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Pressure mounts on EU to curb Brazilian deforestation, human rights abuses

Sarah Sax 9 May 2019

Mercury poisoning chief among health problems facing Peru’s uncontacted tribes

Ramiro Escobar 9 May 2019
2018 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Francia Márquez. Image courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize.

Goldman Prize winner survives armed attack on Afro-Colombian social leaders

Taran Volckhausen 9 May 2019

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

Two-thirds of Earth’s longest rivers no longer free-flowing

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2019

Dismantling of Brazilian environmental protections gains pace

Sue Branford and 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

What we learned from two years of investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia

Mongabay, The Gecko Project 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

Most communities not seeing promised oil palm payoff in Borneo, study finds

Loren Bell 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

When losing your soil means losing your livelihood (commentary)

Sophie Erfurth 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 and 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

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