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					<title>Drought driven by climate change is redefining how disease spreads, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/drought-driven-by-climate-change-is-redefining-how-disease-spreads-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2026 16:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Adam Litchkofski]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Global, and Senegal]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Disasters, Diseases, Drought, El Nino, Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, Impact Of Climate Change, Planetary Boundaries, Planetary Health, Public Health, Research, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[As climate change intensifies, drought is widening globally, causing alterations in water-dependent pathogen patterns, leaving scientists scrambling to understand how infectious disease transmission is evolving. They’ll need to act quickly to predict and prepare for future outbreaks: In 2025, annual drought affected approximately 30% of the globe’s land surface, a near doubling of area since [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As climate change intensifies, drought is widening globally, causing alterations in water-dependent pathogen patterns, leaving scientists scrambling to understand how infectious disease transmission is evolving. They’ll need to act quickly to predict and prepare for future outbreaks: In 2025, annual drought affected approximately 30% of the globe’s land surface, a near doubling of area since 2000. Currently, one child dies every 90 seconds from a waterborne disease. Many species of microorganisms are known to infect humans via waterborne illnesses or via hosts like mosquitoes that need water to reproduce. So, it was long thought that when drought shrank or dried up water sources, infectious disease would decrease. Scientists now know this isn’t true, and a recent paper sheds light on the ecological processes defining this drought-disease paradox. “When people think about drought, they think about water shortage, wildfire, loss of agriculture, et cetera,” study co-author Pieter Johnson, a disease ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder in the U.S. told Mongabay in a phone interview. “But drought is also influencing how plants and animals interact, including how they interact with parasites,” and also which among those pathogens might be winners or losers as drought spreads. A typical river during drought: As a waterbody shrinks, proximity of animals and microorganisms is increased, aiding the transmission of infectious disease — an effect defined by the drought-disease paradox. Image by Arushdeep Singh via Unsplash. The review paper published in the journal Trends in Ecology &amp; Evolution examined 100 previous studies focusing solely on&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/drought-driven-by-climate-change-is-redefining-how-disease-spreads-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Kenya launches $160 million conservation initiative to support communities and biodiversity</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/kenya-launches-160-million-conservation-initiative-to-support-communities-and-biodiversity/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2026 10:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Lynet Otieno]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawhare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[30x30 conservation target, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Conservation Solutions, Ecotourism, Finance, Governance, Plants, Science, Solutions, Tourism, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The government of Kenya has launched a 10-year, $160 million conservation program that will target 17.3 million hectares (43 million acres) of existing conservation areas and community-managed land across 31 counties. The government projects that the initiative, which also aims to establish 2.7 million hectares of new conserved areas, will benefit 1.6 million people and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The government of Kenya has launched a 10-year, $160 million conservation program that will target 17.3 million hectares (43 million acres) of existing conservation areas and community-managed land across 31 counties. The government projects that the initiative, which also aims to establish 2.7 million hectares of new conserved areas, will benefit 1.6 million people and create nearly 22,800 jobs. Dubbed Thamani Asili (which means “value of nature” in Swahili) the program, announced on Oct. 21, aims to secure long-term financing for protecting biodiversity while improving livelihoods, water security and climate resilience through an $80 million contribution from the government, which philanthropic partners are expected to match. Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano presided over the launch of the program at the Tsavo West National Park, southern Kenya, on behalf of Kenya’s President William Ruto. The 10-year initiative brings together the Kenyan government, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC), conservation initiative Enduring Earth and other conservation partners. “Using the Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) model, Thamani Asili establishes a long-term financing framework designed to move conservation beyond short-term funding cycles towards predictable investment, institutional accountability and measurable results,” a KWS press release about the initiative says. Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Tourism, Rebecca Miano, met with officials from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and other conservation partners ahead of presiding over the launch of a $160 million conservation-focused fund, Image courtesy of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). There are four initial priority landscapes for this project:&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/kenya-launches-160-million-conservation-initiative-to-support-communities-and-biodiversity/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-335064</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Water rationing in Recife, Brazil, falls along racial lines</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/water-rationing-in-recife-brazil-falls-along-racial-lines/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 19:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Adriana AmâncioÁthila GalindoYamini Benites]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Science, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Development, Disasters, Drinking Water, Earth Science, Environment, Extreme Weather, Flooding, Gender, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, Infrastructure, Landslides, Natural Resources, Public Health, Racism, Research, Science, Social Conflict, Water, Water Scarcity, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[RECIFE, Brazil — In Ibura de Baixo, a neighborhood tucked into the South Zone region of Recife, Northeast Brazil, 27-year-old Jeyne Araújo’s day begins well before dawn. At 4 a.m., while the Pernambuco state capital sleeps, she scrapes buckets and drums across the floor outside her home. The sound marks the start of a daily [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[RECIFE, Brazil — In Ibura de Baixo, a neighborhood tucked into the South Zone region of Recife, Northeast Brazil, 27-year-old Jeyne Araújo’s day begins well before dawn. At 4 a.m., while the Pernambuco state capital sleeps, she scrapes buckets and drums across the floor outside her home. The sound marks the start of a daily scramble against scarcity: With running water flowing for only six hours a day, she must stockpile every drop before the taps run dry. The water Araújo manages to collect is far from the clean supply one would expect from a public utility. It smells strongly of chemicals and is too unpleasant to drink or cook with immediately. It froths into a thick, soapy white foam as it splashes into the bucket. “It arrives so full of chlorine that you can’t do anything with it,” she tells Mongabay. The poor quality of the tap water has taken a serious toll on her family’s health, says Araújo. For six months, her 9-year-old son, Wesley, suffered constant bouts of vomiting and stomach pain. Doctors at Recife’s Areias Hospital traced the intestinal infection back to porridge prepared with tap water. To keep her son safe, Araújo now uses part of her monthly Bolsa Família, a government social welfare program benefit of 950 reais (around $180), to buy jugs of bottled water at 6 reais ($1.12) each — an expense that further strains her already meager budget. Inside the house, stacks of dirty dishes fill the sink, a visible measure&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/water-rationing-in-recife-brazil-falls-along-racial-lines/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How a ‘living breakwater’ in Hawai‘i aims to create coral habitat and protect coastline</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-a-living-breakwater-in-hawaii-aims-to-create-coral-habitat-and-protect-coastline/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2026 09:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jules Struck]]>
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						<![CDATA[Autumn Spanne]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hawaii, North America, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Polynesia, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Impact Of Climate Change, Islands, Marine, Nature-based climate solutions, Oceans, Research, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Sept. 8, Hurricane Lowell ripped across the Pacific Ocean and around Hawai‘i, sloshing huge waves onto O‘ahu’s west flank and spitting baseball-sized chunks of coral through the window of at least one home. Hawai‘i and its coastal highways, which loop several of the U.S. state’s seven inhabited islands, have been bruised by increasingly intense [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Sept. 8, Hurricane Lowell ripped across the Pacific Ocean and around Hawai‘i, sloshing huge waves onto O‘ahu’s west flank and spitting baseball-sized chunks of coral through the window of at least one home. Hawai‘i and its coastal highways, which loop several of the U.S. state’s seven inhabited islands, have been bruised by increasingly intense storms fueled by warming seas due to human-caused climate change and the current “super” El Niño. But a project in a western harbor on the island of O‘ahu is testing an unusual method for calming the ocean to shield communities and infrastructure. “It’s the first artificial, call it a hybrid, reef designed to protect coastlines, so to reduce coastal erosion from wave energy,” Ben Jones, the project’s lead coordinator and director of ocean science and technology at the University of Hawai‘i’s Applied Research Laboratory, told Mongabay by phone. On Sept. 18, while the island was still wringing itself out from Lowell, the project team sank the first of 60 huge concrete structures 64 meters (210 feet) off Kalaeloa Harbor, an industrial port on West O‘ahu. Eight of the structures, which each weigh 4 metric