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Meet the new species of venomous pit viper described from India

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2019
Sanazy, from Beheloke Haut, says “hunger” pushed her to start farming seaweed three years ago: she earns about $20 from the crop during her best months. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Amid aquaculture boom, report guides investors toward sustainability

Maxwell Radwin 8 May 2019

Dismantling of Brazilian environmental protections gains pace

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 8 May 2019

New map shows warming waters where coral reefs could be under threat

Shreya Dasgupta 8 May 2019

Counting on eDNA for a faster, easier way to count coral

Stephanie Parker 8 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019
A western chimpanzee in Liberia. Image by Cameron Zohoori via Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Fighting corruption in Liberia through on-the-ground reporting (insider)

Ashoka Mukpo 7 May 2019

Climate change is causing marine species to disappear from their habitat twice as fast as land animals

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019
Indigenous Waorani march through the streets of Puyo after their legal victory against the government, during a strong downpour. Photo by Mitch Anderson/Amazon Frontlines.

Historic win by Ecuador’s Waorani could re-shape extraction activities

Kimberley Brown 7 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019
Aba Gada Kabeto Edamo Wabe(r), leader of the Oda Roba and Aba Gada Azmach Teshita, Sammato Bullo (l) leader of the Hambentu clan pose for a portrait inside Senekele Swayne’s Hartebeest Sanctuary. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese.

In Ethiopia, a community leans on customs to save an antelope from extinction

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 6 May 2019

China, EU, US trading with Brazilian firms fined for Amazon deforestation: report

Karla Mendes 6 May 2019
A Punta Fuego voice actor reads off the script. Photo by J. Sanchez for WCS.

Radio drama encourages Belizean fishers to follow the rules

Ashley Stumvoll 6 May 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

All you need is human feces: The strange world of dung beetle sampling

Gianluca Cerullo 6 May 2019

Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 3 May 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 3, 2019

Mongabay.com 3 May 2019

Malaysia calls on Southeast Asia to back palm oil against ‘unfair’ claims

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 May 2019

Conservationists call for lasting ban on trade in Malagasy precious timber

Malavika Vyawahare 3 May 2019

In traffic-blighted Penang, transport upgrade plans raise hopes and fears

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 3 May 2019

In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves

Aseanty Pahlevi 3 May 2019

Illegal logging poised to wipe Cambodian wildlife sanctuary off the map

Kit Humphrey 2 May 2019
Monsanto Lasso herbicide to be sprayed on food crops showing proper protective gear. Photo courtesy of the USDA

Bolsonaro administration authorizes 150+ pesticides in first 100 days

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 2 May 2019

Changing energy use in rural Africa with power from solar, clean stoves…and women

David Klinges 2 May 2019

Hippos poop a lot of silica, and that’s critical for Africa’s rivers and lakes

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2019

It’s now or never for Madagascar’s biodiversity, experts say

Malavika Vyawahare 2 May 2019

Huge rubber plantation in Cameroon halts deforestation following rebuke

Rachel Fritts 1 May 2019

In Sri Lanka, a tiny new orchid bears an elephant’s name

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 1 May 2019

Recently discovered Brazilian river dolphin’s calls could help us understand evolution of marine mammal communication

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019

Drone rediscovers Hawaiian flower thought to be extinct

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Mobile app encourages Indian fishers to free entangled whale sharks

Vasudevan Sridharan 1 May 2019
Western Chimpanzees at Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by BigMikeSndTech, licensed under CC by 2.0

Western chimp numbers revised up to 53,000, but development threats loom

Ashoka Mukpo 1 May 2019

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