Traditional healers push for recognition and licensing of age-old Himalayan practice
Traditional healers from Nepal’s Himalayas are trying to preserve Sowa Rigpa, an ancient medicinal system based on ethnobotany, which has been gradually disappearing as...
Local and national food crops in the Andean 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,...
Peru’s crackdown on illegal gold mining a success, but only briefly,...
Peru’s state intervention against illegal gold mining in the Madre de Dios region succeeded in halting the activity for a couple of years, pushing...
Robotic insect reveals evolutionary secrets of the fastest flapping fliers
Insects have been incredibly successful in developing ways of flying, with an ultra-fast flapping mode that scientists thought had evolved multiple times over history.Now,...
Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition
Indonesia’s newly revised plan for a $20 billion clean energy transition has come under criticism for offering “false solutions” that would effectively cancel out...
Any fossil fuel phase-out deal at COP28 must include global shipping...
If ocean shipping were a country, it would be the sixth-largest carbon emitter, eclipsing Germany, so the International Maritime Organization recently set targets to...
Despite progress, small share of climate pledge went to Indigenous groups:...
A report from funders of a $1.7 billion pledge to support Indigenous peoples and local communities’ land rights made at the 2021 U.N. climate...
A robot inspired by a snail could help clean up microplastics
The robot imitates the undulating motion of the snails’s underside to drive water surface flow and suck in floating particles.
Plastic pollution poses a clear...
New volcano toad from Mount Kenya reveals an ancient lineage
International researchers have described a new species of forest toad from Mount Kenya.Working with a single specimen collected eight years ago, the team dates...
Nearly half of the world’s flowering plants face the threat of...
A new study estimates that nearly half of the world’s known flowering plants are threatened.Scientists built an AI model using plants they know are...
What Brazil should have said at COP28 but didn’t (commentary)
Brazil’s President Lula made important contributions to COP28 in demanding that the 1.5°C temperature increase limit be respected, in recognizing the risk of Amazon...
Red flags but no repercussions for ‘certified’ Malaysian logger Samling: Report
A report by NGOs focused on forests and Indigenous rights in Borneo alleges that Malaysian timber firm Samling has appeared to log beyond the...
