- Trained as an ecologist, Sandhya Sekar transitioned into journalism to explore the full breadth of environmental science, eventually becoming the founding program director of Mongabay-India.
- Since the bureau’s…
Category: 9. Environment
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How Mongabay-India took root: Interview with Sandhya Sekar
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Decadal hydroclimatic changes in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland
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Evans, T. L., Costa, M., Tomas, W. M. &…
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Integrated study for the impacts of air pollution and climate conditions on road traffic accidents
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Table 1 presents the descriptive statistics of road traffic accidents (RTA) and APCC indices from January 1, 2022, to November 30, 2023. During this period, approximately 80 days of air pollution data are missing. In the…
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Heavy rainfall in Vietnam & China causes flash floods, landslides
Several people have died following landslides in northern Vietnam caused by heavy rainfall and flash floods over the weekend, media reported.
A local government official was quoted…
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Study finds fast traffic noise is infuriating Galápagos warblers
- A noisier world makes it challenging for birds, which primarily rely on sound to communicate, and many are forced to change their behavior to cope with their clamorous environment.
- A recent study looked at how…
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Deforestation in REDD-protected Congo rainforests is ‘beyond words’
The Republic of Congo had been protecting about half of its dense rainforests via the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) framework. In exchange, the country is supposed to receive payments from the World Bank….
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As Indonesia phases out coal, what happens to people & environments left behind?
- An analysis by the Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL) finds that the country’s energy transition plans do not address the remaining impacts of coal plants such as pollution, degraded ecosystems and…
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Brazil rewilds urban forest with vaccinated brown howler monkeys
Following a deadly yellow fever outbreak in 2016, brown howler monkeys are slowly making a recovery through targeted vaccination and reintroduction efforts in one of the world’s…
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An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation (commentary)
- The idea of integrating Indigenous and Western knowledge systems is often well-intentioned, but ultimately misguided, write the authors of a new commentary who were part of a project for WCS-Canada and the…
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Ancient pollen reveals stories about Earth’s history, from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs to the Mayan collapse
If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks of male reproductive material that many of us notice only when we get watery eyes and runny noses.
However, pollen…
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