tons, had been placed as of Oct. 20, Jones said, a feat of engineering that required a special shallow-water catamaran to float the pieces out to their final resting places. A large wave caused by Hurricane Lowell crashes on the west side of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i on Sept. 8, 2026. Image by AP Photos/Craig Fujii/Honolulu Civil Beat. The project was funded with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/how-a-living-breakwater-in-hawaii-aims-to-create-coral-habitat-and-protect-coastline/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Uncertainty surrounds controversial resort in Zanzibar forest reserve as work stalls</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/uncertainty-surrounds-controversial-resort-in-zanzibar-forest-reserve-as-work-stalls/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Nov 2026 06:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Victoria Schneider]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Business, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Governance, Land Rights, Science, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In March 2026, contractors built a wall along the edge of the Ngezi-Vumawimbi Forest Reserve on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, marking the boundary of what appears to be the site of the planned Mantuli luxury resort within the reserve. According to sources Mongabay spoke to, no further work has taken place since the wall was completed [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In March 2026, contractors built a wall along the edge of the Ngezi-Vumawimbi Forest Reserve on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, marking the boundary of what appears to be the site of the planned Mantuli luxury resort within the reserve. According to sources Mongabay spoke to, no further work has taken place since the wall was completed in the first half of 2026. It stands in the very northwest of the island, between a former rubber plantation and land used by local communities for homes and fields of crops like cassava and sweet potatoes. The forest reserve boundary lies just beyond the community land. Ngezi-Vumawimbi is surrounded by 10 villages, with a combined population of more than 20,000 people, according to Tanzania’s 2022 census. Members of surrounding communities enter the reserve to collect firewood and wild fruit, as well as to tend their ancestors&#8217; graves and perform other spiritual practices. Research has established that rural communities across Pemba Island derive around a third of their annual income from forest resources; around Ngezi, the forest notably provides residents with income from the bungo fruit (Saba comorensis), which locals harvest for sale between July and late September. The moist forests of Ngezi host unique species of animals and plants. Image courtesy of Emily Tanganelli. Risk to biodiversity In September 2025, a number of conservationists and researchers published an open letter opposing the Mantuli project in the journal Science. They said the project risked damaging the 1,500-hectare (3,700-acre) Ngezi-Vumavimbi forest reserve, one of East Africa’s most&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/uncertainty-surrounds-controversial-resort-in-zanzibar-forest-reserve-as-work-stalls/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-334746</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Diverse forests can better withstand extreme weather events, study finds. Here&#8217;s why</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/diverse-forests-can-better-withstand-extreme-weather-events-study-finds-heres-why/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Nov 2026 21:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claudia Geib]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global, North America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Earth Science, Ecosystems, Environment, Forests, Nature-based climate solutions, Plants, Research, Science, Solutions, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forests around the world face mounting pressures as the climate changes.  In order to understand how they will fare, new research suggests looking at the forest for the trees — more specifically, the different types of trees within. The study, published in July in Nature Communications, examined thousands of acres of U.S. woodlands. It found [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forests around the world face mounting pressures as the climate changes.  In order to understand how they will fare, new research suggests looking at the forest for the trees — more specifically, the different types of trees within. The study, published in July in Nature Communications, examined thousands of acres of U.S. woodlands. It found that the higher diversity of tree species in a forest, the better equipped it will be to handle the compound climate extremes that result from global warming, such as when extreme heat occurs at the same time as drought or unusually high rainfall. Previous research had already shown that diversity among tree species, broadly, made forests stronger. But most of this research had been smaller in scale, or on human-planted experimental plots. Confirming that diversity does indeed have a positive effect on the vast, complicated systems of natural forests somewhat surprised the paper’s lead author, Xuetao Qiao. “Before completing the analyses, we were genuinely uncertain whether we would be able to detect this relationship in real forests,” wrote Qiao, a postdoctoral researcher in ecology at Peking University in China, in an email to Mongabay. A mixture of five tree species at the Sardinilla plot in Panama, planted as part of the Tree Diversity Network. The plot reached 25 years in 2026, making it the oldest tropical tree diversity experiment, according to researchers. Image by Florian Schnabel. Additionally, most research into forests’ climate resilience has focused on how they weather single events, such as heat waves.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/diverse-forests-can-better-withstand-extreme-weather-events-study-finds-heres-why/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Extreme heat no longer confined to summer, extending health risks, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/extreme-heat-no-longer-confined-to-summer-extending-health-risks-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Nov 2026 20:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Nick Ruggia]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Disasters, Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, Heatwave, Impact Of Climate Change, Planetary Boundaries, Planetary Health, Public Health, Research, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[There was a time when, across large swathes of the world, the seasons fed into each other in a relatively predictable cycle of warmer and colder weather. In temperate nations, frigid winter thawed into spring. Spring bloomed into summer, where extreme heat beat down until cooler weather provided autumn’s relief. No longer. A recent study [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[There was a time when, across large swathes of the world, the seasons fed into each other in a relatively predictable cycle of warmer and colder weather. In temperate nations, frigid winter thawed into spring. Spring bloomed into summer, where extreme heat beat down until cooler weather provided autumn’s relief. No longer. A recent study of four-plus decades of global weather records found that these seasonal norms have been replaced by an expanded summertime with a dangerous surge in seasonally inappropriate extreme heat days, extending into spring and fall. “We already know that [heat] extremes are becoming more frequent. They’re becoming more intense. They’re lasting longer,” said lead author Casey Ivanovich, a climatologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the U.S. “We find that over the last 45 years, both extreme dry and extreme humid heat have expanded in their seasons over about half the globe.” Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., is experiencing an earlier wet heat season and a later dry heat season, which can’t be explained by the current research. While extreme heat days are increasing in both spring and fall globally, researchers note that these shifts vary across regions. Image by Amine Abassir via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). The team, including Ivanovich, Benjamin Cook of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and Sonali Shukla McDermid of New York University in the U.S., isolated the hottest 5% of days occurring around the globe using data from both NASA and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather forecasts. They&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/extreme-heat-no-longer-confined-to-summer-extending-health-risks-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Ecotourism may deter hunters, but also keeps wildlife away, Laos study suggests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/ecotourism-may-deter-hunters-but-also-keeps-wildlife-away-laos-study-suggests/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Nov 2026 14:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Laos, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Camera Trapping, Conservation, Ecosystems, Ecotourism, Environment, Forests, Governance, Hunting, Mammals, Monitoring, Over-hunting, Rainforests, Research, Tourism, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[Clouded leopards, sun bears, and other medium to large mammals living in a protected but intensively hunted landscape in northern Laos might be selecting their forest hangouts based on the chatter of hikers and splashes of kayakers, according to new research. The study, published in Global Ecology and Conservation, used camera-trap data from between 2013 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Clouded leopards, sun bears, and other medium to large mammals living in a protected but intensively hunted landscape in northern Laos might be selecting their forest hangouts based on the chatter of hikers and splashes of kayakers, according to new research. The study, published in Global Ecology and Conservation, used camera-trap data from between 2013 and 2019 to investigate whether an award-winning community-based ecotourism initiative that has operated tours in Nam Ha National Protected Area since 1999 brings any benefits to local wildlife populations by creating a safe haven from hunting pressure. “Hunting is a really integral part of the local culture, some of it legal, some of it illegal,” William Bleisch, lead author of the study and former program director at the Hong Kong-based China Exploration and Research Society, told Mongabay in an interview. Bleisch said he and his colleagues were curious to find out whether tourism created “a kind of refuge” where people would forgo hunting either because they could see the economic and social benefits of wildlife tourism or because they were afraid of being reported by guides or tourists. To test their theory, the team set up camera traps at 59 sites across the landscape, both within tourism hotspots and at more remote