatures found in Russia's taiga forest habitat. Image courtesy of WCS Russia & Sikhote-Alin Reserve.

Vaccinations may be vital for saving Amur tigers from virus outbreaks (commentary)

Dale Miquelle, Martin Gilbert 24 Dec 2020

Building a road to recovery for subtle racism in conservation (commentary)

Resson Kantai Duff (Kenya) 19 Nov 2020

Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Manuela Andreoni; Diálogo Chino 19 Nov 2020

Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

‘Deforestation-free’ isn’t working: It’s time to go forest positive (commentary)

Charlotte Opal 5 Oct 2020

Saved from poisoning, these rare African vultures take wing again

Ed Holt 3 Aug 2020

EU and partner countries must protect gains in legal timber trade during COVID-19 (commentary)

Paolo Omar Cerutti 2 Jul 2020

Nature needs cities, and cities need nature (commentary)

Johan Robinson 15 Jun 2020

Triple crisis of pipelines, pesticides and pandemic is an existential threat to Ecuador’s indigenous peoples (commentary)

Mitch Anderson 5 Jun 2020

No more business as usual: Halt dangerous development projects that put our health at risk (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 1 May 2020

Answers in excrement: Fecal analysis yields insight about wild primates

Chia-Yi Hou 29 Jan 2020

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