Climate change could force 1.2 billion to move by 2050. Is...
In a world beset by rising temperatures, devastating storms, and flash floods, climate migration and disaster displacement are quickly becoming the signal 21st century...
Amazon community steps in to protect a reserve the government won’t
Established in 2018, the Lower Rio Branco-Jauaperi Extractive Reserve still lacks a management plan and the creation of a council with representatives of local...
The dynamics of violence in pursuit of land in the Pan...
Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish,...
Sea levels began to rise during the Industrial Revolution
The global rate of sea-level rise from 1940 to 2000 was faster than all previous 60-year intervals over the past 2,000 years.
Rising sea levels...
For water quality, even a sliver of riverbank forest is better...
Costa Rica currently has laws in place to protect riparian zones along waterways, but they are unevenly enforced.Implementing these laws, even at the bare...
Pollinator declines linked to half million early human deaths annually: Study
A new modeling study finds that half a million people are currently dying prematurely every year due to global insect pollinator decline because of...
Widespread tool-using chimp culture discovered in Democratic Republic of Congo
Researchers spent 12...
U.S. call to drill off all coasts, economic and ecological folly?
90 billion barrels of recoverable oil, plus 327 trillion cubic feet of natural gas lie untapped offshore on the U.S. continental shelf. In January,...
