Financial downturn at Enviva could mean trouble for biomass energy

Financial downturn at Enviva could mean trouble for biomass energy

Enviva harvests trees to manufacture millions of tons of wood pellets annually in the U.S. Southeast to supply the biomass energy demands of nations...
Head of Verra, top carbon credit certifier, to leave in June

Head of Verra, top carbon credit certifier, to leave in June

David Antonioli is the founding CEO of Verra, the world’s most prominent carbon credit standards organization.Antonioli will leave the post in June amid increasing...
Argentines try to stop oil and gas exploration off ‘The Happy’ tourist coast

Argentines try to stop oil and gas exploration off ‘The Happy’...

An authorization to explore for hydrocarbons in Argentine waters has the cities and towns along the coast of Buenos Aires province on edge.Prospecting using...
Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

The largest remaining seagrass meadows in the Mediterranean are in Tunisia’s Gulf of Gabès, a hotspot for biodiversity and fishing.But illegal bottom trawling and...
Greater Mekong proves an ark of biodiversity, with 380 new species in a year

Greater Mekong proves an ark of biodiversity, with 380 new species...

Scientists described 380 new-to-science species from the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia between 2021 and 2022.Researchers working in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and...
Venezuela’s hidden runways bring both life and destruction to Indigenous lands

Venezuela’s hidden runways bring both life and destruction to Indigenous lands

At least 42 airstrips, mostly short dirt tracks found deep into the jungle, enable gold mining activities that undermine river and forest ecosystems in...
Q&A with author Tim Killeen

Q&A with author Tim Killeen

Tim Killeen is an ecologist and conservation biologist with a background in disciplines including genetics, botany and taxonomy, who has recently completed the second...
Sweltering heat wave hits Sri Lanka; climate change will likely bring more

Sweltering heat wave hits Sri Lanka; climate change will likely bring...

As a heat wave sweeps across Asia, Sri Lanka continues to issue heat warnings to the public as the country experiences much higher than...
Early release for imprisoned climate activist as Vietnam aims for net zero goals

Early release for imprisoned climate activist as Vietnam aims for net...

Vietnamese climate activist Nguy Thi Khanh was quietly released from prison this month, five months earlier than scheduled.No reasoning has been given for Khanh’s...
Melting Arctic sea ice is changing bowhead whale migrations, study finds

Melting Arctic sea ice is changing bowhead whale migrations, study finds

Research has found that some bowhead whales in the Bering–Chukchi–Beaufort (BCB) population are no longer migrating to the northwestern Bering Sea in the winter...
A perfect storm in the Amazon A perfect storm in the Amazon

A perfect storm in the Amazon A perfect storm in the...

Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish,...
Don’t destroy Earth on the way to Mars (commentary)

Don’t destroy Earth on the way to Mars (commentary)

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s drive for humanity to become a “multi-planetary species” comes with great irony if this very activity accelerates degradation of the...