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Is northern India better prepared for air pollution this winter?

Mayank Aggarwal 31 Oct 2018
Satellite image from Google Earth: Tanguro, Brazil -12.262600, -52.733553

Deforestation continues upward trend in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2018
Clergymen at Tsegur Michael Church near Debretabor, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese for Mongabay.

Land restoration makes progress in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 31 Oct 2018

Thousands of radiated tortoises seized from traffickers in Madagascar

John Cannon 31 Oct 2018
Large-bodied animals like this knobbed hornbill play an important role in forest ecosystems. Studies show that the loss of seed dispersers can have long-term effects on the carbon storage of forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Forest report points to opportunity for recovery

Jennifer Rigby 31 Oct 2018

Chainsaw Massacre: Protected areas in danger in Brazil’s state of Rondônia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Paulo Vilela Cruz 31 Oct 2018

In the Peruvian Amazon, the prized shihuahuaco tree faces a grim future

Leslie Moreno Custodio, Ojo Público 31 Oct 2018
Fishing boats in Timor-Leste. Image by Jennifer King/WorldFish.

Timor-Leste: Q&A with a Maubere fisherman on reviving depleted fisheries

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 31 Oct 2018

Chile mine and port project nears approval despite scientific opposition

Michelle Carrere 31 Oct 2018

The legal institutionalization of FSC certification in Gabon (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 31 Oct 2018
Layang Layang Atoll, Spratly Islands, South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

$10bn pledged in new commitments to protect the world’s oceans

Basten Gokkon 30 Oct 2018

Will trade bans stop a deadly salamander plague from invading the US?

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2018

What’s killing Nepal’s rhinos?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Oct 2018

Kenyan charcoal businesses trying to nip invasive tree in the bud

Rosalia Omungo 30 Oct 2018

The Osa Camera Trap Network: Uniting people to monitor biodiversity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Oct 2018
Duong Le feeds shrimp on his intensive shrimp farm in Long An Province, Vietnam. Image by Zoe Osborne for Mongabay.

New climate change report highlights grave dangers for Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 30 Oct 2018

Global warming, human activities causing increased storm runoff, flash floods

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2018

With a feast of grubs, a tribe makes its case for forest stewardship

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Oct 2018

Palm oil executives arrested in bribery scandal in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong, Indra Nugraha 30 Oct 2018

China legalizes use of tiger bone and rhino horn for traditional medicine

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2018
A coral reef system along the coast of northern Mozambique, one of nearly 300 coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean examined by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and other organizations in a 10-year study that focused on coral diversity and rates from bleaching events. Photo credit: Emily Darling/WCS.

In Bali and beyond: An urgent focus on coral conservation (commentary)

Cristián Samper 29 Oct 2018

The Brazilian government’s land war against rebel slave descendants

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Oct 2018

Tsetse fly numbers dwindle in the warming Zambezi Valley

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2018

Amid lack of enforcement, fishermen take the fight to blast fishing

Ian Morse 29 Oct 2018
Maubere elders in the village of Suco Fatumea draft tara bandu regulations to protect local forests and water sources. Image by Egrilio Ferreira Vincente.

Timor-Leste: Maubere tribes revive customary law to protect the ocean

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 26 Oct 2018

Machine-learning app to fight invasive crop pest in Africa

Stephanie Parker 26 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Wandering hippos, condor central, and the macaw trade

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

Africa’s slender-snouted crocodile is not one but two species

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, October 26, 2018

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

Whales and dolphins change the way they communicate in a noisy ocean

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

Bird-rich Indonesian island yields up new songbird species

Basten Gokkon 26 Oct 2018

Peru seizes plane with 30kg of cocaine in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 25 Oct 2018

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