locations in the forest reserve. They recorded a total 45 species of medium to large mammals across the whole landscape, including 15 globally threatened species. They found an average 4.58 species at sites close to trekking trails and kayaking routes, and almost twice&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/ecotourism-may-deter-hunters-but-also-keeps-wildlife-away-laos-study-suggests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Experts warn of long-term health risks as Indonesia’s wildfire haze takes a growing toll</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/experts-warn-of-long-term-health-risks-as-indonesias-wildfire-haze-takes-a-growing-toll/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Nov 2026 08:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Yenni Kwok]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Climate, Disasters, El Nino, Extreme Weather, Fires, Global Environmental Crisis, Health, One Health, Peatlands, Planetary Health, Pollution, and Public Health]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Michael’s 20-month-old daughter began coughing and had shortness of breath in early October, as thick haze from wildfires blanketed Balikpapan, the capital of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province. He and his wife took the toddler to a private hospital, where she was diagnosed with pneumonia. An X-ray showed an infiltrate in the upper part [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Michael’s 20-month-old daughter began coughing and had shortness of breath in early October, as thick haze from wildfires blanketed Balikpapan, the capital of Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province. He and his wife took the toddler to a private hospital, where she was diagnosed with pneumonia. An X-ray showed an infiltrate in the upper part of the girl’s left lung. “We were told that one factor that could have contributed to the illness was the smoke, which has also been getting thicker in Balikpapan,” Michael told Mongabay Indonesia on Oct. 14, 2026. With the air quality index reaching “unhealthy” levels in the city, the couple limited their daughter’s time outdoors. A day later, more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) away, in the East Kalimantan city of Samarinda, a 14-month-old baby died after suddenly experiencing shortness of breath. The family of the toddler, Yazlyn Syanindita, suspects she died because of the thick smog enveloping the city. “Her shortness of breath was so sudden,” Yazlyn’s grandfather, Sarno, told Mongabay Indonesia. “She had no previous illnesses.” Her mother Cindy, 25, said what happened to her daughter shouldn&#8217;t happen to other children and urged the government not to downplay the impact of fires. “The government must not turn a blind eye,” she said, as quoted by BBC Indonesia. “Don’t say the haze isn’t severe. Many people are suffering from acute respiratory infections. Yesterday, in the inpatient ward, I saw three toddlers struggling to breathe.” Health risks also extend to those fighting the fires. At&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/experts-warn-of-long-term-health-risks-as-indonesias-wildfire-haze-takes-a-growing-toll/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How citizen scientists are mapping Pune’s trees, with hopes of a greener future</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/how-citizen-scientists-are-mapping-punes-trees-with-hopes-of-a-greener-future/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Oct 2026 16:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Stephin Thomas]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, India, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Cities, Citizen Science, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Fellows, Mapping, Plants, Research, Science, Technology, Trees, urban ecology, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[PUNE, India — On a quiet Saturday morning, away from the usual urban rush of Pune, citizens gather at the Madhavrao Scindia Garden along the banks of the Mula River. Out on the water, two fishers quietly navigate their boat surrounding a dense forested area on the other side of the river; the cooling shade [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PUNE, India — On a quiet Saturday morning, away from the usual urban rush of Pune, citizens gather at the Madhavrao Scindia Garden along the banks of the Mula River. Out on the water, two fishers quietly navigate their boat surrounding a dense forested area on the other side of the river; the cooling shade and chirping birds feel like a natural alarm that you would want to listen to every day. Such a setting is increasingly rare in a bustling metropolis like Pune, where the population is estimated at 7.9 million, yet these volunteers arrive every weekend equipped with measuring tapes, smartphones and a keen curiosity to explore and document the trees in the city’s riparian zones. On this particular Saturday, a group of seven visits a city park along a riverbank, where trees stand tall against the sky. The volunteers belong to Pune River Revival, a grassroots movement formed in response to the Pune Riverfront Development Project, a large urban redevelopment plan along the Mula-Mutha rivers aimed at creating promenades, recreational spaces and infrastructure along the riverbanks. The total estimated cost of the project is around 4,727 crore rupees (about $500 million). &#8220;We started organizing the tree mapping exercise systematically in 2024,&#8221; explains Raghunandan Patil, a volunteer with the group. &#8220;While our volunteers used to do tree mapping earlier manually, at that time, the group was not well-versed in the technical details of how to map a tree properly and create thorough documentation.&#8221; Patil adds that now they&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/how-citizen-scientists-are-mapping-punes-trees-with-hopes-of-a-greener-future/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>After Botswana, Nepal tries artificial scent marking to fend big cats off villages</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/after-botswana-nepal-tries-artificial-scent-marking-to-fend-big-cats-off-villages/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Oct 2026 14:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Deepak Adhikari]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Botswana, Himalayas, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Biology, Buffer Zones, Cats, Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Endangered Species, Human-wildlife Conflict, Leopards, low-tech, Mammals, Predators, Research, Science, Snow Leopards, Technology, Tigers, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — In March 2025, a tiger followed a forest trail through Nepal’s Khata Corridor until it reached a small iron stake next to the path. Attached to it was a dispenser releasing a laboratory-made version of a chemical found in the scent markings big cats use to mark their territory and communicate with other [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — In March 2025, a tiger followed a forest trail through Nepal’s Khata Corridor until it reached a small iron stake next to the path. Attached to it was a dispenser releasing a laboratory-made version of a chemical found in the scent markings big cats use to mark their territory and communicate with other cats. A camera trap recorded the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) approaching the station. The curious cat investigated the smell and then stopped, one of multiple instances of tigers and leopards coming up to these scent stations and then turning back the way they came. These encounters offer an early glimpse into an international experiment seeking to harness big cats’ territorial instinct in order to keep them away from livestock, farms and human settlements. But researchers caution that a tiger turning away from an experimental station is not yet solid evidence that the method can prevent livestock attacks. “It’s a long way from proving that — and we don’t claim otherwise,” said Martin Gilbert, a wildlife veterinarian, epidemiologist and associate professor at Cornell University in the U.S. who helped bring the research to Nepal. “At this stage, we’re asking a more fundamental question: Can these compounds reliably alter a predator’s behavior?” A woman with her goats in the buffer area in Bardiya. Image by Tulsi Rauniyar for Mongabay. Across Nepal’s buffer-zone settlements, encounters with tigers, leopards and snow leopards have led communities to use electric fences, flashing lights and other deterrents to protect livestock and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/after-botswana-nepal-tries-artificial-scent-marking-to-fend-big-cats-off-villages/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>If we don’t start counting insect populations, we won’t know what we&#8217;re losing (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/if-we-dont-start-counting-insect-populations-we-wont-know-what-were-losing-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Oct 2026 15:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Prayan Pokharel]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Global, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Commentary, Conservation, Disasters, Environment, Extreme Weather, Flooding, Global Environmental Crisis, Insects, Invertebrates, Orchids, Plants, Pollinators, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Panchase Protected Forest, in the hills above Nepal’s second city of Pokhara, is known among botanists as an orchid haven. Hundreds of species grow there, many of them found nowhere else in Nepal. I have been working in Panchase for some time now, starting with the insects that live on mistletoes, trying to understand who [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Panchase Protected Forest, in the hills above Nepal’s second city of Pokhara, is known among botanists as an orchid haven. Hundreds of species grow there, many of them found nowhere else in Nepal. I have been working in Panchase for some time now, starting with the insects that live on mistletoes, trying to understand who is there, what they are doing, how they connect to the plants around them. It is slow, careful work and one of the things it has taught me is how little we know, not just about Panchase but about insects in Nepal generally. We do not have a proper picture of what is there. We are still, in many parts of this country, at the very beginning of asking the question. Nobody, for instance, has properly studied the pollinators of Panchase&#8217;s orchids. Those relationships exist, they have existed for thousands of years, but they are undocumented. We do not know which insects visit which flowers, which ones are essential, and which are incidental. That work is still ahead of us. Orchids like this large group growing on a tree in Nepal&#8217;s Panchase Forest need insects, too. This protected area is home to 142 orchid species from 52 genera. Image courtesy of Kumar Paudel/Greenhood Nepal. I think about this every monsoon season, when the rivers rise and the news fills with the same images: fields gone under, families on rooftops, roads washed away. The