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Indonesia says no new coal plants from 2023 (after the next 100 or so)

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 May 2021

A ‘crazy beast’ that coexisted with dinosaurs discovered from Madagascar

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2020

Japan builds coal plants abroad that wouldn’t be allowed at home: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2019

Newly described giant extinct penguin and parrot once lived in New Zealand

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2019

‘Extremely rare’ fossil tooth of hamster-sized monkey found in Peru

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2019

Volunteers find bones of new species of extinct heron at Florida fossil site

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019

New ancient, giant carnivore described from bones in museum drawer

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019
A life restoration of Hadropithecus stenognathus, an extinct species of lemur, based on fossil evidence. H. stenognathus is thought to have weighed between 27 and 35 kilograms (60 and 77 pounds), more than three times the size of the largest living species of lemur, the indri (Indri indri). Image by Smokeybjb via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Human population boom led to Madagascar’s megafauna extinction: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Apr 2019

For Indonesian presidential hopefuls, burning coal is business as usual

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2019
Size comparison between the eggs of an elephant bird, ostrich, and chicken. Courtesy of the museum at Berenty.

Humans reached Madagascar 6,000 years earlier than previously thought

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2018

Land plants may have evolved much earlier than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Feb 2018

Fossil discovery in Indonesia reveals ‘lost world’ of beasts

Basten Gokkon 19 Sep 2017

New species of extinct, kitten-sized marsupial lion named after David Attenborough

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Aug 2016

New species of extinct dolphin discovered in museum collection

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2016

Humans torched Madagascar’s forests 1,000 years ago, driving mass extinction

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2016

Scientists discover giant sperm fossilized in bat feces (PHOTOS)

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2014

The smoothtooth blacktip shark and four other species rediscovered in markets

Frank Izaguirre 21 Jan 2014

Giant turtle-devouring duck-billed platypus discovered

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2013

Rainforests will survive extreme global warming, argues study

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jun 2013

New prehistoric animal named after Johnny Depp due to its ‘scissorhands’

Jeremy Hance 19 May 2013

Industrialized fishing has forced seabirds to change what they eat

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2013

Humans killed over 10 percent of the world’s bird species when they colonized the Pacific Islands

Jeremy Hance 25 Mar 2013

Giant prehistoric freshwater turtle discovered

Mongabay.com 18 May 2012

Humans killed off magnificent Australian megafauna, flipping rainforest into savannah

Jeremy Hance 27 Mar 2012

Meet the dinosaur that looks like a crow

Jeremy Hance 8 Mar 2012

Carbon emissions paving way for mass extinction in oceans

Jeremy Hance 5 Mar 2012

When giant coyotes roamed the Earth

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2012

Paleontologists reconstruct extinct, “elegant” penguin

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2012

Jurassic insect sings again

Jeremy Hance 6 Feb 2012

2 spesis baru dinosaur, termasuk 15-haiwan bertanduk, telah ditemui di Utah

Mongabay.com 12 Jan 2012

2 spesis baru dinosaur, termasuk 15-haiwan bertanduk, telah ditemui di Utah

Indonesia.mongabay.com 12 Jan 2012

Interview with conservation legend, Richard Leakey

Mark Szotek 28 Nov 2011

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