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How a wind farm on Brazil’s coast erased a fishing village from the map

Lobato Felizola 14 Mar 2024
A bridge in Masungi Georeserve.

Surprise discovery of wind farm project in Philippine reserve prompts alarm

Keith Anthony Fabro 5 Mar 2024
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Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

Natalia Torres Garzón 9 Nov 2023
Smoke from a factory chimney.

How nonprofit journalism revealed many problems with the UN’s climate neutrality claims

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Oct 2023
José Martins and another fisher.

In Brazil, rural communities are caught in the eye of the wind farm storm

Giovanna Carneiro, Arnaldo Sete, Marco Zero 4 Sep 2023

For Caatinga’s last jaguars and pumas, wind farms are the newest threat

Suzana Camargo 22 Aug 2023

Fair winds or fowl: Clean energy clashes with conservation in Brazil’s Caatinga

Suzana Camargo 14 Aug 2023
Birds flying through wind turbines.

What’s black and white and spins? Wind turbines that don’t kill birds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2023
A caracal in Africa.

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for May 2022

Mongabay.com 3 May 2022
A modern sailing vessel passes a fossil-fueled container ship. Image via Visualhunt.

New age of sail looks to slash massive maritime carbon emissions

Andrew Willner 15 Mar 2021

Analysis: Vietnam’s leadership flex shows how to drive electricity reform

David E. Brown 6 Aug 2020

In the Philippines’ Boracay, flying foxes are going, going, gone

Jun N. Aguirre 27 Apr 2020

New UN report takes stock of renewable energy’s decade-long growth spurt

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2019

Shift to renewable energy could have biodiversity cost, researchers caution

Ashley Stumvoll 18 Jun 2019

Putting the Blue in the Green New Deal (commentary)

David Helvarg, Jason Scorse 13 Mar 2019

Jammin’ at wind farms may help save bats

Mary Bates 11 Feb 2019

Decoding the language of bats key to their conservation

Javier Lyonnet 8 Oct 2018

Power lines killing the last remaining Great Indian Bustards in India

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2017

Temer uses controversial deforestation data in speech to UN

Sue Branford 21 Sep 2017

Bats and viruses: Beating back a bad reputation

John Cannon 29 Aug 2017

Renewable energy to power 139 countries? Scientists say it’s possible

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2017

Elusive seabird breeding grounds discovered in Chilean desert

Kim Smuga-Otto 16 Jun 2017

From black gold to wind and solar: How China is turning its back on coal

Denise Hruby 13 Apr 2017

Bat threats difficult to anticipate on wind farms

John Cannon 7 Nov 2016

Global carbon dioxide emissions stay flat for second year in a row

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2016

Can a virtual fence help protect birds from human structures?

Julia John 11 Feb 2016

Court cancels 30-year federal permits letting wind companies kill eagles

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Dec 2015

Energy Sprawl: Comparing biodiversity impacts of oil, gas and wind production

Taryn Farber 8 May 2015

Coal’s future carbon costs may make it more expensive than wind energy

Matt Davenport 15 Nov 2013

New wind power cheaper than coal or gas in Australia

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2013

Google invests $200m in west Texas wind farm

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2013

Wind can power the world, says two new studies

Jeremy Hance 10 Sep 2012

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