death tolls come in. The damage figures follow. And then, a few&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/if-we-dont-start-counting-insect-populations-we-wont-know-what-were-losing-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Already feeling it’: Northern Amazon waterfall season ends early, hurting livelihoods</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/already-feeling-it-northern-amazon-waterfall-season-ends-early-hurting-livelihoods/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Oct 2026 14:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Felipe Medeiros]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Culture, Disasters, Drought, Earth Science, Ecosystems, Ecotourism, El Nino, Environment, Extreme Weather, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Impact Of Climate Change, Natural Resources, Rainforests, Research, Science, Tourism, Travel, Water, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[BOA VISTA, Roraima — “For those who live off the river, water isn’t just scenery: It is also a road, work and income.” That is how tour guide Fredson Guedes, known as “Tarzan,” learned to view the natural world around him over the course of his 55 years. “I work entirely with nature and depend [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BOA VISTA, Roraima — “For those who live off the river, water isn’t just scenery: It is also a road, work and income.” That is how tour guide Fredson Guedes, known as “Tarzan,” learned to view the natural world around him over the course of his 55 years. “I work entirely with nature and depend heavily on it. Just the other day, I was at Serra Grande [an ecotourism destination in the municipality of Cantá, Roraima], working at the Véu de Noiva [bridal veil, in Portuguese] waterfall, but now there is no waterfall anymore. It dried up.” In the Amazonian region of Serra Grande in Brazil, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the state capital, Boa Vista, the seasonal waterfall known as Véu de Noiva usually draws visitors from May through early September during Roraima&#8217;s rainy season. That changed in 2026. By late July, the water that defines the landscape had already vanished. Fábio Wankler, a geologist and professor at the Federal University of Roraima (UFRR), points to a &#8220;super El Niño&#8221; as the driver behind the disruption. The phenomenon, unusually intense this year, has triggered a series of shifts in weather patterns that, across various parts of the country, “have caused longer and more intense periods of drought,” he said. The effects are felt daily. The waterfall, whose cascading flows resemble the delicate lace of a wedding gown, sits along one of the primary routes traveled by Guedes, who navigates the Branco River to reach it at least twice&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/already-feeling-it-northern-amazon-waterfall-season-ends-early-hurting-livelihoods/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/early-tech-warning-hopes-to-give-sumatras-peat-community-a-head-start-on-fires/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Oct 2026 12:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Teguh Suprayitno]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Jambi, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Science, Conservation, Conservation Technology, data, Disasters, early warning, El Nino, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fires, Monitoring, Peatlands, Research, Technology, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[MUARO JAMBI, Indonesia — Pineapples rattled around in the basket on the back of Tahang’s motorcycle as he drove through the cracked and dried out peatland in eastern Sumatra’s Muaro Jambi district. Tahang later pulled up beside local residents Ali and Haidir, as smoke drifted in the distance over a grove of areca palms, which [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MUARO JAMBI, Indonesia — Pineapples rattled around in the basket on the back of Tahang’s motorcycle as he drove through the cracked and dried out peatland in eastern Sumatra’s Muaro Jambi district. Tahang later pulled up beside local residents Ali and Haidir, as smoke drifted in the distance over a grove of areca palms, which are grown for their betel nuts. “Did you see that fire earlier?” Tahang asked. “Yes, but it was only small,” Haidir replied. A few hours later, as Tahang rested in Muara Medak village and Ali returned to collect pineapples, the fire spread through dry grass and reached the carbon-rich peat. “It exploded,” Tahang said. Tahang picked up his water pump and raced to the field by motorcycle. By the time he arrived, he told Mongabay Indonesia, state firefighters and disaster agency staff were already battling the blaze, with little water available. A dry canal in the Air Merah community forest area. Image by Teguh Suprayitno/Mongabay Indonesia. Wildfire crisis across Indonesia Indonesia is facing its worst wildfire crisis in years, as months of drought across much of Borneo and Sumatra are compounded by a strong El Niño, which is delaying the onset of the archipelago’s main rainy season. In Sumatra’s Jambi province, fires have burned in Bukit Tigapuluh National Park and across extensive peatland areas in Berbak-Sembilang National Park, a major wetland adjacent to the subdistrict of Sungai Gelam designated as a UNESCO biosphere reserve. Peat in Jambi’s Sungai Gelam reaches depths of up to 11 meters&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/early-tech-warning-hopes-to-give-sumatras-peat-community-a-head-start-on-fires/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Fishers in eastern Indonesia struggle as rough seas keep them ashore</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/fishers-in-eastern-indonesia-struggle-as-rough-seas-keep-them-ashore/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Oct 2026 05:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Global, Indonesia, Maluku, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, El Nino, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Research, Saltwater Fish, Science, and Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Fishers in the east Indonesian Maluku Islands say rough seas are keeping them ashore and shrinking their catches as El Niño builds, according to early local monitoring and interviews. Yustinus Pesireron, a 64-year-old fisherman from Kaibobo village on Seram island in Maluku, told Mongabay on Oct. 2 he had not been to sea for almost [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Fishers in the east Indonesian Maluku Islands say rough seas are keeping them ashore and shrinking their catches as El Niño builds, according to early local monitoring and interviews. Yustinus Pesireron, a 64-year-old fisherman from Kaibobo village on Seram island in Maluku, told Mongabay on Oct. 2 he had not been to sea for almost a month — the longest break of his three decades on the water. He said fishing is the main source of income in the village of about 1,800 people. Yustinus said the earnings he makes from selling his catch finance daily household needs and school expenses for three of his six children. Local monitoring by partners of the UK-headquartered conservation group Blue Ventures shows the amount of fish caught on an average fishing trip in coastal waters around Ambon and Seram islands fell to an average of 3.6 kilograms (7.9 pounds) in April-July 2026 at one monitoring site, down from 8.3 kg (18.3 lb) in 2025 and 10.6 kg (23.4 lb) in 2024. The group said the data do not show that fish populations are shrinking. Rather, fishers report that higher waves and rougher seas are limiting how long they can fish and how far they can travel. “Sometimes, even when the weather isn’t good, we still go out to sea and catch some fish,” Yustinus told Mongabay in a phone interview. “But, as we say here in Maluku, such a catch is only enough to cover the cost of fuel, and perhaps food. That’s&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/fishers-in-eastern-indonesia-struggle-as-rough-seas-keep-them-ashore/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Suriname&#8217;s rich archaeological history may hold keys to conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/surinames-rich-archaeological-history-may-hold-keys-to-conservation/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/surinames-rich-archaeological-history-may-hold-keys-to-conservation/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 Oct 2026 18:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Peter Speetjens]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, South America, and Suriname]]>
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							<![CDATA[Anthropology, Archeology, Conservation, Culture, Ecology, Ecosystems, Education, Environment, Forests, History, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Pollution, Research, and Traditional Knowledge]]>
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							<![CDATA[Suriname pledges to save its forests but neglects the ancient human history hidden within them, experts say.]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2004, archaeological anthropologist Renzo Duin joined an expedition into the mountainous tri-border area where Brazil, Suriname and Guyana meet alongside French botanists and ecologists. While the scientific team focused on mapping the biodiversity of what appeared to be untouched vegetation, Duin noticed that the ground told a very different story, rich with traces of pre-Columbian human occupation. “While they investigated what they perceived as pristine rainforest, I found the area dotted with fragments of pottery and other archaeological indications, including a site surrounded by a ditch,” Duin told Mongabay in a video call from The Hague, Netherlands. The evidence uncovered by Duin was one of many showing that the Amazon rainforest of Suriname and the Guianas region has been shaped and inhabited by people for millennia. Over the years, the researcher returned regularly to the region, making him one of the leading Amazon archaeologists, reshaping the knowledge about human occupation in the rainforest. “In the last three decades, archaeological knowledge of the Amazon has made a great stride forward in Brazil, Ecuador and Bolivia,” Duin said. &#8220;In Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, the picture of the past has improved along the coast and major rivers. Yet, in the inland-uplands we have barely scratched the surface regarding the long-time histories of the Indigenous peoples.