El Salvador reverses landmark mining ban, setting up clash with activists
Lawmakers in El Salvador have voted to reintroduce industrial mining in the country, ending a landmark ban that was meant to protect freshwater and public health. The law, pushed through just days...
View ArticleInvasive crabs threatened West Coast ecosystems for decades. One solution?...
NPR’s Juana Summers speaks to researcher Rikke Jeppesen about her work on how sea otters, which were hunted to almost near extinction, have been able to thrive by eating up to 120,000 crabs a year. The...
View ArticleNo respite for storm-hit Mayotte, southeast Africa as new cyclone bears down
At least three people were killed in Madagascar over the weekend as Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi brought heavy rainfall and flooding to the island on its way to the African mainland, news reports said....
View ArticleIndonesian scientist under fire for revealing extent of illegal tin mining
JAKARTA — Prominent Indonesian environmental forensic expert Bambang Hero Saharjo faces yet another potential lawsuit for serving as a state witness against alleged violators, this time in a...
View ArticleHellbender salamanders could be added to endangered species list
A giant salamander called the “hellbender” is on its way to becoming an endangered species. It needs very clean water to survive and that’s getting harder to find. The post Hellbender salamanders could...
View ArticleGlobal temperature in 2024 hits record 1.55°C over pre-industrial level
The year 2024 was the hottest on record, with an average temperature of 1.55° Celsius (2.79° Fahrenheit) higher than pre-industrial levels, surpassing the previous record set in 2023, according to six...
View ArticleKrahô women lead Indigenous guard to protect territory in Brazil
Across South America, Indigenous communities have often considered territorial protection to be the main responsibility of men, while women typically assume roles as caretakers of the household,...
View ArticleSurviving fire but not the toxins as modern homes, full of plastic, burn
The ongoing fires ravaging Los Angeles, U.S., have killed at least 25 people and burned more than 12,000 buildings. Many of the structures destroyed were homes, mansions of the rich and famous and...
View ArticleTurn problems into solutions for culture and agriculture across Australia and...
Anthony James, host of The RegenNarration Podcast, joins Mongabay’s podcast to share news and views on community resilience and land regeneration in both the Americas and Australia. James recounts how...
View ArticleFatbergs turned into perfume – inside Britain’s bizarre new industrial...
BBC In a gleaming laboratory in Edinburgh, robotic machines whirr and mix. The final product that they are creating will be a pine-smelling chemical that can be used as an ingredient in perfumes. But...
View Article‘We sing to them’: LA stables turn Noah’s Ark for fire rescue animals
The trailers arrived all at once, carrying hundreds of horses fleeing the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles. Some horses came solo, others in trailers packed with fellow animals. Many had their...
View ArticleGlobal ocean temperatures set new record in 2024
Average temperatures across the world’s oceans reached an all-time high in 2024, a new multi-team study shows. The temperatures surpassed even those of 2023, which themselves represented a marked...
View ArticleNepal’s top court strikes down law allowing development in protected areas
KATHMANDU — In a historic move, Nepal’s highest court has struck down controversial measures to open up protected areas like national parks to infrastructure development such as hydropower plants,...
View ArticleSmart tags reveal migratory bats are storm-front surfers
What’s new: Some bats, like birds, migrate long distances. But these long-distance bat migrations have been somewhat of a mystery to researchers, especially since only a few species embark on them....
View ArticleWomen held keys to land and wealth in Celtic Britain
Bournemouth University Women in Britain 2,000 years ago appear to have passed on land and wealth to daughters not sons as communities were built around women’s blood lines, according to new research....
View Article‘LIFE’ scores map out where habitat loss for crops drives extinction
Across the globe, no other human activity currently affects the survival of wildlife species more than where we choose to grow our food. Alongside other impacts like hunting and climate change,...
View ArticleBrazil’s Amazon shipping plan faces criticism for environmental and social...
Brazil is set to approve a controversial expansion of 2,000 kilometers, or more than 1,200 miles, of new shipping channels in the Amazon. With a price tag in the billions of reais, the expansion is...
View ArticleInvasive green crabs threaten West Coast ecosystems. One solution? Otters
As invasive green crabs wreak havoc on California’s estuaries, a new study has found that a restored sea otter population might be the solution. (Image credit: Lilian Carswell)The post Invasive green...
View ArticleVested interests and social tribes in the Pan Amazon
The private sector is the largest single promoter of conventional development. Its lobbying organizations tend to be well-funded and staffed with competent individuals grounded in the analytical...
View ArticleSatellite ‘backpacks’ help keep track of parrot migration in Mexico
When James Sheppard set out to deploy tiny backpacks fitted with satellite transmitters to track endangered thick-billed parrots in 2019, doubts abounded. His colleagues were concerned it wasn’t going...
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