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COVID-19 and rainforest fires set up potential public health crisis

John Cannon 18 Jun 2020

Amazon poor go hungry as Brazil slashes social safety net, cuts forests: Study

Shanna Hanbury 11 Jun 2020

As COVID-19 pandemic deepens, global wildlife treaty faces an identity crisis

Malavika Vyawahare 15 May 2020
Pangolin rescued from the wildlife trade in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Jane Goodall: COVID-19 is a product of our unhealthy relationship with animals and the environment (commentary)

Jane Goodall 4 May 2020
Baobab trees at sunset in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

From writing to VR, finding ways to connect to nature during isolation

Carinya Sharples 4 May 2020

Madagascar’s president promotes unproven herbal cure for COVID-19

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Apr 2020

Decade after BP Deepwater Horizon spill, oil drilling is as dangerous as ever

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2020

How to prevent the next COVID-19? Conservationists weigh in

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Apr 2020
Red howler monkey in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Will the next coronavirus come from Amazonia? Deforestation and the risk of infectious diseases (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Apr 2020

Tax exemptions on pesticides in Brazil add up to US$ 2.2 billion per year

Mariana Della Barba, Diego Junqueira, Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 1 Apr 2020

Chinese government reportedly recommending bear bile injections to treat coronavirus

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2020

Response to one pandemic, COVID-19, has helped ease another: Air pollution

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2020

Healthy ecosystems, healthy humans: ‘One Health’ broadens its scope

John Cannon 7 Nov 2019

Malaria surges in deforested parts of the Amazon, study finds

John Cannon 23 Oct 2019

Decolonizing trees in a tropical city to nurture multi-cultural identity

Carinya Sharples 13 Sep 2019

Slight warming could be enough to heighten risk of malaria: Study

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2019

National parks: Serving humanity’s well-being as much as nature’s

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2019
A venomous snake in the DRC. Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

Congo’s hidden crisis: Snakebites and envenomation

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham 5 Jun 2019

Conservation groups concerned as WHO recognizes traditional Chinese medicine

Mongabay.com 28 May 2019

Saving forests and biodiversity by providing affordable healthcare

Mike Gaworecki 30 Apr 2019

‘Plastic Soup:’ Photos and Q&A with author of new book documenting plastic pollution and solutions

Mike Gaworecki 3 Apr 2019
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Stunting, loss of earning potential linked to Indonesia’s 1997 wildfires

Lauren Crothers 22 Feb 2019

Research finds humans across the globe have microplastics in their stool

Mike Gaworecki 6 Nov 2018

The bioethics of wildlife intervention (commentary)

Elvina Yau 8 Oct 2018

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

Mike Gaworecki 18 Jul 2018

Nature retention, not just protection, crucial to maintaining biodiversity and ecosystems: Scientists

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jun 2018

Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2017
Men and women spend hours sowing rice seedlings and ploughing the land. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

To feed a growing population, farms chew away at Madagascar’s forests

Dan Ashby, Lucy Taylor 17 Nov 2017

Deforestation in Cambodia linked to ill health in children

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Sep 2017

Manmade noise pollution even more prevalent in US protected areas than researchers expected

Mike Gaworecki 16 May 2017

Paying for healthcare with trees: win-win for orangutans and communities

Claire Salisbury 28 Mar 2017

Forests provide a nutritional boon to some communities, research shows

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2017

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