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Healthy soils can boost food security and climate resilience for millions (commentary)

Inger Andersen 6 Sep 2017

Ever wondered how much your pet’s diet impacts the environment?

Mike Gaworecki 17 Aug 2017
House construction alongside the seawall in Felicity, Guyana. Photo by Carinya Sharples for Mongabay.

Going under: mangrove restoration in low-lying Guyana a vital need, say experts

Carinya Sharples 13 Jul 2017

Study: Brazilian mega-dams caused far more flooding than EIA predicted

Claire Salisbury 5 Jul 2017

Photos: Where once were mangroves, Javan villages struggle to beat back the sea

Elisabetta Zavoli, Jacopo Pasotti 3 Jul 2017

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

Claire Salisbury 19 Jun 2017
Trekkers don headlamps and helmets at one of Hang En's entrances. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Son Doong Cave: Tourism and conservation coexist in one of Vietnam’s largest national parks

Michael Tatarski 16 May 2017

Industry-NGO coalition releases toolkit for making ‘No Deforestation’ commitments a reality on the ground

Mike Gaworecki 10 May 2017

Aggressive forest protection needed to meet US climate goals

Mike Gaworecki 21 Mar 2017

Americans live increasingly far from forests — which is a problem for wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 14 Mar 2017

How ‘jobless men managing the sea’ restored a mangrove forest in Java

Donny Iqbal 3 Feb 2017

E.O. Wilson on Half-Earth, Donald Trump, and hope

Jeremy Hance 17 Jan 2017

Obama creates two new national monuments, protecting 1.65 million acres

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2016

A plan to save the Mekong Delta

David E. Brown 18 Oct 2016

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

Loren Bell 4 Oct 2016

Soil carbon could be key to protecting global biodiversity and climate at same time

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2016

Study finds soil releases carbon for decades after forests are felled

Mike Gaworecki 11 Mar 2015

New study argues the Anthropocene began in 1610

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2015

Human impacts are ‘decoupling’ coral reef ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2015

Humans cause erosion one hundred times faster than normal

Alexander Montoro 5 Mar 2015

Earthworms under threat

Jaboury Ghazoul 6 Jan 2015

Hitchhiking Caribbean lizard upends island biogeography theory

Loren Bell 26 Sep 2014

The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua’s big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2014

Biochar: a brief history and developing future

Ryan King 2 Jan 2013

Organic farming keeps carbon out of the atmosphere

Jenny R. Isaacs 28 Nov 2012

Navy discovers 10,000-sq mile patch of floating rock in South Pacific (photos)

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2012

Scientists discover ‘Grand Canyon’ of Antarctica buried deep in ice

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2012

Proliferation of mountain roads a hazard to the environment in SE Asia

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2012

Warmer forests expel carbon from soils creating “vicious cycle”

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2012

Geology has split the Amazon into two distinct forests

Jeremy Hance 19 Jan 2012

Panama canal drives forest conservation, offers insight on value of ecosystems

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2011

Reforestation program in China preventing future disasters

Jeremy Hance 13 May 2011

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