Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for May 2023
Mongabay’s April videos covered stories about pollution affecting food sources in India, the relaationship between gold and Indigenous communities in Brazil, farmers’ plight in...
Seafloor life abounds around hydrothermal vents hot enough to melt lead
A team of international scientists on board the RV Falkor (too), a research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, recently discovered active hydrothermal...
Not all parts of the Amazon will survive future droughts, study...
A recent study found that the western and southern Amazon will struggle to survive against increasingly extended periods of drought brought on by climate...
Palm oil giant hands over sacred community land for reforestation project
After two years of local organizations campaigning in Cameroon’s Mbonjo village, palm oil giant Socapalm has handed over three sacred sites, totaling approximately three...
A Philippine town and its leaders show how mangrove restoration can...
In the early 1990s, the coastal town of Prieto Diaz, in the Philippines’ Bicol region, was selected as a pilot area for a community-based...
World’s ‘largest’ tropical reforestation project slowed by Covid, Bolsonaro, fires
In 2017, Conservation International launched what was dubbed the “largest tropical forest restoration in the world” and slated for the Brazilian Amazon. Despite a...
Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
The ongoing development of an entirely new capital city from the ground up in Indonesia has alarmed environmental and Indigenous rights activists, who have...
Indonesia legalizes illicit oil palm farms in program slammed as opaque
Indonesia has legalized oil palm plantations one and a half times the size of London that were operating illegally in forest areas.Critics say the...
How will climate change affect Latin America? Scientists respond to IPCC...
Mongabay Latam spoke with scientists who contributed to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report about the effects in Latin America, opportunities...
Guatemala national park nearing ‘collapse’ amid land grabbing, deforestation
Guatemala’s Sierra del Lacandón National Park has lost thousands of hectares of forest over the last two years, raising concerns among government officials and...
Scientists turn captured CO2 into commercially used acetic acid
“Carbon capture is feasible today from a technical point of view, but not yet from an economic point of view.”
If we are to avoid...
Do we need to fireproof solar panels?
There is a limit to how much heat solar panels can handle and fire damage can make them dangerous.
Solar panels tend to be incredibly...
