Japan’s city of Aomori to try making electricity with snow
City officials, a local startup and University of Electro-Communications experts will run a winter pilot project to test their snow theory.
The Japanese city of...
Indigenous Knowledge guides the conservation of culturally important plants
The Karuk Tribe in northern California has traditionally managed plants for food, fiber, and medicine, but decades of fire suppression and climate change...
A Sri Lankan dragonfly flits back to life
Sri Lankan researchers have rediscovered an endemic dragonfly species that was last seen in 1970 and thought to be extinct.Macromia flinti was described more...
Indigenous communities in Peru ‘living in fear’ due to deforestation, drug...
Between 2021 and 2021 the territory of the Indigenous Kakataibo community of Puerto Nuevo lost 15% of its tree cover.Satellite data suggest forest loss...
Rare, critically endangered gecko making dramatic recovery in Caribbean
The Union Island gecko (Gonatodes daudini), known for its jewel-like markings, has seen its population grow from around 10,000 in 2018 to around 18,000...
Newcomer farmers in Brazil embrace bees, agroforestry and find success
New female farmers that are part of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) are embracing beekeeping and agroforestry on land that was previously unproductive and...
Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat
Rusnata was one of more than 150 Indonesian deckhands repatriated from the various vessels operated by China’s Dalian Ocean Fishing in 2020.Previous reporting by...
Some tree-dwelling primates may adapt more easily to life on the...
As deforestation and climate change alter rainforest habitats, monkeys and lemurs that normally live in trees are risking encounters with predators to spend time...
Despite 11% drop in 2022, Amazon deforestation rate has soared under...
An area equivalent to the size of Qatar was cleared in the Brazilian Amazon between Aug. 1, 2021, and July 31, 2022, according to...
Climate action in Middle East is doomed to fail without reform...
Poor governance, corruption and conflict throughout MENA threaten to curb the impact of new climate funds.
The United Nations COP27 conference has now drawn to...
To replace Western food imports, Cameroon gives community lands to ‘no-name’...
The Cameroonian government has allocated 95,000 hectares of land – three times the size of Cameroon’s capital – to the company Tawfiq Agro Industry,...
How reporters uncovered a massive illegal shark finning operation
Podcast host Mike G. speaks with Mongabay reporters who conducted recent investigations revealing a major and illegal shark finning operation by one of China’s...
