16 new-to-science grasshopper species found in US, Mexico deserts
What’s new: A recent study has identified 16 new-to-science species of grasshoppers living in the deserts of the U.S. and Mexico. One of the grasshoppers was named after the Mexican painter Frida...
View ArticleConservation in wealthy nations may worsen global biodiversity loss, study finds
Efforts to rewild landscapes across Europe and North America could be making global biodiversity loss worse by shifting environmental destruction to poorer, more biodiverse regions, a new study warns....
View ArticleStudy links African lion survival to prey availability
BLANTYRE, Malawi ― African lions are declining due to the decrease in their herbivore prey, necessitating the need for increased prey protection measures to reverse this trend, a study says. According...
View ArticleDRC government directive triggers panic in ape sanctuaries amid ongoing conflict
For primate sanctuaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the year 2025 has begun with panic, worry and uncertainty as they are caught between the ongoing armed conflict in the eastern parts of the...
View ArticleUN biodiversity decision 16/2 is ‘unencumbered by economic thinking’ (analysis)
This analysis was conceived by its author as a trilogy of commentaries in the wake of Decision 16/2 from the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)....
View ArticleChanel wanted ‘responsible’ gold. It turned to a protected area in Madagascar
ANDRANOTSIMATY, Madagascar — On an August afternoon, a conspiracy of golden-crowned sifakas made their way across Andranotsimaty, a settlement inside Loky Manambato Protected Area in Madagascar. There...
View ArticleLula pushes oil drilling at mouth of Amazon despite climate risks
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pushing to approve exploratory oil drilling at the mouth of the Amazon River before November’s U.N. COP30, an initiative which clashes with his image...
View ArticleUSAID funding freeze throws international conservation into disarray
U.S President Donald Trump and his senior adviser, tech billionaire Elon Musk, recently imposed a 90-day freeze on nearly all USAID projects. USAID is known for funding health and humanitarian...
View ArticleScientists probe gulls’‘weird and wonderful’ appetites
11 hours ago Helen BriggsBBC environment correspondent•@hbriggs Getty Images From pilfering chips to swallowing whole starfish, gulls are known for their voracious appetites. However, one scientist...
View Article£3,000 rents cause housing fears near nuclear plant
4 hours ago George King BBC News, Suffolk Reporting fromLeiston, Suffolk Zoie O’Brien/BBC Residents fear being priced out of a Suffolk town due to the construction of a nuclear power plant, with the...
View ArticleThe asteroid hits and near-misses you never hear about
Georgina Rannard Climate and science reporter Getty Images A large asteroid known as 2024 YR4 has grabbed headlines this week as scientists first raised its chances of hitting earth, then lowered...
View ArticleHow birds deepen our awareness of nature: Interview with Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok
Growing up in northern Thailand, Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok would sketch and paint the birds he saw during family outings. These early artistic pursuits soon fledged into a lifelong passion for avian...
View ArticleAn investment fund that pays out for nature? Mongabay podcast explains the TFFF
The Brazilian government in 2023 announced a novel funding mechanism to incentivize forest preservation: the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). In an episode of Mongabay’s weekly podcast...
View ArticleConservationists suspect fishing nets, increased tourism for sea turtle...
Within only a couple of weeks during their breeding season, more than 100 olive ridley turtles were found dead at Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar Beach. Conservationists blame the indiscriminate use of...
View ArticleAn Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction
Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed...
View ArticlePause to USAID already having impacts on community conservation in the Amazon
A wide range of sustainability, health and environmental programs in the Amazon Rainforest are at stake after the U.S. government announced a 90-day pause on all foreign aid funding, including from...
View ArticleOil drilling in the mouth of the Amazon – Lula on a course to disaster...
The mounting pressure on Brazil’s federal environmental agency (IBAMA) to approve the disastrous project to extract oil from the mouth of the Amazon River (see here and here) should be interpreted as...
View ArticleAiding natural pollination can boost cacao yields & climate resilience
Climate change poses a major well-known risk to cacao production. But a new study finds that low pollination is also limiting yields in producing countries — a finding that could offer hope to a...
View ArticleDeforestation and airstrip close to isolated teen’s Indigenous land in Brazil...
On the evening of Feb. 12, a teenager from an isolated Indigenous group voluntarily made contact with people in a fishing village in the western Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazil’s Indigenous...
View ArticleBaja California tourism poses mounting challenges for conservation, critics say
MEXICO CITY —No place attracts more foreign investment in tourism in Mexico than the state of Baja California Sur, where developers are trying to replicate the success of top resort destinations like...
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