Critics fear catastrophic energy crisis as AI is outsourced to Latin...
AI use is surging astronomically around the globe, requiring vastly more energy to make AI-friendly semiconductor chips and causing a gigantic explosion in data...
Mineral commodities: the wealth that generates most impacts in the Pan...
Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English...
Catalytic Climate Finance Facility opens call for applications of market-ready blended...
San Francisco and Toronto, March 20, 2024—Today, the Catalytic Climate Finance Facility (CC Facility) launched its second call for applications targeting early-stage market-ready blended...
Ancient giant river dolphin species found in the Peruvian Amazon
Paleontologists discovered a fossilized skull of a newly described species of giant freshwater dolphin in the Peruvian Amazon, which lived around 16 million years...
Ecological overshoot is a ‘behavioral crisis’ & marketing is a solution:...
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Suriname cancels controversial Mennonite pilot program, but bigger problems loom
Suriname President Chan Santokhi confirmed to local media this week that he shuttered a pilot program setting aside 30,000 hectares (74,131 acres) for 50...
Communities worry anew as PNG revives seabed mining plans
Coastal communities in Papua New Guinea’s New Ireland province rely on the sea for their livelihoods and culture.But Solwara 1, a resurgent deep-sea mining...
Lula’s deforestation goals threatened by frustrated environmental agents
Brazilian environmental agents worked hard in 2023 to control the Amazon deforestation, with impressive results that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has used...
Comeback on the cards for Asian antelope declared extinct in Bangladesh
Nilgais, the largest antelope species in Asia, are reappearing in northwestern Bangladesh, a country that was part of their historical range but where they...
How effective are giant funding pledges by major conservation donors?
Big-name conservation philanthropy is having a moment, but does the news cycle adequately capture the nuances required when huge new pledges of funding by...
Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?
There’s a new emerging innovative finance scheme to support biodiversity conservation: voluntary biodiversity credits. These are meant to be purely voluntary, “positive investment” in...
Culture of harassment persists for women in Southeast Asia’s conservation space
Recent years have seen an increase in regulations addressing sexual harassment in Southeast Asia, including amendments to Vietnam’s labor code in 2019 and a...
