Mike DiGirolamo

Mike DiGirolamo

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Mike DiGirolamo is the host and producer of The Mongabay Newscast. He is based in Sydney, Australia. Find him on LinkedIn, and BlueSky.

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‘These stories deserve to be told’: Shining a light on secretive fisheries managers

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2024
A humpback whale

Top Mongabay podcast picks for 2024

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Dec 2024

What’s the TFFF? A forest finance tool ‘like no other’ shows potential

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Dec 2024

Time for a ‘moral reckoning’ of aquaculture’s environmental impacts

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 10 Dec 2024

Researchers propose a ‘circular economy’ solution to housing affordability against climate change

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Dec 2024
Rainforest in Boven Digoel. Image by Ulet Ifansasti for Greenpeace.

How nature protection and inspiring art are key to planetary health & preventing pandemics

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Nov 2024
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology’s Lappeenranta campus.

As nations develop circular economy plans, Finland’s top expert shares how they lead the way

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Nov 2024
Todd Smith dreamt of being an airline pilot since he was five years old. He left the aviation industry in 2020, and is now working to reform it. Image by Helena Dolby. Courtesy of Todd Smith.

Grounded: A pilot who quit flying to help tackle climate change works to change aviation, for good

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Nov 2024
A car charging.

Fixing EVs’ ecological and social problems needs circularity and transport redesign

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Nov 2024
Hammerhead sharks.

‘Don’t call it the high seas treaty’: Ocean biodiversity risks being sidelined in new deal

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 29 Oct 2024

Australia’s Global ‘Nature Positive’ Summit features Indigenous voices, but little government action

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Oct 2024

Mongabay celebrates 25 years with Jane Goodall at sold out event

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Oct 2024

Indigenous perspectives and a fossil fuel phaseout treaty featured at Climate Week

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Oct 2024

High CO2 levels are greening the world’s drylands, but is that good news?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 1 Oct 2024

A future where we might ‘get climate right’: A conversation with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Sep 2024

Community forest or corporate fortune? How public land became a mine in Cambodia

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2024

How do ‘rights of nature’ and ‘legal personhood’ laws differ, and what’s their conservation potential?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 3 Sep 2024
Drone image of the erodible bluff (bottom) being stabilized by tiers of logs pinned to the ground, back-filled with soil, and planted among erosion-slowing rocks to keep the rising waters at bay, for a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

How coastal communities are adapting to sea level rise with ‘living shorelines’

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Aug 2024
Researchers Luciana Gallo (left) and Marcela Uhart (right) sampling for the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza strain (HPAI) of the H5N1 virus in Punta Leon, Argentina in early November 2023.

As bird flu outbreak kills myriad wildlife species, virologists eye threat to humans

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Aug 2024

National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yüyan on why Indigenous peoples are the best conservationists

Mike DiGirolamo 13 Aug 2024

Indian bioacoustics researchers boost wildlife conservation with exciting animal insights

Mike DiGirolamo 6 Aug 2024

How an international effort is keeping North America free of a deadly amphibian disease

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Jul 2024

As New England forests are razed for solar power, experts urge smarter siting

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Jul 2024
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Harnessing ‘invisible forests in plain view’ to reforest the world

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Jul 2024

Indigenous communities in Sarawak left in the dark about hydropower proposal

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 9 Jul 2024

In ‘the century of Africa,’ Mongabay’s new bureau reports its biggest environmental issues and solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Jun 2024

If forests truly drive wind and water cycles, what does it mean for the climate?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 18 Jun 2024

Burning wood is not ‘renewable energy,’ so why do policymakers pretend it is?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 11 Jun 2024

As Wall Street assigns a dollar value to nature, Indigenous economics charts different path

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 5 Jun 2024
A koala.

Australian state fails on koala conservation while relying on faulty offset schemes, experts say

Mike DiGirolamo 28 May 2024

‘Right to roam’ movement fights to give the commons back to the public

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 21 May 2024

The Narwhal makes waves in Canada for environmental journalism

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 7 May 2024

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