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Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018
A fisherman pulls in a barracuda at sunset on the waters of the Casamance River, accompanied by an apprentice. Image by Jennifer O’Mahony for Mongabay.

Senegal: After reviving fish and forests, Jola villages tackle new threats

Jennifer O’Mahony 10 Oct 2018

‘Guardians of the forest:’ Indigenous peoples come together to assert role in climate stability

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2018

The tropics are widening rapidly, but humans may not be entirely to blame — yet

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2018

Dress like a polar bear: learning to love muskoxen at 15 below zero

Gloria Dickie 25 Sep 2018

Scientists uncover what makes deep soil either a carbon sink or source

Mongabay.com 20 Sep 2018

Crop losses to insects will accelerate as the globe warms: study

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2018

Putting the action in the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco

Justin Catanoso 14 Sep 2018

California targets fossil fuel-free electricity by 2045

Mongabay.com 13 Sep 2018

The forested path to climate stability (commentary)

Belinda Morris, Frances Seymour 30 Aug 2018

From sink to source: Droughts are changing the Amazon rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Aug 2018

The Arctic’s oldest, thickest ice is breaking up

Gloria Dickie 22 Aug 2018

Record-high supply and demand on voluntary carbon markets in 2017: report

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2018

Rare mountain-dwelling Nilgiri tahr could lose 60% of habitat as climate warms

Neha Jain 10 Aug 2018

Soggier forest soils thwart the uptake of climate-warming methane

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2018

Tropical forest canopies get hotter than expected, putting wildlife at risk

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Aug 2018

Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

A warmer climate tinkers with Arctic spider’s choice of prey

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2018

DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging

John Vidal 19 Jul 2018

Grasslands may trump forests at carbon storage in a warming world

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jul 2018

Red flags abound as a warming Arctic opens up to shipping

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018

Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2018

Mangroves and their deforestation may emit more methane than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Jul 2018

New research proposes solutions for reducing environmental costs of feeding Earth’s 7.6-billion human population

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2018

Salamanders have ‘tricks up their sleeves’ for weathering climate change

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Jul 2018

Ice-free passage for ships through the Arctic could cause problems for marine mammals

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2018

New research calculates full carbon cost of oil palm cultivation in Indonesia’s forests

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jul 2018

After logging, activists hope to extend protections for Bialowieza Forest

Jeremy Hance 28 Jun 2018

The world lost an area of tropical forest the size of Bangladesh in 2017

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2018

Rwandan people and mountain gorillas face changing climate together

Elham Shirin 27 Jun 2018

The dialogue between science and indigenous knowledge

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jun 2018

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