Regions with highest risks to wildlife have fewest camera traps, study finds
Over the past three decades, camera traps have given us a rare, never-before-seen peek into animal lives. Used by conservation organizations, academic researchers and citizen science projects around...
View ArticleUgandan chimps are eating bat guano, raising concerns over human epidemics
“Finish your yogurt, sweetheart, it’s good for your bones. And take a few almonds, so you’ll stay healthy.” You may have heard this before, and rightly so. Minerals, such as calcium and magnesium, are...
View ArticleCave discovered on Moon could be home for humans
Scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the Moon. At least 100m deep, it could be an ideal place for humans to build a permanent base, they say. It is just one in probably hundreds of...
View ArticleWomen in Sierra Leone unite after devastating floods | Mongabay Sessions
In this episode of Mongabay Sessions, Romi Castagnino, Mongabay’s associate video producer, sits down with documentary director Ibrahim S. Miles Kamara. His film, Freetown Floodfighters: Women’s...
View ArticleSecret ‘sky island’ rainforest saved by new discoveries
55 minutes ago By Jonah Fisher, BBC Environment correspondent BBC/Tony Jolliffe Perched on a remote mountain top and surrounded by lowlands, Mabu is what’s known as a “sky island” and is the largest...
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The surprisingly simple way cities could save people from extreme heat
The city is a growing paradox. Humanity needs its many efficiencies: People living more densely and taking up less land — with easy access to decarbonized public transportation — collaborating and...
View ArticleCalifornia’s wildfires are burning far more land so far this year than in 2023
Cal Fire Chief Joe Tyler said the agency and its partners are equipped with with fire trucks, bulldozers, and newly introduced Blackhawk helicopters that can fly at night. (Image credit: Eric...
View ArticleIn Mexico City’s precolonial canals, scientists aim to save ancient salamanders
The rickety rowboat has been traveling for about half an hour through Xochimilco, a precolonial borough in southern Mexico City, past canals, ditches and meadows when it docks at a small strip of land....
View ArticleIn a desertscape in Brazil, science brings farms to bountiful life
When José Rodrigues do Santos first saw the enormous canyons in Gilbués, in Brazil’s Piauí state, he didn’t imagine that he would spend the rest of his life there. He had walked some 20 kilometers (12...
View ArticleTraditional foods have the potential to help Kashmir communities adapt to...
In the western Himalayas of Kashmir, mountain communities are eating their way to preserving traditional knowledge. Local food advocates are trying to get more of the rich array of wild edible plant...
View ArticleLoopholes allow multilateral development banks to fund captive coal in...
JAKARTA — Publicly funded multilateral development banks (MDBs) like the World Bank might finance a wave of “captive” coal expansion in climate-vulnerable countries vulnerable to climate change, which...
View ArticleInstitutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk
This is the second in a two-part report about the reintroduction of the Spix’s macaw, a bird declared extinct in the wild, and the uncertain future of its return. Read Part One here. RIO DE JANEIRO —...
View ArticleA year after toxic tar sands spill, questions remain for affected First Nation
Living downstream from one of the world’s largest industrial projects isn’t easy — especially when things go wrong. When the community of Fort Chipewyan in Alberta, Canada, learned there had been a...
View ArticleNew tech aims to keep polar bears and people apart
44 minutes ago By Victoria Gill, @vic_gill, Science correspondent, BBC News Tyler Ross At the end of the Canadian Arctic summer, polar bears head inland to wait for the ice to form. And while...
View ArticleThai tiger numbers swell as prey populations stabilize in western forests
The tiger population density in a series of protected areas in western Thailand has more than doubled over the past two decades, according to new survey data. Thailand is the final stronghold of the...
View ArticleThe magic — and science — of synchronous firefly displays
Every year for two weeks between mid-May and mid-June, Congaree National Park in South Carolina is home to a fairy-tale-like display of flashing lights. These rhythmic performances happen all because...
View ArticleTo end turtle hunting, an African island state embraced the hunters
Five of the world’s seven species of marine turtles come to the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, in Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, to breed or forage. The islanders patrol nesting sites, survey adult...
View ArticleGarifuna land rights abuses persist in Honduras, despite court ruling
Since the early 17th century, the Garifuna Afro-Indigenous peoples of Honduras have lived on the country’s northern Caribbean coast, where they collectively own large tracts of rich coastal land and...
View ArticleReport reveals widespread use of smuggled mercury in Amazon gold mining
The return in 2023 of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Brazil’s presidency marked a significant setback for illegal gold mining in the Amazon. During Lula’s first year in office, the federal environmental...
View ArticleSpace mission that maps forests in 3D makes an early comeback
Call it the force’s doing, but it has been surprises galore for the GEDI mission. In early 2023, the lidar mission that maps the Earth’s forests in 3D was to be burned up in the atmosphere to make way...
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