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In Panama, a tiny rainfrog named after Greta Thunberg endures

Liz Kimbrough 11 Jan 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2021

New study helps cattle ranchers monitor ecological impact on U.S. rangelands

Maxwell Radwin 12 Nov 2021

Study chronicles dying of a lake in PNG with advent of oil & gas activities

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Oct 2021

From Shanghai Knights to gecko life: The Jackie Chan gecko among 12 new Indian species

Liz Kimbrough 7 Oct 2021

Oil spills plague Venezuelan coast, but cleanup efforts are lacking: Report

Maxwell Radwin 4 Oct 2021
or orangutan by Dupan Pandu via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

New study identifies regions of greatest conservation potential for species, water quality, carbon

Liz Kimbrough 28 Sep 2021

Build around the forest, not through it, study says of Sumatra trucking road

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2021

In Brazil’s Acre, smoke from fires threatens health, could worsen COVID-19

Liz Kimbrough 18 Aug 2021

Soil and its promise as a climate solution: A primer

Mareli Sanchez-Julia 10 Aug 2021

Rare pygmy chameleon, lost to science, found in dwindling Malawi forest

Liz Kimbrough 3 Aug 2021

Protected areas keep adjacent lands safe, but face losing their own protection

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Brazil’s Amazon is now a carbon source, unprecedented study reveals

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jul 2021

Indonesia bets on biofuels over oil, but EVs could render both moot

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2021

Environmental benefits or social — but rarely both — under RSPO, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Jun 2021
Colorado's East Troublesome Fire, on October 22, 2020, which jumped the Continental Divide and eventually became Colorado's largest fire on record, at nearly 200,000 acres. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Rocky Mountains are burning more now than ever, and it could get worse

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jun 2021

Lean times leave orangutans wasting away. Habitat loss makes things worse

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2021
Staff member of the Kinesi nursery planting seedlings in the pots, August 2019 ©WeForest

How to pick a tree-planting project? Mongabay launches transparency tool to help supporters decide

Liz Kimbrough 17 May 2021

Only 6.5% of global forests are adequately protected, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 31 Mar 2021
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

We have turned the Amazon into a net greenhouse gas emitter: Study

Liz Kimbrough 19 Mar 2021

Palm oil conflicts persist amid lack of resolution in Indonesian Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2021
Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest

We’re killing those tropical trees we’re counting on to absorb carbon dioxide

Fernanda Wenzel 24 Feb 2021

As forests shrink, mammals are stressed out— with possible fallout for humans

Liz Kimbrough 15 Feb 2021

As nature declines, so does human quality of life, study finds

Ashoka Mukpo 9 Feb 2021

A wet Amazon may be more resilient to a drying climate than thought: Study

Claire Asher 3 Feb 2021

Lasers find forest gaps to aid tree mortality studies in Brazilian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jan 2021
Photo: The newly discovered orchid, Epidendrum katarun-yariku. Image courtesy of Mateusz Wrazidlo.

New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by Indigenous group

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jan 2021
: Scarab beetles on little white flowers in the canopy. Image by Susan Kirmse (CC BY-ND).

Canopy beetles and flowering trees rely on each other in the Amazon, study

Liz Kimbrough 6 Jan 2021
Rainforest tree with magenta flowers

Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees

Liz Kimbrough 22 Dec 2020
Farmers cut grass and shrub fodder for their livestock. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese for Mongabay.

Land inequality is worsening and fueling other social ills, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Dec 2020

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