Detailed NASA analysis finds Earth and Amazon in deep climate trouble
A NASA study analyzed the future action of six climate variables in all the world’s regions — air temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, short- and...
U.S. auctions off endangered whale habitat for oil and gas drilling
On Dec. 20, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held a lease sale to auction off oil and...
Causeway threatens mangroves that Philippine fishers planted as typhoon shield
The city of Tacloban in the central Philippines was ground zero for Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded and...
Long-term wildlife impacts at Chornobyl, Fukushima may yield ‘a new ecology’
The world’s worst nuclear power plant accidents to date, at Chornobyl, Ukraine, in 1986, and Fukushima, Japan in 2011, and the human exclusion zones...
U.S. and U.K. lawmakers must wake up to the coffee problem...
Coffee is a globally traded agri-commodity that is also a major driver of deforestation, mass extinction, child labor, slavery, and other abuses.The FOREST Act...
Marine conservation technology hub rises from old L.A. wharf (analysis)
In 2014, the Port of Los Angeles gave a 50-year lease to an aging wharf called City Dock No. 1 to a project called...
Other financial systems in the agricultural practice of the 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,...
Race to destroy the Amazon forest: Brazil’s National Congress set to...
Highway BR-319 and planned connecting roads would bring deforesters to much of what remains of Brazil’s Amazon forest. BR-319 would connect the notorious “arc...
Violent evictions are latest ordeal for Kenya’s Ogiek seeking land rights
On Nov. 2, a joint force of the police, the Kenya Forest Service and the Kenya Wildlife Service moved to evict 700 Ogiek households...
Community forestry is a conservation solution in Nepal: Q&A with Teri...
Conservation biologist Teri Allendorf talks about the opportunities and challenges facing the community-based forest conservation program in Nepal.She argues that the program has been...
New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project
The recent approval of two hydropower dams in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains could undermine a REDD+ carbon project in the area.The Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project...
Incentivizing conservation shows success against wildlife hunting in Cameroon
Providing farming support to communities living near a wildlife reserve in Cameroon has been shown to lower rates of hunting, according to a three-year...
