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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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

Goldman Prize Winner Murrawah Johnson says First Nations must be at the forefront of creating change

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Apr 2024

Consent and costs are key questions on extraction of ‘energy transition’ minerals

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Apr 2024

Resource wars and the geopolitics behind climate-fueled conflicts

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Apr 2024

Effective climate activism requires honest conversations about its challenges

Mike DiGirolamo 9 Apr 2024
While India has the highest population of any country in the world, its per capita carbon emissions rank 110th globally.

Ecological overshoot is a ‘behavioral crisis’ & marketing is a solution: Study

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Mar 2024
Wallace's Passage between Bam and Weigeo islands in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

How effective are giant funding pledges by major conservation donors?

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Mar 2024
A Papuan boy in the Blue River (Kali Biru) of the Knasaimos landscape in Teminabuan, South Sorong, West Papua. Credit line: © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace

Why language is central to the survival of cultures and communities

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Mar 2024

Rewilding Ireland: Healing from a history of deforestation, one tree at a time

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 27 Feb 2024

Can ecotourism protect Raja Ampat, the ‘Crown Jewel’ of New Guinea?

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Feb 2024

HEATED: Challenging objectivity in climate journalism

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 13 Feb 2024

Can ‘degrowth’ solve our ecological, social & economic problems?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 30 Jan 2024

Can bioplastics shape a greener future?

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Mike DiGirolamo 30 Jan 2024
Earth from the International Space Station, showing nighttime lights over Japan on November 6, 2017. The lights are concentrated around three of the country’s major cities: Tokyo (top), Nagoya (middle), and Osaka (bottom). Image courtesy of NASA.

‘Not the End of the World’ book assumptions & omissions spark debate

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Jan 2024
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How independent journalism uncovered a massive crime against people and planet

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 9 Jan 2024

Mongabay’s top 10 podcast episodes of 2023

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Dec 2023
A ranger planting a tree.

Wild by nature: Ecological restoration brings humanity and biodiversity together

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Dec 2023
Indigenous conservationist Juan Julio Durand is a local leader and one of the founding members of Junglekeepers, his vision set in motion the protection of 50,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest. Photo by Mohsin Kazmi.

How creative & emotive communication conserved 55,000 acres of Peru’s Amazon

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Dec 2023
A man carries relief items.

Climate loss & damage fund ‘the furthest thing imaginable from a success’

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 28 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay CEO discusses slowdown in Amazon loss and other positive news

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Nov 2023

Glencore’s coal expansion plans face shareholder and Indigenous opposition

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Nov 2023

Forest elephants are the ‘glue’ holding Congo rainforests together

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Nov 2023

With record ocean temps, is the Great Barrier Reef facing catastrophe?

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Oct 2023
Smoke from a factory chimney.

How nonprofit journalism revealed many problems with the UN’s climate neutrality claims

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Oct 2023

Barely making it: A conversation with ‘Eight Bears’ author Gloria Dickie

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Sep 2023
A wildlife crossing over Highway 1 in Israel. Image by Hagai Agmon-Snir via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Can ‘road ecology’ save millions of animals?

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Sep 2023
Patagonia. Photo credit: Nancy Butler

‘In business to save the planet,’ Patagonia says people & planet should be the priority of corporations

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Sep 2023

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