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When it comes to carbon storage, not all mangroves are equal

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Aug 2018
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Technological breakthroughs are changing how researchers observe the world’s fishing fleet

Nadine Freischlad 14 Aug 2018

Industrial fishing is dominated by just a few of the world’s wealthiest nations

Mongabay.com 14 Aug 2018

The tropics are in trouble, warn scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Aug 2018

RSPO should ban deforestation, say investors representing $6.7t in assets

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, August 10, 2018

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2018
Men loading sardines for export into the back of a pickup truck in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Industrial fishing fleets traveling farther to reel in fewer fish

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2018

Beavers matter more than you think

Mike Gaworecki 7 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

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, August 3, 2018

Mongabay.com 3 Aug 2018

Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, July 27, 2018

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2018

Global marine wilderness has dwindled to 13 percent, new map reveals

John Cannon 26 Jul 2018

Why mangroves matter: Experts respond on International Mangrove Day

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Jul 2018

Number of murdered environmental activists rose once again in 2017

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2018

Indigenous stewardship is critical to success of protected areas (commentary)

Michael Painter, David Wilkie, James Watson 25 Jul 2018

Shadow companies and the Indonesian land crisis

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jul 2018

One-third of global fisheries operating at biologically unsustainable levels

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, July 20, 2018

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2018

First fern genomes sequenced — and they hold a lot of promise

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2018

Grasslands may trump forests at carbon storage in a warming world

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jul 2018

RSPO walks back suspension of Nestlé

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2018

How a better understanding of psychopathology in captive primates can aid in conservation efforts

Mike Gaworecki 18 Jul 2018

Indigenous peoples control one-quarter of world’s land surface, two-thirds of that land is ‘essentially natural’

Mongabay.com 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

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, July 13, 2018

John Cannon 13 Jul 2018

Extractive industries threaten a million square kilometers of intact tropical forests around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2018

Solution to ocean’s plastic waste problem ‘starts with product design’

John Cannon 12 Jul 2018

Online mapping tool tracks land-use changes down to the farm

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 12 Jul 2018

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