Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
While most people are familiar with monkeys,…
Category: 9. Environment
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The Metals Company applied to the U.S. for a deep-sea mining license
- The Metals Company (TMC) has submitted its first application to commercially exploit seabed minerals in international waters, along with applications for two exploration licenses, under the U.S. regulatory…
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Bangladesh starts a sustainable luxury fashion journey with lotus “silk”
- Recently, Bangladesh successfully developed lotus silk — a biodegradable luxury fabric — using lotus stems, merging ancient tradition with modern sustainability science.
- Unlike conventional textiles, lotus silk…
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PHOTO ESSAY Wind-blown sand scouring life off a Southern African landscape
- Botany professor emeritus Timm Hoffman and his colleagues are seeing eddies of dune sand piling up around quiver trees at study sites in northwestern South Africa.
- Hoffman has been studying the iconic trees for 20…
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Indris like to “move it”
Madagascar’s Indri indri lemurs can carry a tune. Through collecting songs and calls produced by 20 indri groups in Madagascar’s rainforests over the span of 15 years, scientists have found that indri songs exhibit rhythmic patterns that…
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Reflections on 20 years of Mongabay News (commentary)
- Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler reflects on 20 years since the start of Mongabay News.
- During those early days of Mongabay, Rhett would toil to produce several hundred articles a year by himself; this year,…
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Military-backed plantation project in Indonesian Papua triggers rights concerns
- Indonesia’s human rights commission has found serious rights and environmental violations in a government-backed plantation project in Papua, including land grabbing, lack of Indigenous consent, and…
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The Rare Vibration Phenomenon That May Explain Europe’s Huge Blackout : ScienceAlert
The lights are mostly back on in Spain, Portugal and southern France after a widespread blackout on Monday.
The blackout caused chaos for tens of millions of people. It shut down traffic lights and ATMs, halted public transport, cut phone…
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Increasing frequency and spatial extent of cattle heat stress conditions in the Southern plains of the USA
Spatial and temporal patterns based on THI
Based on the THI thresholds, the mean number of days of “extreme” heat stress (THI > 94) was negligible, with ca. 95% of the stations in Oklahoma having less than 1 day per year. Therefore, the…
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A deep learning based framework for enhanced reference evapotranspiration estimation: evaluating accuracy and forecasting strategies
Reference evapotranspiration (ETo)
Evapotranspiration is a continuous water evaporation process from the vegetated soil surface and the leaf surface. Penman–Monteith is an empirical method to estimate ETo1. PyEto3 framework is used herein to…
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