A Philippine town and its leaders show how mangrove restoration can...
In the early 1990s, the coastal town of Prieto Diaz, in the Philippines’ Bicol region, was selected as a pilot area for a community-based...
World’s ‘largest’ tropical reforestation project slowed by Covid, Bolsonaro, fires
In 2017, Conservation International launched what was dubbed the “largest tropical forest restoration in the world” and slated for the Brazilian Amazon. Despite a...
Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
The ongoing development of an entirely new capital city from the ground up in Indonesia has alarmed environmental and Indigenous rights activists, who have...
Indonesia legalizes illicit oil palm farms in program slammed as opaque
Indonesia has legalized oil palm plantations one and a half times the size of London that were operating illegally in forest areas.Critics say the...
How will climate change affect Latin America? Scientists respond to IPCC...
Mongabay Latam spoke with scientists who contributed to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report about the effects in Latin America, opportunities...
Guatemala national park nearing ‘collapse’ amid land grabbing, deforestation
Guatemala’s Sierra del Lacandón National Park has lost thousands of hectares of forest over the last two years, raising concerns among government officials and...
Scientists turn captured CO2 into commercially used acetic acid
“Carbon capture is feasible today from a technical point of view, but not yet from an economic point of view.”
If we are to avoid...
Do we need to fireproof solar panels?
There is a limit to how much heat solar panels can handle and fire damage can make them dangerous.
Solar panels tend to be incredibly...
Study shows Javan leopard habitat shrinking, but real picture may be...
Leopards lost more than 1,300 km² (500 mi²) of suitable habitat across the Indonesian island of Java between 2000 and 2020, a new study...
Global Ocean Census aims to find 100,000 marine species in 10...
A new initiative called the Ocean Census aims to expand marine biodiversity knowledge by finding 100,000 new marine species within a decade.It will send...
Q&A with archaeologist Eduardo Neves
Research shows that the human presence in the world’s largest tropical rainforest dates back much further and was much more varied than previously thought.Archeologist...
Meet the ‘forest fishers’ restoring mangroves and livelihoods in Mexico
Residents of the Mexican community of Costa de San Juan have restored more than 350 hectares (865 acres) of mangrove forest in the Alvarado...
