Leveraging the hypothetical: The uncertain world of carbon credit calculations

Leveraging the hypothetical: The uncertain world of carbon credit calculations

Criticisms of the voluntary carbon trade and forest conservation strategies like REDD+ have centered largely on the carbon accounting methods used to calculate credits.Each...
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Media launches Horizon documentary on Netflix, about wildlife in the Kingdom

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Media launches Horizon documentary on Netflix, about...

Konoz, an initiative of the Saudi Ministry of Media’s Center for Government Communication, launched “Horizon”, a new documentary documenting the Kingdom’s rich biodiversity and...
VIDEO: Unmasking the environmental impact of tires | Consumed

VIDEO: Unmasking the environmental impact of tires | Consumed

Ever since they were invented, tires have changed the way we live; today, we produce almost 2.5 billion tires annually.However, the way we make,...
[Photos] New book is a stunning glimpse of Asia’s wildlife and landscapes

[Photos] New book is a stunning glimpse of Asia’s wildlife and...

A new photo book by authors and photographers Bjorn Olesen and Fanny Lai aims to raise awareness of Asia’s impressive biodiversity and protected areas,...
A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future

A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to...

In the decades following the U.S. war in Vietnam, the Vietnamese government championed intensive farming methods that boosted rice harvests and turned the country...
Promise of full demarcation for isolated Amazon tribe rings hollow for some

Promise of full demarcation for isolated Amazon tribe rings hollow for...

The 23-year struggle to declare a territory for the isolated Kawahiva people of the Brazilian Amazon could finally conclude this year after the government...
Spain sanctions fishing vessels for illegally ‘going dark’ near Argentine waters

Spain sanctions fishing vessels for illegally ‘going dark’ near Argentine waters

The Spanish government sanctioned 25 of its vessels for illegally turning off their satellite tracking devices while fishing off the coast of Argentina between...
AI and satellite data map true scale of untracked fishing and ocean industry

AI and satellite data map true scale of untracked fishing and...

A new study shows that more than 75% of industrial fishing activity and almost 30% of transport and energy activity in the oceans has...
U.S. mining companies leave lasting trail of contamination across Peru

U.S. mining companies leave lasting trail of contamination across Peru

Roberth Orihuela Article by: Roberth Orihuela This story first appeared on Mongabay South Africa Today - Environment This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0...
Obtaining a certified legal title in the Pan Amazon

Obtaining a certified legal title in the Pan Amazon

Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish,...
Conservation X Labs announces merger with AI nonprofit Wild Me

Conservation X Labs announces merger with AI nonprofit Wild Me

Conservation technology company Conservation X Labs has announced a merger with Wild Me, a nonprofit that focuses on using artificial intelligence for conservation purposes.The...
2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Nearly 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres, an area 15 times the size of Jakarta) burned in Indonesia between January and October 2023, according...