Betting on biodiversity: Q&A with Superorganism’s Kevin Webb & Tom Quigley
Superorganism is a newly launched venture capital firm, touted to be the first that’s dedicated to addressing the biodiversity crisis.The firm aims to support...
Independent project steps in as government slow to map Indonesian ancestral...
An independent initiative in Indonesia, the Ancestral Domain Registration Agency (BRWA), has ramped up its efforts in mapping customary lands by identifying 26.9 million...
Can digital twins help save the Amazon? (commentary)
Spread across highland forests, tropical steppes, and low-lying floodplains — all of which are affected by varying degrees of human influence — the Amazon...
The Cloud vs. drought: Water hog data centers threaten Latin America,...
Droughts in Uruguay and Chile have led residents to question the wisdom of their governments allowing transnational internet technology companies to build water-hungry mega-data...
Poisoned for decades by a Peruvian mine, communities say they feel...
Communities in Cerro de Pasco, Peru, have been living for decades with contamination from mining activities, which has had serious health consequences, ranging from...
In Sonora, Mexico, railway project flouts public consultation, threatening fragile ecosystems
Construction of an additional freight railway linking the Sonoran town of Imurís to the border city of Nogales is already underway in northwestern Mexico...
Namibia hosted Africa’s 1st community-led conservation congress. Where will it lead?
Victoria Schneider
Article by: Victoria Schneider
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South Africa Today - Environment
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Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Industrial infrastructure for grains and cereals
Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish,...
As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning
JAKARTA — Activists have reported four companies — two industrial forest firms and two palm oil firms — to the local police over fires...
Critical questions remain as carbon credit deal in Sabah presses forward
Details around a secretive “nature conservation agreement” signed in 2021 between a Singaporean company and the government of Sabah, a Malaysian state on the...
Amazon drought: Much damage still to come (commentary)
The Amazon Rainforest is being hit by three kinds of drought at once: an “eastern El Niño,” a “central El Niño” and an “Atlantic...
In Venezuela, a mysterious fire sparks concerns for rare mountain wildlife
A fire on the top of Mount Roraima in Venezuela has baffled scientists, park guards and local community leaders, who have never seen a...
