Shreya Dasgupta

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Shreya Dasgupta is a Newswire editor at Mongabay. She's a writer, editor and podcast producer, focusing on science and the environment.

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Tree islands help restore biodiversity in oil palm plantations

Bobby Bascomb 21 Nov 2024

Last wild hurricane palm of its kind falls, marking extinction

Shanna Hanbury 20 Nov 2024
Banner image of a wetland in South Africa, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Recent surge in methane emissions driven by microbes: Study

Kristine Sabillo 20 Nov 2024
The Loita Forest is an important migration corridor for elephants moving between the Rift Valley and the Maasai Mara.

Controversial study finds cattle and wildlife can co-exist in Kenya’s Maasai Mara

Bobby Bascomb 15 Nov 2024

Weak laws on native seeds undermine Brazil reforestation efforts: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Nov 2024
Banner image of clownfish and coral reef in Indonesia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

44% of reef-building coral species at risk of extinction: IUCN

Kristine Sabillo 14 Nov 2024

World’s largest known coral — visible from space — found in Solomon Islands

Bobby Bascomb 14 Nov 2024
Banner image of deforestation in Malaysia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

WWF gives banks a tool to see if they’re financing environmental crime

Kristine Sabillo 14 Nov 2024

More than 20% of Earth’s plants grow only on islands, global study finds

Shanna Hanbury 13 Nov 2024

Local groups drive creation of new Puerto Rico marine protected area

Bobby Bascomb 12 Nov 2024
Banner image of a coral reef in Indonesia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

New ‘Cali Fund’ plans to make companies pay for benefiting from nature

Kristine Sabillo 12 Nov 2024
Banner image of a curlew sandpiper, courtesy of Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok/BirdLife International.

Shorebird populations drop globally, some by a third: Report

Kristine Sabillo 11 Nov 2024
Banner image of a herd of elephants at Jim Corbett National Park in northern India. Image by A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Genome study shows five distinct elephant populations in India

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2024

Animals consume alcohol more often than previously known: Study

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2024
Banner image of dholes recorded via camera trap in CCML in 2024, courtesy of Conservation International.

Camera trap survey in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains finds 108 species

Kristine Sabillo 7 Nov 2024

NOAA finds 77% of world’s corals exposed to bleaching-level heat

Bobby Bascomb 6 Nov 2024
Boreal Forest Fire in Canada by Markus Mauthe/Greenpeace

Forest fires outside tropics drove 60% CO2 surge since 2001: Study

Kristine Sabillo 6 Nov 2024
Banner image of Indonesian rainforest by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Mining drove 1.4m hectares of forest loss in last 2 decades: Report

Kristine Sabillo 5 Nov 2024
Banner image of Super Typhoon Kong-Rey via PAGASA.

At least 146 dead in back-to-back tropical cyclones in Philippines

Kristine Sabillo 4 Nov 2024
The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

Population crash means African penguins are now critically endangered

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2024
Frozen tuna are transferred from the a Taiwanese longliner to a Panama-flagged reefer that was based in Tokyo, Japan. The transfer took place in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 2019. Image © Tommy Trenchard / Greenpeace

Study maps owners of world’s high-seas ships often tied to illegal fishing

Shanna Hanbury 31 Oct 2024
Banner image of logging truck near Think Biotech’s concession in 2020. Image by Ma Chettra.

Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2024

At least 94 dead as worst storm in decades hits Spain’s Valencia region

Shanna Hanbury 30 Oct 2024
Banner image of Turkana women from Kenya by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Women-led groups remain ‘severely underfunded’ for climate action: Report

Kristine Sabillo 29 Oct 2024

Climate crisis endangers pregnant women and babies: Report

Bobby Bascomb 28 Oct 2024
Banner image of a drone. Image by Potushaft via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bird-watching with drones? Might want to watch your distance, study says

Kristine Sabillo 28 Oct 2024
Banner image of tropical storm Trami via PAGASA.

Tropical cyclones pummel Philippines, India

Kristine Sabillo 25 Oct 2024

Polar bears are suffering paw injuries likely driven by the warming Arctic: Study

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2024
Chevron oil field in Indonesia. Banner image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

NGO takes on BlackRock over ‘sustainable’ funds that prop up oil majors

Kristine Sabillo 25 Oct 2024

Near-extinct North Atlantic right whales get a small population boost

Shanna Hanbury 24 Oct 2024
Banner image of a koala by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Researchers track koalas using innovative airborne DNA detection tool

Kristine Sabillo 24 Oct 2024
Banner image of Joan Carling, courtesy of Right Livelihood.

‘Treat us as partners, central actors’: Interview with Indigenous activist Joan Carling

Kristine Sabillo 22 Oct 2024

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