&#8221; Renzo Duin in the Tumuc-Humac Mountains. Image by © 2004, Renzo Duin /AMIK. As elsewhere in the Amazon, archaeological research in the region has unveiled a wealth of ancient rock art sites, stone tools, pottery and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/surinames-rich-archaeological-history-may-hold-keys-to-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A town-wide ‘living laboratory’ shows how green spaces can combat climate extremes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/a-town-wide-living-laboratory-shows-how-green-spaces-can-combat-climate-extremes/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Oct 2026 17:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claudia Geib]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, Global, and United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Cities, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Culture, Development, Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Environmental Crisis, Parks, Protected Areas, Research, Science, urban ecology, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[Stoke Park is a natural haven in a busy British town. Centered in Guildford, Surrey, its rolling fields pop with wildflowers in the spring; birds sing and ducks paddle serenely in a pond beside ornamental gardens; and the sun casts dappled shade on the grass from oak, spruce and beech trees, scattered across 52 hectares [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Stoke Park is a natural haven in a busy British town. Centered in Guildford, Surrey, its rolling fields pop with wildflowers in the spring; birds sing and ducks paddle serenely in a pond beside ornamental gardens; and the sun casts dappled shade on the grass from oak, spruce and beech trees, scattered across 52 hectares (130 acres) of green. Yet as residents and visitors stroll, jog and lounge across Stoke Park’s green reaches, it’s doing even more for them than they realize: According to two recently-published studies, its green areas reduce heat, pollution and noise — and have benefits that extend beyond the park’s borders. Parks have a well-documented benefit to urban areas, particularly given the rising heat of climate change: Many previous studies have established that parks are much cooler than the surrounding area, and that they also tend to reduce air pollution and noise. These previous studies also found that air and surface temperatures were lower for tens or even several hundred meters around green spaces, depending on the park. However, “most of the work in this field has been focused around one benefit — so either you see just health benefits, or how they affect air pollution, or overheating,” Prashant Kumar, professor at the University of Surrey, co-director of the university’s Institute for Sustainability and director of its Global Centre for Clean Air Research, said in a Zoom interview with Mongabay. “You hardly see studies which look holistically at the multiple benefits of the plants [or] the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/a-town-wide-living-laboratory-shows-how-green-spaces-can-combat-climate-extremes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Why I sent my archive of nature’s sounds to France (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/why-i-sent-my-archive-of-natures-sounds-to-france-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/why-i-sent-my-archive-of-natures-sounds-to-france-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 Oct 2026 16:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Bernie Krause]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Commentary, Ecology, Research, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[It is a peculiar irony: as technology reaches ever deeper into Earth’s living systems, the primal sonic expressions of the natural world—wind, water, leaf, and creature—have never been more imperiled. Soundscape ecology rests on a simple conviction: the collective voices of the nonhuman world are not only eloquent, but essential. Recorded and preserved over time, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It is a peculiar irony: as technology reaches ever deeper into Earth’s living systems, the primal sonic expressions of the natural world—wind, water, leaf, and creature—have never been more imperiled. Soundscape ecology rests on a simple conviction: the collective voices of the nonhuman world are not only eloquent, but essential. Recorded and preserved over time, these biophonies become enduring ledgers of planetary health, as valuable as genetic databases or satellite images. Over more than half a century, I have gathered more than 5,000 hours of marine and terrestrial recordings. Across those decades, I have heard both the vivid symphony of life and its alarming decline. When science came under siege In recent years, the value of these scientific records—and the ethics of preserving them—has been thrown into sharp relief by forces not of nature, but of governance. In 2017, only weeks after a new U.S. administration took office, a chill settled over the scientific community. Colleagues described research suddenly treated as suspect, funding cut, and datasets removed from public view. It became alarmingly clear that science itself was under siege. Archiving natural soundscapes was no longer solely an act of devotion and curiosity. It had become an urgent responsibility. The danger was not only the destruction of habitat or the extinction of a particular songbird; it was also the erasure of a coherent body of knowledge. Beyond political reach I felt compelled to act. With a sense of defiance and duty, I copied my entire field collection—thousands of hours documenting&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/why-i-sent-my-archive-of-natures-sounds-to-france-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As wildfires rage, Canadian researchers study the life that comes after</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/as-wildfires-rage-canadian-researchers-study-the-life-that-comes-after/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/as-wildfires-rage-canadian-researchers-study-the-life-that-comes-after/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 Oct 2026 14:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Anna Dulisse]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Canada, Global, and North America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Disasters, Earth Science, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fires, Fungi, Global Environmental Crisis, Impact Of Climate Change, Plants, Research, Science, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The reporting and photography for this story was fully supported by a 2025-2026 grant from the Sitka Foundation and the Science Media Centre of Canada. Four of the five worst years recorded for global forest fires occurred since 2021. And 2026 is no exception, with hundreds of thousands in North America, Europe and Africa forced [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The reporting and photography for this story was fully supported by a 2025-2026 grant from the Sitka Foundation and the Science Media Centre of Canada. Four of the five worst years recorded for global forest fires occurred since 2021. And 2026 is no exception, with hundreds of thousands in North America, Europe and Africa forced to flee life threatening blazes. Now, as the Northern Hemisphere&#8217;s wildfire season subsides and forest recovery begins, tropical countries including Indonesia, Brazil and Tanzania are grappling with widespread fires. Wildfires — now intensified by climate change — can be devastating, life-altering, even deadly. But for many ecosystems and organisms, fire is an essential primeval force of nature that supports ecosystem health and biodiversity. “All terrestrial animals evolved in landscapes that had fire,” Canadian conservation biologist Karen Hodges said. “It goes all the way back to the beginning.” But we still have much to learn about post-fire recovery: Canadian researchers are studying charcoal-munching fungi, heat-sensing beetles, birds and at-risk carnivores in British Columbia’s fire-affected Interior to find out who thrives after the flames die, and why those responses matter for biodiversity and for us. Lieutenant Dan, Canada’s largest known living ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), stands tall in British Columbia’s Montane Cordillera, the nation’s most biodiverse region. Many organisms like this one have evolved alongside fire for millennia. The surrounding forest is slated for logging. Image by Jakob Dulisse for Mongabay. A landscape shaped by fire Tell someone you’re from British Columbia (B.C.) and they’ll likely think&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/as-wildfires-rage-canadian-researchers-study-the-life-that-comes-after/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A rare hound with a storied past faces an uncertain future in Bangladesh</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/a-rare-hound-with-a-storied-past-faces-an-uncertain-future-in-bangladesh/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Oct 2026 14:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kamran Reza Chowdhury]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animal Intelligence, Animals, Biodiversity, Culture, Environment, and Pets]]>
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							<![CDATA[Dogs are generally not treated well in Bangladesh, where the majority Muslim population holds a conservative approach to domesticating dogs. Here, kicking a resting or passing stray dog is often seen as amusing. This hostile attitude, for decades, justified the authorities culling stray dogs. In 2019, the passing of the Animal Welfare Act finally put [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Dogs are generally not treated well in Bangladesh, where the majority Muslim population holds a conservative approach to domesticating dogs. Here, kicking a resting or passing stray dog is often seen as amusing. This hostile attitude, for decades, justified the authorities culling stray dogs. In 2019, the passing of the Animal Welfare Act finally put a stop to such institutional killing of dogs. Nevertheless, a deeply entrenched negative prejudice against dogs still persists. For instance, last year, a woman in the northwestern town of Ishwardi, who was disturbed by the neighborhood stray dogs, made the news by allegedly packing puppies in a sack and drowning them in a pond. The resulting public outcry forced authorities to file a criminal lawsuit against her. Bangladesh is home to nearly 1.7 million dogs — 83% of them strays, which suffer from hunger, malnutrition, injury, or cruelty by humans. Consequently, a group of animal lovers has emerged to put a stop to inhumane treatment of stray animals, advocating for their protection. Unlike other parts of the country, the people in the small town of Sarail, located about 95 kilometers (60 miles) northeast of the capital, Dhaka, have strived for generations to save a native dog breed named after the town: the Sarail hound. Proud of this heritage, some people in and around Sarail are trying to save this rare breed from extinction. Pet lovers, some from abroad, travel to Sarail in search of a puppy, ready to pay up to 60,000 takas ($500), according&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/a-rare-hound-with-a-storied-past-faces-an-uncertain-future-in-bangladesh/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>World Kangaroo Day: How climate change impacts Australia’s macropods</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/world-kangaroo-day-how-climate-change-impacts-australias-macropods/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Oct 2026 01:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Cooper Williams]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Yenni Kwok]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Australia and Oceania]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Ecosystems, El Nino, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Impact Of Climate Change, Mammals, Marsupials, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[CANBERRA — World Kangaroo Day, on Oct. 24, celebrates one of Australia’s national symbols and the macropod’s special place in the country’s environment and First Nations cultures. In 2026, as “super El Niño” wreaks havoc across the globe, it is an opportune time to reflect on how climate change has affected the country’s iconic animals. