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What starts in the Amazon doesn’t stay there: Fires melting Andes glaciers

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2020

Habitat loss, climate change make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda

Thomas Lewton 29 Jan 2020

Young farmers apply ancient agroforestry practices in the heart of Sardinia

Monica Pelliccia 29 Jan 2020

Despite foreign aid, Colombia struggles to rein in Amazon deforestation

Taran Volckhausen 29 Jan 2020

Indonesian environment ministry ends WWF partnership amid public spat

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jan 2020

For Colombia, 2019 was a year of environmental discontent

Antonio José Paz Cardona 28 Jan 2020
Chacma baboons in Tokai. Image by Ted Matherly via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Urban wildlife: Managing Cape Town’s baboons

Heather Richardson 28 Jan 2020

Mongabay editor has now been detained 6 weeks in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2020
Waura man in Brazil. Photo by Sue Wren.

Indigenous, protected lands in Amazon emit far less carbon than areas outside

John Cannon 28 Jan 2020

Our growing footprint, wildlife extinctions, and the importance of contraception (commentary)

Sarah Baillie 28 Jan 2020

NGOs demand inquiry into Environment Minister aid to Amazon land grabbers

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jan 2020

Bringing rocks to a dynamite fight: Fishers take on blast fishing in Peru

Michelle Carrere 28 Jan 2020

Belize officially declares wildlife corridor in key protected area complex

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2020

Melting Arctic sea ice may be altering winds, weather at equator: study

Gloria Dickie 27 Jan 2020

Impending Amazon tipping point puts biome and world at risk, scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 27 Jan 2020

Vale has filed hundreds of requests to exploit indigenous lands in Amazon

Maurício Angelo 27 Jan 2020

Sri Lanka’s divine pests: Peafowl problem calls for human action (Commentary)

A.A. Thasun Amarasinghe 27 Jan 2020
Pangolins rescued from wildlife traffickers. These individuals are at a rehabilitation center in Cambodia. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Conservationists welcome China’s wildlife trade ban

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2020

Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force

Jan Rocha 24 Jan 2020

Unknown saviors of the environment: Thirty-five men create a forest from barren land

Gurvinder Singh 24 Jan 2020

Iridescence helps these ‘living jewels’ hide in plain sight

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jan 2020

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, Jan. 24, 2020

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2020
Philip Jacobson shortly after his release from the Palangkaraya Class II detention center on January 24, 2020

Mongabay staffer Philip Jacobson released from jail, transferred to ‘city detention’

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2020

Window tech could save billions of birds, and it’s already here

Rachael Meyer 24 Jan 2020
Shaman Angohó Ha-ha-hãe, one of the leaders of Naô Xohã indigenous village, poses for a photo close to the Paraopeba River. The Naô Xohã community is requesting to be temporarily relocated by Vale due to the river pollution. Image by Luiz Guilherme Fernandes for Mongabay

After a mine killed their river, a Brazil tribe fights for a new home

Elisângela Mendonça 24 Jan 2020

Covering environmental defenders can put journalists in dangerous situations (insider)

Sarah Sax 24 Jan 2020

Indonesia forest fires push orangutans into starvation mode, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jan 2020

Canada working towards new future for Indigenous-led conservation

James Dinneen 23 Jan 2020

Philippine study finds microplastics inside a commonly consumed fish

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2020
Experts fear that international markets will close their doors to Peru due to illegal timber. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

U.S. lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber

Michael Tatarski 23 Jan 2020

Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away: study

Claire Asher 23 Jan 2020

Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

John Cannon 23 Jan 2020

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