Energy company evades oil clean up as spills continue to contaminate...
Oil activity in the town of Puerto Boyacá in Colombia is responsible for 109 contaminated sites, 37 of which have been caused by the...
Renewable Energy Procurement: Legal Considerations and Best Practices
Renewable energy is here to stay, as seen by the fast adoption of renewable energy generation in South Africa to date. According to the...
Where are the giraffes hiding? Predictive tracking tech points the way
Researchers have combined tagging technology, satellite data and machine learning to create a model that predicts the potential locations of unknown populations of reticulated...
Beach heat: Study shows increasing temperature extremes on Brazil’s coast
By analyzing temperature patterns at five points along the Brazilian coast over the last 40 years, scientists confirmed the impacts of global warming on...
Offshore drilling faces backlash in Argentina after skirting environmental regulations
Argentina granted permits to a dozen major oil companies to develop new offshore drilling projects near the Atlantic coast. But some of them may...
Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: The Madeira Hydropower Complex
Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish,...
Jakarta snags ‘most polluted’ title as air quality plunges and officials...
Air pollution in Jakarta has hit such dire levels recently that the Indonesian capital has been named the most polluted city on Earth.Both the...
‘All will be well’: Q&A with Kenyan fisher turned coral gardener...
Once a fisherman, Katana Ngala has been restoring corals near his home in Kuruwitu, Kenya, for more than 20 years.Early on, the area’s coral...
Indonesian fishers not biting at new policy perceived as undermining them
The Indonesian fisheries ministry issued a decree earlier this year introducing a quota-based fisheries management policy aimed at maximizing state revenue from the sector.A...
Kordofan giraffes face local extinction in 15 years if poaching continues
According to a recent study, losing two Kordofan giraffes each year would lead to local extinction of the subspecies within Cameroon’s Bénoué National Park...
As Bangladesh’s crab fishery booms, its wild stocks suffer the fallout
Crab harvests in Bangladesh are booming to meet thriving export demand, but the rates at which wild stocks are being depleted may be unsustainable,...
Sumatra women farmers celebrate court win against China-backed zinc mine
A court in Indonesia’s capital has ordered the cancellation of an environmental permit for PT Dairi Prima Mineral, an Indonesia-based mining company majority-owned by...
