Highland beaver release planned for Glen Affric
Public body Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has applied for a licence to release beavers in Glen Affric in the Highlands. The glen is a large area of thickly wooded hillsides and glens with a river,...
View ArticleWorld’s biggest iceberg heads north after escaping vortex
The world’s biggest iceberg is on the move again after being trapped in a vortex for most of the year. A23a is 3,800 sq km (1,500 sq miles), which is more than twice the size of Greater London, and is...
View ArticleBronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised
Rick Schulting Scientists have uncovered the aftermath of an “exceptionally violent” attack about 4,000 years ago in Somerset when at least 37 people appear to have been butchered and likely eaten. It...
View ArticleGreater Mekong serves up 234 new species in a year, from fanged hedgehog to...
The dense tropical forests, isolated mountain peaks and limestone karst caverns of the Greater Mekong region yielded a remarkable 234 new-to-science species in 2023, according to a new report compiled...
View ArticleHigh-flying concessions: Clandestine airstrips, coca crops invade Ucayali’s...
Zooming in on the Peruvian jungle, many hectares of deforestation can be seen amid the thick vegetation, like huge scars hidden among the foliage. They’re dispersed between the forests in the...
View ArticleLandmark ICJ climate change hearing concludes; opinion expected in 2025
The world’s top court has finished hearing its largest-ever climate change case. For the first time, 96 countries and 11 international organizations presented their cases before the U.N.’s...
View ArticleOn Indonesia’s unique Enggano Island, palm oil takes root in an Indigenous...
ENGGANO ISLAND, Indonesia — Milson Kaitora’s grandparents never had trouble finding water to grow food here on Enggano Island. But today, coastal abrasion is pushing back the shoreline of Milson’s...
View ArticleScientists in Bali find what could be the world’s largest coral colony
When a massive coral colony was recently discovered in the Solomon Islands, it was believed to be the largest in the world. Then last week, scientists found an even bigger one in the waters off the...
View ArticleAsiatic wild asses return to Saudi Arabia after 100 years
It’s been a century since an onager or Asiatic wild ass was last seen in Saudi Arabia. But in April this year, seven onagers were relocated from neighboring Jordan into one of Saudi Arabia’s nature...
View ArticleMajor report joins dots between world’s nature challenges
Getty Climate change, nature loss and food insecurity are all inextricably linked and dealing with them as separate issues won’t work, a major report has warned. The review of scientific evidence by...
View ArticleScientists, Māori experts uncover new insights into rare spade-toothed whale
The spade-toothed whale is among the rarest and least-studied of whales. Until recently, only six records of the species existed, collected over the past 150 years. In early December, scientists and...
View ArticleIndonesia reforestation plan a smoke screen for agriculture project, critics say
JAKARTA — At the U.N. climate conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Indonesian government announced an ambitious plan to reforest 12.7 million hectares (31.4 million acres) of degraded land, an...
View Article‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’
On June 13, 1959, the Watha hunter Galogalo Kafonde surrendered himself to colonial Kenya’s “Field Force,” Africa’s first militarized antipoaching unit. For centuries, the ethnic Watha had hunted...
View ArticleHundreds of whales to be harpooned as Iceland issues new hunting licenses
On Dec. 6, Iceland’s caretaker government announced it had issued five-year licenses to hunt fin and minke whales in Icelandic waters. It granted the fin whale hunting license to Hvalur hf., the...
View ArticleShipbreaking pollutes Türkiye’s coast despite European cleanup efforts
ALIAĞA, Türkiye — Every day, as dusk settles over the Aegean Sea, small vans ferrying workers homeward bustle in and out of Aliağa, a town nestled against lush, forested hills in the western İzmir...
View ArticleCommunities launch new Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park amid Myanmar civil war
Amid Myanmar’s ongoing civil war, Karen and other ethnic minority communities have officially launched the Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park, a new community-led conservation area in the northern Kayin...
View ArticleTop Mongabay podcast picks for 2024
It was another busy year for Mongabay’s podcast team, featuring many fresh interviews, a new season of the Mongabay Explores series, an award, and its first year featuring a two-person co-host team at...
View ArticleRenewables won’t save us from climate catastrophe, experts warn; what will?
In 2022, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres declared that the “lifeline of renewable energy can steer [the] world out of climate crisis.” In saying so, he echoed a popular and tantalizing idea:...
View ArticleIowa is trying to deal with farm runoff using ‘saturated buffers.’ Is it enough?
Instead of regulating harmful agricultural runoff, Iowa — the nation’s biggest corn-producing state — backs a voluntary, industry-friendly program. But it’s not as effective as advertised. The post...
View ArticleCould this be what our home on Moon or Mars might look like?
AAKA Space Studio Could this egg-shaped structure be what the future home of Indian astronauts in space looks like? The Hab-1 – short for Habitat-1 – is Indian space agency Isro’s first-ever “analog...
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