We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await
According to experts, we have passed the planetary boundary for land systems change — the human-caused loss of forest — and risk destabilizing Earth’s...
Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for August 2022
Mongabay’s July videos show how Indigenous communities in Brazil are recovering native crops, why a coastal developmental project in India is facing protests, how...
For Brazil’s Indigenous people, slavery born of colonization still hasn’t ended
Since Brazil began recording cases of workers found working in slavery-like conditions in 2004, 1,640 Indigenous people have been rescued from these situations.During the...
How satellites revolutionized the way we see and protect the natural...
The first satellite in the Landsat series launched in 1972. Eight others followed, providing the same views so changes could be tracked over time.
Fifty years ago,...
Big banks fund the heavy machinery used for Amazon deforestation, report...
A new report from investigative outlet Repórter Brasil describes how the demand for heavy machinery like bulldozers, excavators and tractors is accelerating deforestation in...
IPBES report calls for accounting of nature’s diverse values
A recent assessment from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services calls for the integration of the variety of ways humans value...
Q&A with Chukki Nanjundaswamy of Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre
The Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre in southern India is one of dozens of education hubs around the world providing a space for farmer-to-farmer training...
Sea life may downsize with ocean warming — bringing challenging impacts
A new model predicts that marine microbes could shrink by up to 30% in the future due to climate change, impacting bigger organisms that...
Water-stressed Bangladesh looks to recharge its fast-depleting aquifers
Water management authorities in Bangladesh have drawn up a plan to recharge, or refill, the aquifers serving Dhaka and other areas, which are being...
Indigenous activists in Borneo claim win as logging firm removes equipment...
After NGOs captured satellite and drone imagery they said showed timber firm Samling operating in deep forest and culturally sensitive sites in the Malaysian...
In Japanese waters, a newly described anemone lives on the back...
A newly described anemone species has been found off the coast of Japan and appears to live exclusively on the shells of one hermit...
Violence persists in Amazon region where Pereira and Phillips were killed
Armed illegal gold miners on July 15 threatened government rangers near the site where British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira...