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[CANBERRA — World Kangaroo Day, on Oct. 24, celebrates one of Australia’s national symbols and the macropod’s special place in the country’s environment and First Nations cultures. In 2026, as “super El Niño” wreaks havoc across the globe, it is an opportune time to reflect on how climate change has affected the country’s iconic animals. There are dozens of species — 59 to be exact — belonging to the macropodoidea (meaning large-footed) superfamily living in Australia. The four main species are the red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus), which is the largest in size; the western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus); the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus); the antilopine kangaroo (Osphranter antilopinus). These kangaroo species are abundant in Australia, with a total population estimated to range between 30 million and 50 million, depending on drought and rainfall cycles. Their numbers have been considered so high that state-level governments have introduced controversial cull programs to reduce populations. Lesser-known varieties include the smallest macropod species in the world: the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), typically weighing around just 500 grams (1.1 pounds); the critically endangered Gilbert’s poteroo (Potorous gilbertii); and Australia’s only two species of tree-kangaroo, the Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) and the Bennett’s tree-kangaroo (D. bennettianus), which live in the forests of Far North Queensland. For the smaller species of kangaroo and wallaby, quokka, bettong and potoroo, which also belong to the macropod superfamily, the situation is dire. Six species of kangaroo have already gone extinct since the colonization of Australia, and 11 of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/world-kangaroo-day-how-climate-change-impacts-australias-macropods/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bangladesh’s climate migrants are arriving in cities unprepared to protect them</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/bangladeshs-climate-migrants-are-arriving-in-cities-unprepared-to-protect-them/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Oct 2026 19:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Usraat Fahmidah]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Cities, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Development, Environment, Environmental Law, Fellows, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Human Migration, Impact Of Climate Change, Law, and Mongabay.org]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2024, disasters displaced 2.4 million people within Bangladesh even as the International Monetary Fund predicts that rising seas could eliminate more than one-seventh of Bangladesh’s land area and nearly one-third of its food production by 2050. As environmental pressures drive people from their homes, researchers are examining the risks migrants face in the secondary [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2024, disasters displaced 2.4 million people within Bangladesh even as the International Monetary Fund predicts that rising seas could eliminate more than one-seventh of Bangladesh’s land area and nearly one-third of its food production by 2050. As environmental pressures drive people from their homes, researchers are examining the risks migrants face in the secondary cities where they relocate and whether these cities are equipped to accommodate growing numbers of climate-displaced people. To cope with increasing climate-related pressures, migration is often viewed as an adaptive strategy because moving away from areas exposed to hazards such as flooding, cyclones, river erosion and sea-level rise can help people reduce their exposure to climate risks and seek safer housing and more stable livelihoods. In these circumstances, urban informal settlements are often among the first destinations for displaced people. Yet, in Bangladesh, these settlements are risky in nature because of the structural formation, and the residents are exposed to various hazards. This raises a broader question: Are the cities receiving climate migrants equipped to support a safer, more stable future or leaving them more exposed? A new study published in Climate and Development on climate migrants living in informal settlements in southwestern Bangladesh examines what happens to migrants after relocation to secondary settlements. The study findings suggest that moving away from regions affected by climate hazards does not necessarily mean moving toward safety, particularly when urban planning and social protection systems fail to account for their needs. In Shariatpur district, Billal Hossain breaks his&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/bangladeshs-climate-migrants-are-arriving-in-cities-unprepared-to-protect-them/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Amazon communities lose water as mining and deforestation reshape rivers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/amazon-communities-lose-water-as-mining-and-deforestation-reshape-rivers/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Oct 2026 18:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Vanessa Romo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Colombia, Global, Latin America, Peru, South America, and Venezuela]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Culture, Deforestation, Drinking Water, Earth Science, Ecosystems, Environment, Forests, Freshwater, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Health, Human Rights, Impact Of Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Law, Livestock, Mapping, Natural Resources, Pollution, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Rivers, Science, Technology, Tropical Forests, Water, Water Pollution, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[“People think that because we live in the forest we have plenty of water, but this is the reality,” Erick Tijé, an Indigenous Harakmbut resident of the southern Peruvian Amazon, says in a tone of disappointment, pointing to the murky water flowing down the Inambari River. That river isn’t what it was five years ago, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“People think that because we live in the forest we have plenty of water, but this is the reality,” Erick Tijé, an Indigenous Harakmbut resident of the southern Peruvian Amazon, says in a tone of disappointment, pointing to the murky water flowing down the Inambari River. That river isn’t what it was five years ago, when fishing and life along its banks were very different for residents of the Arazaire Indigenous community. Illegal mining stole their water, only to return it to them polluted. Today, they have to buy the water they drink. On the other side of the Peruvian border, in the Colombian Amazon, Lázaro Ibañez, an elder of the Coreguaje people who live in the Jácome Indigenous Reserve, blames cattle ranching and climate change for reducing water availability around their territory. “The cattle have been destroying everything, and now all you can see is pastureland; there are hardly any trees left,” he says, having witnessed how deforestation to create grazing for cattle has gone hand in hand with the drying up of their water sources. Inhabitants of parts of the world’s greatest rainforest face a paradox: they’re surrounded by water, but can’t use it. For Indigenous peoples, it’s also the loss of the spirits that guard their water sources, driven away by the advance of logging and cattle ranching. Reporters from Mongabay, Colombian news outlet El Espectador, and Venezuela’s El Correo del Caroní, in partnership with scientists from Brazil’s Serrapilheira Institute, analyzed more than two decades of satellite&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/amazon-communities-lose-water-as-mining-and-deforestation-reshape-rivers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/death-of-iconic-elephant-in-sri-lanka-pushes-authorities-to-fast-track-protection-efforts/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Oct 2026 15:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kamanthi Wickramasinghe]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Dilrukshi Handunnetti]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, South Asia, and Sri Lanka]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Charismatic Animals, Conflict, Ecology, Ecotourism, Elephants, Encroachment, Endangered Species, Environmental Policy, flagship species, Forest Destruction, Habitat Degradation, Human-wildlife Conflict, Ivory, Land Use Change, Mammals, Megafauna, National Parks, Poisoning, Regulations, Snares, Species, Threatened species, Tourism, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[GALGAMUWA, Sri Lanka – Residents in Galgamuwa, a rural village in Sri Lanka’s North Western Province are mourning the death of an iconic wild, bull elephant that roamed the area. While Galgamuwa is on the frontlines of one of Sri Lanka’s worst human-elephant conflicts, people had a soft spot for this tusker, popularly known as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[GALGAMUWA, Sri Lanka – Residents in Galgamuwa, a rural village in Sri Lanka’s North Western Province are mourning the death of an iconic wild, bull elephant that roamed the area. While Galgamuwa is on the frontlines of one of Sri Lanka’s worst human-elephant conflicts, people had a soft spot for this tusker, popularly known as Kavantissa. Named after a king who ruled the Kingdom of Ruhuna in ancient Sri Lanka in the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.E, Kavantissa was known for its gentle nature. Galgamuwa residents say it never attacked a human in its lifetime. Rathnayake Mudiyanselage Jayathilaka Bandara is a resident in Galgamuwa and an ardent animal lover. Bandara and another local resident named Kumara dedicated their time and effort to protect Kavantissa and the large herd of elephants (Elephas maximus maximus) that became famous for crossing the railway tracks in Kasikote, a town located between Galgamuwa and Ambanpola in the north west. Soon, this crossing became a must see among elephant lovers and Kavantissa would often emerge at the tail end. Bandara tells Mongabay that the demise of Kavantissa is heartbreaking because the iconic tusker was gentle and disciplined. He recalls how Kavantissa would patiently wait for the herd of elephants to cross the railway line before it made its dramatic appearance. “Sometimes it would pause before crossing the road and journey toward the nearby Palukadawala tank,” he said. “Perhaps that was its way of greeting me and Kumara. Kavantissa