Falling Amazon river flows trigger reality check at Belo Monte power plant
Studies warn that climate change could slash hydropower generation across the Amazon by up to 40%, with controversial Belo Monte…
Counting bats in the dark
How do you count and keep track of bats? Advances in videography, including thermal cameras, have made it easier to…
Paul Brainerd turned computers into printing presses and fortune into conservation
Paul Brainerd helped invent desktop publishing as a co-founder of Aldus and the force behind PageMaker, then redirected his wealth…
How the ‘wrong story’ ends up harming nature, and how we can change it
Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta (Apalech clan (Wik) Lostmob Nungar) joins the Mongabay Newscast to detail the Aboriginal perspectives behind his…
How Amazon communities built their own power systems
Near Brazil’s Belo Monte dam, one of the world’s largest hydropower projects, the promise of abundant electricity has proved uneven.…
Malaysia renews Lynas Rare Earths’ license for 10 years, orders end to radioactive waste by 2031
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government renewed Australian miner Lynas Rare Earths’ operating license for 10 years but will…
Concern among Indigenous leaders, relief for a few, as Amazon Soy Moratorium falters
Mongabay spoke with various stakeholders across Brazil’s political spectrum on what the possible unraveling of the Amazon Soy Moratorium, a…
New mapping approach predicts habitat availability for species conservation
A new habitat mapping framework combines various data sets to visualize where species live, and predict potential habitats for the…
Local communities are conservation’s most undervalued asset (commentary)
Conservationists will gather this week for the 5th Business of Conservation Congress in Nairobi, and one talking point there will…
World’s smallest possum may live beyond its known range in Australia
New evidence of the world’s smallest possum has emerged hundreds of kilometers from where it’s known to occur in southern…
UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries | Climate crisis
UK programmes to protect nature and the climate in developing countries are suffering swingeing budget cuts despite ministers’ promises, the…
Australian wildlife in ‘harm’s way’, with volunteers left to ‘pick up the pieces’ amid climate crisis, fires and floods | Australia news
Labor is being pushed to introduce tough new national rules for protecting threatened species exposed to disasters including bushfires and…
‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out? | Taxonomy
Once Art Borkent starts speaking about biting midges, he rarely pauses for breath. Holding up a picture of a gnat…
‘Who’d guess they’re the same species?’ What Italy’s wall lizards reveal about genetic diversity and why it matters | Biodiversity
Twelve miles from the heart of Rome, Dr Javier Ábalos pauses his walk, lifts his sunglasses and points. To his…
Lynx could return to Scotland – but can rewilders win over wary Highlanders? | Scotland
Could lynx, the elusive wild cat driven to extinction in Britain more than 1,000 years ago, become the new Loch…
‘Stark warning’: pesticide harm to wildlife rising globally, study finds | Pesticides
Ecological harm from pesticides is growing globally, a study has found, with bugs, fish, pollinators and land-based plants among six…
Why the Chagos Islands’ ecology will not be wrecked by return to Mauritius | Chagos Islands
There has long been a lobby against returning the Chagos Islands to Mauritius based on tenuous environmental arguments, and Clive…