Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine
Community members in Ecuador’s Intag Valley have won a court case to stop the Llurimagua copper mining project, with the court ordering the revocation...
Monarch butterflies become a powerful symbol for justice at the U.S./Mexico...
Monarch butterflies have become a strong symbol for advocates of biological diversity and human rights at the U.S./Mexico border.Though its population appears to be...
Indigenous Pataxó demand land demarcation amid rising violence and murders
The Pataxó Indigenous people in southern Brazil are experiencing a renewed wave of violence and orders to leave their communities after they began reoccupying...
What’s black and white and spins? Wind turbines that don’t kill...
A new study suggests a way to stop seabirds from colliding with wind turbines: painting a black-and-white pattern on all three blades and the...
Newly described leafless orchid in Sri Lanka named after a precious...
A new leafless ground orchid found in a lowland wet zone forest in Sri Lanka has been named after a precious yellow sapphire as...
Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report
A new report published in Nature Climate Change suggests that trophic rewilding, or restoring and protecting the functional roles of animals in ecosystems,...
Reconnecting ‘island habitat’ with wild corridors in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
This three-part Mongabay mini-series examines grassroots forest restoration projects carried out within isolated island ecosystems — whether those islands are surrounded by ocean as...
Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face...
Billions of cubic meters of Mekong River water are now harnessed behind dams in the interests of power generation, severely affecting crucial physical and...
Do tiger-dense habitats also help save carbon stock? It’s complicated
A new study centered on Nepal’s Chitwan National Park attempts to identify whether there’s a relationship between successful tiger conservation and habitats with high...
Newly published carbon market standards aim to increase integrity, confidence
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), an independent governance body, released a set of core carbon principles (CCPs) intended to provide...
The farmer guardian of birds in Bangladesh
Jashodhon Pramanik, a farmer from Natore, Bangladesh, has initiated a bird conservation movement.His 23 years of activism led to the banning of air guns,...
Will clean-energy minerals provoke a shift in how mining is done...
Meeting the Paris climate goals to curb global warming could quadruple demand for metals like lithium, cobalt and nickel by 2040, according to the...
