Trouble in Arctic town as polar bears and people face warming world
“Can I give you some polar bear advice?” asks Tee, a confident 13-year-old we meet during a visit to a high school in Churchill, Canada. “If there’s a bear this close to you,” she says as she measures...
View ArticleIn 2024, Nepal faced old & new challenges after tripling its tiger population
KATHMANDU — The year 2024 marked two years since Nepal announced the near tripling of its wild Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) population as part of the 2010 global initiative to save the big...
View ArticleEnergy chief Granholm warns against ‘unfettered exports’ of liquefied natural...
Granholm’s statement came as the Energy Department released a long-awaited study that found U.S. LNG shipments drive up domestic wholesale prices and frequently displace renewable energy sources....
View ArticleHow Germany’s turning a mining pit into its largest artificial lake
Old mines leave behind a a pressing problem: Huge holes that make the landscape look like a chunk of swiss cheese. But in Germany, some scientists and city planners are turning these into lakes. The...
View ArticleNasa astronauts Butch and Suni’s homecoming delayed again
Nasa says that the astronauts stuck on the International Space Station will have to wait even longer to get home. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were due to be back after just a week when they...
View ArticleOfficials pledge zoo review after Sumatran elephant is killed in Bali flood
DENPASAR, Indonesia — Conservation authorities in Indonesia have launched a review of the main zoo on the resort island of Bali, after an elephant there was swept away and killed in a flash flood on...
View ArticleBiden administration approves California plans to ban sale of gas-only vehicles
The Biden administration has approved California’s plan to require new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 to have zero-emissions. President-elect Trump has said he would role back the rules. The post...
View ArticleBiden just set a big new climate goal. Can the US achieve it?
With just a month left in office, the Biden administration is setting a bold new target for U.S. climate action. On Thursday, the White House announced a national goal that would see the country’s...
View ArticleA port is destroying corals to expand. Can an NGO rescue enough to matter?
TOAMASINA, Madagascar — The landscape was primed for adventure during a mid-April visit to L’île aux Prunes, an idyllic islet selected by the NGO Tany Ifandovana for transplanting rescued corals. With...
View ArticleEven for ‘progressive’ Danone, complying with EUDR is a challenge
French dairy giant Danone has been around for more than a century and operates across more than 55 countries, producing everything from yogurt and milk to protein drinks and baby formula. It did $28.9...
View ArticleNew frog species show how geology shapes Amazon’s biodiversity
The frog’s loud croaking turned out to be a call to its own demise. The researchers walking along the steep muddy bank on a rainy November day in 2022 in the Imeri Range on the Brazil-Venezuela border...
View ArticleMost large banks failing to consider Indigenous rights
Major banks, including Citibank and JPMorgan Chase, are still failing to implement the full scope of U.N. human rights principles, a new report has found. The report by finance watchdog BankTrack...
View Article‘Killed while poaching’: When wildlife enforcement blurs into violence
This is the second story in the Mongabay Series – Protected Areas in East Africa. Read Part One here. KITABU, Uganda — It’s mid-afternoon in Kitabu, a small town nestled in the hills of western Uganda...
View ArticleUnlike: Brazil Facebook groups give poachers safe space to flex their kills
Note: This article contains graphic images of dead animals that might be upsetting. Between 2018 and 2020, users of Facebook groups in Brazil shared more than 2,000 records of wildlife poaching,...
View ArticlePark rangers enforce deadly violence in Uganda
UGANDA – In Africa, debates over “fortress conservation” have raged for years. Mongabay visited one of Uganda’s largest protected areas, the Queen Elizabeth National Park, in October 2023 to take a...
View ArticleCounting Crows (and more) for Audubon’s Christmas bird count
One of the longest-running citizen science projects in the world has kicked off its 125th annual event. The Christmas Bird Count (CBC), administered by the U.S.-based nonprofit National Audubon...
View ArticleIndonesia’s Indigenous communities sidelined from conservation
JAKARTA — In recent United Nations biodiversity conferences, global leaders have championed Indigenous peoples as critical partners in achieving conservation goals. Indonesia, as a signatory to an...
View ArticleAs lithium mining bleeds Atacama salt flat dry, Indigenous communities hit back
You could be forgiven for thinking there’s no water in the Atacama Desert. In fact, the driest desert on Earth has underground springs that feed the Chaxa, Cejar and Tebenquiche lagoons, as well as...
View ArticlePoachers target South Africa’s ‘miracle’ plant with near impunity
NIEUWOUDTVILLE, South Africa — It is the devil’s breath, this wind, blowing dry and mercilessly across a plain left threadbare by decades of overgrazing. With this wind at their backs, small groups of...
View ArticleWatch: Satellite video shows world’s biggest iceberg, A23a, break free
About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for months. Now, it’s free, and heading back into open Antarctic waters. (Image...
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