would sometimes push the electric fence obstructing its&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/death-of-iconic-elephant-in-sri-lanka-pushes-authorities-to-fast-track-protection-efforts/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Googly-eyed buoys and kites help keep seabirds out of fishing nets, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/googly-eyed-buoys-and-kites-help-keep-seabirds-out-of-fishing-nets-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Oct 2026 04:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Britain, England, Europe, Global, and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Marine Animals, Research, Saltwater Fish, Science, Seabirds, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Off the coast of Cornwall in southwest England, a pole rises from a buoy with a pair of big eyes on top. The head spins, creating what researchers call an “animated eye effect.” Its job is to scare away seabirds away before they dive into the fishing net below. On other nets, a kite shaped [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Off the coast of Cornwall in southwest England, a pole rises from a buoy with a pair of big eyes on top. The head spins, creating what researchers call an “animated eye effect.” Its job is to scare away seabirds away before they dive into the fishing net below. On other nets, a kite shaped like a bird of prey flies from a pole. According to a new study in Conservation Letters, both devices reduced the chance that diving seabirds would drown in gillnets. Nets fitted with the kites had 71% lower odds of catching an auk, the bird family that includes guillemots and razorbills. Nets fitted with the buoys had 59% lower odds. “People may enjoy seeing seabirds around our coasts, but very few witness the moment when a diving bird encounters fishing gear,” lead author Tom Horton, a research fellow at the University of Exeter, told Mongabay. Razorbills are among the seabirds that get caught in fishing nets. Thousands of birds are die in fishing nets each year. Image courtesy of Nina Constable. Gillnets are a major threat to diving birds because the birds forage underwater, where they can get tangled in the mesh, the authors write. Gillnets in the Baltic Sea and Northeast Atlantic kill more than 95,000 seabirds a year, according to a 2024 review. Across all European fisheries, about 31,000 common guillemots (Uria aalge) die as bycatch each year, the same review found. Fixes have been hard to find. An earlier trial of the eye&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/googly-eyed-buoys-and-kites-help-keep-seabirds-out-of-fishing-nets-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Seabird guano and native trees keep islands above rising seas: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/seabird-guano-and-native-trees-keep-islands-above-rising-seas-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Oct 2026 16:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Invasive Species, Islands, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Research, Science, Sea Levels, Seabirds, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Low-lying tropical atoll islands appear remarkably vulnerable to climate change. But when shrouded with native forests and with abundant seabird populations, these islands may keep up with rising sea levels, a new study finds. Seabirds act as biological pumps, moving nutrients from feeding areas in the open ocean to roosting and nesting areas on land [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Low-lying tropical atoll islands appear remarkably vulnerable to climate change. But when shrouded with native forests and with abundant seabird populations, these islands may keep up with rising sea levels, a new study finds. Seabirds act as biological pumps, moving nutrients from feeding areas in the open ocean to roosting and nesting areas on land and, eventually, back into the ocean. The recent Science Advances study traces how energy from nutrient-dense seabird guano trickles through terrestrial and marine ecosystems on atoll islands. The findings show that these nutrients, along with native vegetation, boost processes that build and maintain the island’s reef and underlying structure, even in the face of rising seas. Rewilding atoll islands — many of which no longer support seabirds and have seen native forests replaced by coconut palms — builds climate resilience, as well as benefiting biodiversity, Nicholas Graham, distinguished professor at Lancaster University, England, and the study’s first author, told Mongabay in a video call. “It’s really telling us something about the islands themselves,” Graham said. “Seabirds and native vegetation actually support the resilience of the islands themselves to sea level rise, which I think is fascinating and really quite positive.” Atoll islands of Tetiaroa Atoll, French Polynesia. Seabirds and native vegetation make low-lying atoll islands more resilient to sea level rise due to climate change, according to a recent study. Image by Yadvinder Malhi. Graham and colleagues first began looking into the connection between seabirds, islands and reefs nearly a decade ago. At the time,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/seabird-guano-and-native-trees-keep-islands-above-rising-seas-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bangladesh garment factory workers bear the brunt of rising temperatures</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/bangladesh-garment-factory-workers-bear-the-brunt-of-rising-temperatures/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Oct 2026 16:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Usraat Fahmidah]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Climate, Climate Change, Consumption, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fellows, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Health, Heatwave, Industry, Social Justice, and Temperatures]]>
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							<![CDATA[One afternoon earlier this year, Mridula collapsed on the floor of the Dhaka garment factory where she works, overcome by dizziness in the heat. The 20-year-old sewing operator, who works at a factory in Mirpur, northwest Dhaka, said summer heat often leaves her restless and “physically uncomfortable.” &#8220;The heat can be very difficult to tolerate,&#8221; [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[One afternoon earlier this year, Mridula collapsed on the floor of the Dhaka garment factory where she works, overcome by dizziness in the heat. The 20-year-old sewing operator, who works at a factory in Mirpur, northwest Dhaka, said summer heat often leaves her restless and “physically uncomfortable.” &#8220;The heat can be very difficult to tolerate,&#8221; said Mridula, a pseudonym. Co-workers with high blood pressure seem to struggle even more during the hotter months, she has noticed. After she collapsed, she was taken to the factory&#8217;s medical room. She said the doctor told her to rest, then sent her home. &#8220;He gave me leave from work,&#8221; she said. Mridula was eventually diagnosed with jaundice, which can be exacerbated by dehydration and physical exertion. As temperatures climb, heat is becoming a serious concern for Bangladesh&#8217;s garment industry. Dhaka&#8217;s summers are setting new records. On April 15, 2023, the city reached 40.6°Celsius (105° Fahrenheit), then its highest temperature in decades, according to World Weather Attribution. Then, the following year, the country sweltered through a heat wave that lasted 30 days without a break. A 2025 report by the World Bank shows that Bangladesh&#8217;s maximum temperature has risen about 1.1°C (about 2°F) since 1980. Meanwhile, researchers are increasingly concerned about the health and economic consequences of rising temperatures, particularly for workers exposed to prolonged heat. For Bangladesh’s 4.2 million garment workers, approximately 60% of whom are women, who work indoors, rising temperatures raise urgent questions about occupational health and workplace safety. Factory workers operate&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/bangladesh-garment-factory-workers-bear-the-brunt-of-rising-temperatures/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Recycled glass offers a potential new tool to restore a vanishing coastline</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/recycled-glass-offers-a-potential-new-tool-to-restore-a-vanishing-coastline/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Oct 2026 15:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fernanda Biasoli]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Autumn Spanne]]>
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							<![CDATA[Louisiana, North America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystems, Environment, Erosion, Fish, Landscape Restoration, Marine, Recycling, Research, Restoration, Saltwater Fish, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every 100 minutes, the U.S. state of Louisiana loses a soccer field’s worth of land to coastal erosion. It’s a natural process intensified by the acceleration of sea level rise and human activities like oil and gas extraction and alterations to the course of the Mississippi River. During the past century, the state lost 4,662 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Every 100 minutes, the U.S. state of Louisiana loses a soccer field’s worth of land to coastal erosion. It’s a natural process intensified by the acceleration of sea level rise and human activities like oil and gas extraction and alterations to the course of the Mississippi River. During the past century, the state lost 4,662 square kilometers (1,800 square miles) of land. Vanishing wetlands and altered estuaries make coastal communities, ecosystems and economies — including Louisiana’s $319 billion seafood industry — increasingly vulnerable to hurricanes, storms, and floods. The state has spent billions of dollars on restoration, including using offshore sand and river sediment to rebuild barrier islands and shorelines. But suitable sediment for these massive projects is in short supply. Since 2020, a New Orleans-based company called Glass Half Full has been testing a potential solution: Transforming used glass bottles into sand and gravel to construct small experimental islands and berms for coastal restoration projects. Before such projects can be scaled up, however, the effects of introducing these fill materials into the environment must be better understood. So Glass Half Full teamed up with Tulane University in New Orleans to create Project ReCoast, a five-year research project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation that explores the use of sand made from recycled glass in coastal restoration. One of the resulting studies, published in the journal Restoration Ecology in April, found no significant differences in survival of several native estuarine animals exposed to recycled glass sand compared with other&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/recycled-glass-offers-a-potential-new-tool-to-restore-a-vanishing-coastline/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bank credit remains scarce in Bangladesh where climate risks are highest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/bank-credit-remains-scarce-in-bangladesh-where-climate-risks-are-highest/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Oct 2026 12:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sajibur Rahman]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate finance, Climate Justice, Disasters, Environment, Extreme Weather, Finance, Global Environmental Crisis, Impact Of Climate Change, and Sea Levels]]>
