Rhett Butler

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Grass-fed beef production generates more greenhouse gas than using feedlots. Photo by Scott Bauer.

Raising beef cattle on grass can create a higher carbon footprint than feedlots, new study suggests

Kimberly Hickok 5 Dec 2017
A herd of capybara, the world’s largest living rodents, go for a swim in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Mammal diversity may increase carbon storage in rainforests

Jennifer Leman 5 Dec 2017
2. A pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) leaps from the Samiria River in northeastern Peru. These dolphins, along with scores of fish and crocodilians, suffered from an intense drought in 2010, but most recovered during extreme floods between 2011 and 2015. Photo courtesy of Richard Bodmer and FundAmazonia.

Extreme seasonal changes in Amazon river levels threaten forest conservation by indigenous people

Jeremy Rehm 4 Dec 2017
Hippos have large curved canine teeth and a pair of huge incisors in the lower jaw. Credit: Peripitus via Creative Commons (CC- BY-SA-3.0)

The curious case of the phantom hippo teeth

Laura G. Shields 4 Dec 2017

Plastic in the ocean smells like junk food to hungry anchovies

Vicky Stein 29 Nov 2017
The Maasai people in Kenya pass down environmental knowledge through storytelling. Photo courtesy of Joan de la Malla.

Storytelling empowers indigenous people to conserve their environments

Nicoletta Lanese 27 Nov 2017

Long-term droughts are throttling growth in Hawaiian forests, finds airborne laser-based study

Alex Fox 27 Nov 2017

The tenacity of tigers: how the biggest cat varies across its range (photos)

Jonathan C. Slaght 22 Nov 2017

Mapping how to feed 9 billion humans, while avoiding environmental calamity

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Nov 2017

A new species of orangutan from Indonesia (analysis)

Anthony B. Rylands, Gabriella Fredriksson, Russell A. Mittermeier, Serge Wich 2 Nov 2017

Deforestation drops 16% in the Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Oct 2017

One man’s quest to save the world’s wildest places: Hansjörg Wyss

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Oct 2017

Photos: night owls

David Oehler, Julie Larsen Maher 13 Oct 2017

$100 million dollar fund launched to secure indigenous land rights

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2017

Sudden death of juvenile zoo elephant raises anew issues of life in captivity

Laurel Neme 4 Oct 2017

Amazon dam defeats Brazil’s environment agency (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Sep 2017

Photos: South America’s adorable Andean bear

Scott Silver 20 Sep 2017

Pursuing a decent life for all on a sustainable planet (commentary)

Michael Painter, David Wilkie 18 Sep 2017

Does social forestry always decrease deforestation and poverty? (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 17 Sep 2017

‘Snow white’ giraffes caught on video for the first time

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2017

Amazon mining unleashed (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 15 Sep 2017

Brazil rejects oil company’s ‘Amazon Reef’ drilling bid

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2017

Rethinking conservation funding models in Africa (commentary)

Fred Nelson, Leela Hazzah, John Kasaona, Scott O’Connell, Peter Riger, Bernie Tershy 11 Aug 2017

Photos: Bald eagle bird bath

Julie Larsen Maher, Megan Maher 28 Jul 2017
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Conserving the World’s Remaining Intact Forests (commentary)

Michael Painter, David Wilkie 25 Jul 2017

Big forests, big ag: Are rainforests the right place for industrial agriculture? (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 20 Jul 2017

Transforming business as usual in Indonesia: an interview with Aida Greenbury

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jul 2017

Scientists condemn expansion of industrial monocultures at expense of traditional gardens in Mexico

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2017

U.S. bans Brazilian beef imports

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2017

Photos: India’s rarest crocodile, the gharial

Julie Larsen Maher 19 Jun 2017

Borneo’s ‘biocultural holocaust’: an interview with author Alex Shoumatoff

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Jun 2017

Documenting the fight to save Borneo’s animals

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2017

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Yo Yaj at Songkhla Lake, Thailand
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