Mother Nature Cambodia’s ‘relentless’ activism earns Right Livelihood Award
Environmental activist group Mother Nature Cambodia has been named one of Right Livelihood’s 2023 laureates.The award, established in 1980, recognizes groups and individuals striving...
Forest restoration can fare better with human helping hand, study shows
A two-decade-old experiment in the tropical rainforest of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, is beginning to reveal that human-assisted restoration of logged forests can increase the...
Salinity hinders Bangladesh agriculture; groups respond with seeds & information
Bangladesh is the fourth-highest rice-producing country in the world, but much of that production is threatened by salinity.More than 30% of the cultivable land...
On Jakarta’s vanishing shoreline, climate change seen abetting child marriages
Maulia Inka Vira Fadilla
Article by: Maulia Inka Vira Fadilla
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South Africa Today - Environment
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Barely making it: A conversation with ‘Eight Bears’ author Gloria Dickie
Gloria Dickie is an award-winning journalist who has documented the state of the world’s eight remaining bear species in a compelling new book, “Eight...
New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s...
Sarah Brown
Article by: Sarah Brown
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South Africa Today - Environment
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Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: Public-private partnerships
Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish,...
From rat-ridden to reserve, Redonda is an island restoration role model
In 2016, conservationists began restoring the island of Redonda, part of Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean, by removing invasive rats and goats.Shortly after...
From Orinoco to Amazon, Indigenous Warao struggle in search of refuge
An estimated 700 Indigenous Warao people from Venezuela’s Orinoco Delta now live in the Amazon Delta city of Belém in Brazil, having fled there...
Experts slam massive ‘discount’ in fines for Indonesian palm oil billionaire
Environmental experts have criticized an Indonesian court ruling that extends a palm oil billionaire’s sentence for corruption by just one year while slashing his...
Climate change detectable in daily rainfall patterns, deep-learning model finds
Researchers have developed a deep-learning AI model that predicts how global warming is affecting daily precipitation patterns around the world.Using the model, scientists found...
First otter sighting in Nepal’s Chitwan park in two decades raises...
A wildlife photographer snapped images of a smooth-coated otter in the Rapti River in Chitwan National Park, where the species hadn’t been recorded in...
