Mike Gaworecki

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Mike Gaworecki is a journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. He has covered environmental science, forests, and climate issues for over a decade. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Pacific Standard, BillMoyers.com, Alternet, Treehugger, and more.

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Cities may save some species from extinction, but they don’t save species’ ecological functions

Mike Gaworecki 19 Apr 2019

Tool-using, ground-nesting chimp culture discovered in DR Congo

Mike Gaworecki 16 Apr 2019

‘Plastic Soup:’ Photos and Q&A with author of new book documenting plastic pollution and solutions

Mike Gaworecki 3 Apr 2019

Debunking myths about sloths is crucial to stopping the sloth crisis

Mike Gaworecki 2 Apr 2019

Suspected totoaba poachers shot by authorities in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2019

Widespread tool-using chimp culture discovered in Democratic Republic of Congo

Mike Gaworecki 25 Mar 2019

What underwater sounds can tell us about Indian Ocean humpback dolphins

Mike Gaworecki 19 Mar 2019

New MPA established in Philippines includes community-led monitoring program

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2019

Scott Wallace on the importance of protecting uncontacted indigenous groups in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 5 Mar 2019

Forest soils take longer to recover from fires and logging than previously thought

Mike Gaworecki 22 Feb 2019

The sounds of a rare New Zealand bird reintroduced to its native habitat

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2019

Good news from Mexico monarch reserve despite looming deforestation, mine threat

Mike Gaworecki 5 Feb 2019

Cities could help conserve pollinator communities

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2019

The science of combating climate science misinformation

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jan 2019

IUCN’s Inger Andersen: “Women represent 3.5 billion solutions”

Mike Gaworecki 23 Jan 2019

Ocean warming projected to accelerate more than four-fold over next 60 years: Study

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jan 2019

Rhett Butler on how sound can save forests and top rainforest storylines to watch in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2019

Worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused by global warming analogous to current climate crisis

Mike Gaworecki 3 Jan 2019

The best wildlife calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2018

Mike Gaworecki 26 Dec 2018

Every sea turtle in global study found to have synthetic fibers and microplastics in their guts

Mike Gaworecki 21 Dec 2018

The true story of how 96 endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived a New York City beach

Mike Gaworecki 19 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

The true story of how 96 critically endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived New York City

Mike Gaworecki 11 Dec 2018

Bill McKibben on the climate movements that give him hope

Mike Gaworecki 27 Nov 2018

More than one-third of critically endangered plants cannot be conserved in seed banks

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2018

A Half-Earth progress report from E.O. Wilson

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2018

Novel research method reveals small-scale gold mining’s impact on Peruvian Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2018

Researchers say orangutans are declining, despite Indonesian government’s claims

Mike Gaworecki 7 Nov 2018

Research finds humans across the globe have microplastics in their stool

Mike Gaworecki 6 Nov 2018

Documenting emperor penguin populations, a dispatch from Antarctica

Mike Gaworecki 30 Oct 2018

‘The posterchild for entangled marine mammals around the globe:’ Q&A with author of ‘Vaquita’

Mike Gaworecki 19 Oct 2018

Racing to save the world’s amazing frogs with Jonathan Kolby

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2018

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An African wildcat in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. While little is known about the threats facing African wildcats in West Africa, across their range they are at risk from hybridization and disease transmission from domestic cats. Image by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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