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							<![CDATA[For 34-year-old Saiful Gazi — a resident of Ramjannagar Union in Shyamnagar, Satkhira, an area highly vulnerable to climate change — securing institutional financing is a major struggle. Gazi, who supports a family of four, endured the devastating Cyclone Aila on May 25, 2009. Cyclone Aila claimed 190 lives and affected approximately 3.9 million people [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For 34-year-old Saiful Gazi — a resident of Ramjannagar Union in Shyamnagar, Satkhira, an area highly vulnerable to climate change — securing institutional financing is a major struggle. Gazi, who supports a family of four, endured the devastating Cyclone Aila on May 25, 2009. Cyclone Aila claimed 190 lives and affected approximately 3.9 million people in Bangladesh. Despite living in a disaster-prone region, he ventured into the fish business in 2022. Although he recently applied for a loan from a private bank to expand his operations, his application was rejected due to a lack of collateral and the necessary documentation. He was compelled to take out a high-interest loan from a local NGO to keep his business running. Across Bangladesh, some of the regions most exposed to cyclones, floods, salinity and river erosion continue to receive only a small share of the country’s bank credit, raising questions about whether formal financing is reaching communities that need it in order to adapt to a changing climate. In Bangladesh, there are eight divisions named after the major regional cities: Barishal, Chattogram, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet. These divisions are the highest administrative unit in the country. Bangladesh Bank data show that lending remains heavily concentrated in Dhaka and Chattogram divisions, the country’s main commercial and industrial centers. Together, the two divisions accounted for about three-quarters of total bank loans and advances in the April-June quarter of 2026. The concentration is particularly striking in climate-vulnerable areas. Barishal, Khulna, Sylhet and Mymensingh&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/bank-credit-remains-scarce-in-bangladesh-where-climate-risks-are-highest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Large animals are living carbon stores. Does that make saving them a climate solution?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/large-animals-are-living-carbon-stores-does-that-make-saving-them-a-climate-solution/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Oct 2026 02:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Earth Science, Elephants, Environment, Forest Carbon, Global Environmental Crisis, Research, Science, Whales, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Great herds of elephants once crisscrossed Africa, and scientists have no doubt that they shaped the landscape, ecosystems and — as recent science has shown — the balance of carbon. Though it&#8217;s difficult to be certain of exact numbers, some scientists muse that over the past five centuries, humans have driven a loss of 98% [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Great herds of elephants once crisscrossed Africa, and scientists have no doubt that they shaped the landscape, ecosystems and — as recent science has shown — the balance of carbon. Though it&#8217;s difficult to be certain of exact numbers, some scientists muse that over the past five centuries, humans have driven a loss of 98% of the continent’s elephants. A more recent, often-cited figure from the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, put the continent&#8217;s elephant population at 1.3 million in the 1970s. Research since then has suggested that overall numbers of savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) have dropped by 70%, driven by hunting and habitat loss. Their forest cousins, Loxodonta cyclotis, have likely slid by 90%. As scientists have begun to uncover the interactions between carbon and big animals like elephants, there&#8217;s a been a push to &#8220;rewild&#8221; landscapes for the benefit of the climate. The ocean&#8217;s massive whales similarly offer that potential. As the largest animals that have ever existed on Earth, their bodies alone serve as substantial reservoirs that could keep climate-warming carbon out of the atmosphere over the course of the decades (or more) that they live. Other research has sketched out a whale pump: Whales’ nutrient-rich waste also supports phytoplankton, which absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide. Cetacean contributions to carbon sequestration continue even after they die, as their bodies sometimes sink to the ocean floor, where a range of deep-sea organisms feed on them, keeping that carbon out of the atmosphere. Centuries of hunting have&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/large-animals-are-living-carbon-stores-does-that-make-saving-them-a-climate-solution/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Loss of a rare lake reveals how warming has hit the Canadian Arctic’s ‘planetary fridge’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/loss-of-a-rare-lake-reveals-how-warming-has-hit-the-canadian-arctics-planetary-fridge/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Oct 2026 22:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arctic, Canada, and North America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Earth Science, Environment, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Ice Shelves, Impact Of Climate Change, Marine, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Research, Sea Ice, and Temperatures]]>
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							<![CDATA[When an ice shelf blocks a polar fjord, it sparks the creation of an ecosystem like no other: the epishelf lake. Meltwater pools up behind the ice shelf, floating above the denser seawater, with both freshwater and marine species found in distinct layers within the same water column. But Canada’s last known epishelf lake, at [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When an ice shelf blocks a polar fjord, it sparks the creation of an ecosystem like no other: the epishelf lake. Meltwater pools up behind the ice shelf, floating above the denser seawater, with both freshwater and marine species found in distinct layers within the same water column. But Canada’s last known epishelf lake, at Milne Fjord on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, is gone. The lake drained out to sea after the Milne Ice Shelf calved in 2020, and it won’t return, according to a recent study published in Scientific Reports. Ellesmere Island lies within the Last Ice Area, a region of the Arctic that scientists have long thought would retain its sea ice longer than elsewhere as the planet warms. The changes at Milne Fjord are a signal of accelerating climate change, with implications for the entire planet. “What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic,” study co-author Derek Mueller, a professor at Carleton University in Ontario, told Mongabay in a video call. Meltwater lakes form in the depressions of Milne Ice Shelf every summer. Image by Jérémie Bonneau. In the past, ice shelves dammed Ellesmere’s many fjords, with an estimated 10 to 17 epishelf lakes perched along its north coast as recently as the 20th century. But over the past several decades, dramatic warming, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, has transformed this region. One by one, giant ice shelves have split and calved, allowing the epishelf lakes to drain away. When the massive 65-meter-deep&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/loss-of-a-rare-lake-reveals-how-warming-has-hit-the-canadian-arctics-planetary-fridge/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Celebrity shark trapped in South Korean canal stirs concerns over warming seas</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/celebrity-shark-trapped-in-south-korean-canal-stirs-concerns-over-warming-seas/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Oct 2026 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Kelly Kasulis-Cho]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Yenni Kwok]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, East Asia, and South Korea]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Animals, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Fish, Impact Of Climate Change, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Saltwater Fish, Sharks, Temperatures, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[SEOUL — Wedged between skyscrapers and a bustling passenger ferry port in Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, a celebrity of sorts is drawing thousands of admirers as it has been swimming for weeks now in a shallow city canal. Bukangi, a shark named after the waterfront park where she is trapped, has attracted nearly 1.4 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SEOUL — Wedged between skyscrapers and a bustling passenger ferry port in Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, a celebrity of sorts is drawing thousands of admirers as it has been swimming for weeks now in a shallow city canal. Bukangi, a shark named after the waterfront park where she is trapped, has attracted nearly 1.4 million spectators since she was first spotted in mid-September in the southeastern coastal city, according to local authorities. At least two failed attempts to guide the shark from the canal to the open sea have added to the spectacle. Meanwhile, online videos of the marine creature swimming amid Busan’s urban landscape have gone viral on social media. The 3-meter (10-foot) female dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus), categorized as endangered on the IUCN Red List, is so popular that she has been named an official “honorary ambassador” to the city. On Oct. 6, South Korea’s National Institute of Fisheries Sciences (NIFS) identified Bukangi as a dusky shark from the ridge between its dorsal fins. Image by NIFS, Fisheries Resources Research Department via Wikimedia Commons. The Busan city government deploys more than 100 workers daily to monitor her condition and watch out for signs of poor health. Meanwhile, the city’s baseball team released special edition merchandise in her likeness, with a local distillery offering the same treatment on its bottles of soju rice liquor. The public has “developed a sense of affection” for Bukangi, said Hong Sun-kee, director of the Institution for Marine and Island Cultures at Mokpo&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/celebrity-shark-trapped-in-south-korean-canal-stirs-concerns-over-warming-seas/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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