Let’s use smart tech solutions to deal with climate change, too...
A major solution to fix aging infrastructure to adapt to climate change realities is building smarter – not bigger.When it comes to choosing the...
Museums fighting climate need not fight activists, too
Museums are also climate activists, racing to protect centuries of wood, paper, silk and metal from catastrophe. They’re allies in the fight.
Climate activists have...
With climate reparations finally on the table at COP27, what now?
The question of who should pay damages for climate change-induced losses is finally on the table at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh,...
EU ‘moving the goal posts’ with new timber requirement, Indonesia says
In 2011, Indonesia began the process of ensuring that its timber exports to the European Union met strict legality verification standards, which the EU...
Too late to prevent climate change – Experts share what we...
(Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 11 November 2022) – The climate crisis is here – and its impacts, from wildfires to floods and heatwaves, are...
An eradication program remakes a tropical atoll
Like many islands around the world, Tetiaroa Atoll in French Polynesia has been overrun by rats and other invasive species that profoundly affect its...
How Mitsubishi vacuumed up tuna from a rogue Chinese fishing fleet
Last week, Mongabay revealed a massive illegal shark finning operation across the fleet of a major Chinese tuna fishing firm.The company, Dalian Ocean Fishing,...
More than half of palm species may be threatened with extinction,...
Using novel machine-learning techniques, researchers found that of the 1,889 species of palms with enough data to investigate, more than half (56%) may be...
Delayed Indigenous ‘Man of the Hole’ burial reveals dispute over his...
A court ruling ordered Brazil’s Indigenous agency Funai to bury the remains of the Indigenous Tanaru man, known as the “Man of the Hole,”...
A flying robot swoops in via Quebec to save endangered plants...
Surveying and collecting rare plant species that grow on steep cliffs has been a risky affair for scientists and conservationists for hundreds of years.The...
LED lights could contribute to massive carbon reductions
The world has been shifting away from wasteful incandescent and harmful fluorescent lights and increasingly adopting light-emitting diode (LED) technology, which promises to reduce...
Deforestation is pushing Amazon to ‘point of no return’: WWF report
A new report from the World Wildlife Fund, called the Living Amazon Report, warns that threats to the Amazon have gotten worse in recent...
