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King Penguins coming ashore at Salisbury Plain on South Georgia Island. Photo by Carl Safina, with travel to South Georgia facilitated by Lindblad Expeditions Carl Safina's picture of King Penguins…

The two most popular news articles on mongabay.com in August dealt with the Amazon rainforest. The first was an interview with Antonio Donato Nobre, an esteemed Brazilian scientist, about a…

Many web sites typically experience a lull during summer months and this year is no exception for mongabay. Slower traffic can produce some unusual distortions how articles in rank in…

Beach on Nosy Mangabe, a tropical island paradise for wildlife enthusiasts. Photo by Rhett Butler. A question commonly asked of me is "What is the origin of the name mongabay?"…

Brazil, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Google Earth dominated the list of popular mongabay.com stories for the month of June. Brazil approved the controversial Belo Monte dam, a hydroelectric project that will…

A review of mongabay.com's April 2011 stories. Click to enlarge May was a big month for tropical forest news. Brazil and Indonesia dominated the headlines and list of most popular…

A review of mongabay.com's April 2011 stories. For the second month in a row the most popular news story on mongabay.com was the perhaps unsurprising revelation that Sarawak's forests are…

Asia was the focus for readers of mongabay.com's environmental news section during the month of March: 7 out of the 10 most popular articles were about Asia. Unfortunately most of…

Hornbill in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2009 Mongabay.com, a leading forest conservation and environmental science news web site, today announced the availability of its…

A review of mongabay.com's February 2011 stories. Three of the 10 most popular articles on the mongabay.com news site during the month of February were about palm oil. The most…

In the course of reporting for Mongabay.com, I spent time in several countries in 2012, including Indonesia, Brazil, Madagascar, and Malaysia, among others. Some of my key stories can be…

A review of mongabay.com's January 2011 stories. The most popular story of the month had little to do with forests and everything to do with a potentially overlooked source of…

Mongabay.com, a leading forest conservation and environmental science news web site, today announced the availability of its rainforest site for children in Romanian. The site is available at world.mongabay.com/romanian. The…

A highly regarded conservation textbook is now available online for free. Conservation Biology for All, a book edited by Navjot S. Sodhi of the National University of Singapore and Paul…

The most popular environmental news article on mongabay.com during 2010 was the discovery of Durrell's vontsira, a carnivorous small mammal that lives in the marshes of Lake Alaotra in Madagascar.…

With the help of Juha Honkala, Mongabay.com's rainforest information site for children is now available in Finnish: world.mongabay.com/finnish/. The rainforest information site for children — which describes rainforests, their importance,…

Two groups working with local communities to conserve forests in Sulawesi have won mongabay.com's 2010 Conservation Award. The Alliance for Tompotika Conservation (AlTo) [donate], which works in Central Sulawesi, and…

Week in Forests, Oct 15, 2010 Death toll rises in New Guinea flash floods linked to deforestation The death toll from flash floods in Wasior, West Papua has now topped…

Mongabay.com, a leading forest conservation and environmental science news web site, today announced the availability of its rainforest site for children in Vietnamese. The site is available at world.mongabay.com/vietnamese. The…

Rhett Butler's interview with Kiribati President Anote Tong about the fate of his country was overwhelmingly the most popular news article on mongabay.com during the month of September, drawing nearly…

Sebuah penelitian yang dikeluarkan oleh pemerintah merekomendasikan penangguhan konversi lahan gambut agar dapat memenuhi target emisi gas rumah kaca yang dijanjikan untuk tahun 2020, menurut laporan Jakarta Post. Laporan ini,…

A study issued by Indonesian government recommends a moratorium on peatlands conversion in order to meet its greenhouse gas emissions target pledged for 2020, reports the Jakarta Post. The report,…

Interview with HUTAN's Dr. Marc Ancrenaz The Malaysian palm oil industry has been broadly accused of contributing to the dramatic decline in orangutan populations in Sabah, a state in northern…

A company in Uganda is pressuring the environment ministry to allow it to log a protected forest reserve to establish a palm oil plantation, reports The New Vision. BIDCO, a…

Sunrise in Gabon. Payments for ecosystem services and sustainable forest management may be key components in maintaining Central Africa's rainforests as healthy and productive ecosystems, finds a comprehensive assessment of…

REDD, responsible logging could help preserve Congo forests, reduce poverty, says report Payments for ecosystem services and sustainable forest management may be key components in maintaining Central Africa's rainforests as…

Paper manufacturers and environmentalists seem to be reliving Robert Frost’s age-old dilemma caused by two roads diverging in the woods. Proponents of genetically engineered trees say the road they’ve chosen…

An expedition into rainforests on Ecuador's coast by Reptile & Amphibian Ecology International (RAEI) have revealed a number of possible new species including a blunt-snouted, slug-eating snake; four stick insects;…

Google updated its satellite imagery of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday in hopes it would to help in the rescue, recovery and relief efforts. The images are available via Google Maps,…

The Danum Valley Conservation Area in Sabah, Malaysia is a huge draw for tourists and scientists; a research station has been operating in Danum Valley since 1986. But the rainforest…