ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia has launched a national campaign to plant 700 million trees in one day. The ambitious goal, announced Thursday, is part of a conservation…
Category: 9. Environment
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Report reveals severe impact of last year’s drought on Amazonian communities
- A new U.N. report documents some of the most widespread and damaging impacts of the 2023-24 drought in the Amazon basin, which affected hundreds of thousands of Amazonian people.
- The main impacts were impeded…
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Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization
The Trump administration’s cuts to the National Park Service’s budget and staffing have raised concerns among park advocates and the public that the administration is aiming to further privatize the national parks.
The nation has a long…
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A Midwest ‘megaflash’ is the longest lightning on record
A massive bolt of lightning that lit up the sky from Dallas to Kansas City, Mo., in October 2017 is officially the longest single flash ever recorded.
A reanalysis of satellite data collected during the storm revealed that this…
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Illegal pet trade in Nepal now shifting online, research suggests
- The preliminary findings of a recent study suggest a shift in Nepal’s illegal exotic pet trade, moving from physical markets to digital platforms due to widespread smartphone penetration, social media usage, and…
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First record of Cape clawless otter preying on African penguins: Study
The critically endangered African penguin has several predators to fear, including gulls, seals and sharks at sea, and leopards, caracals, domestic dogs and mongoose on land. A
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John Robbins, heir to an ice cream empire who chose a life of principle, dies at 77
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
In the United States, there are few things more…
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Malaysia’s turtle egg buyback scheme saved thousands — but is it sustainable?
- A recent study assessed the effectiveness of Malaysia’s decades-old sea turtle egg buyback scheme, which aims to prevent eggs from entering the illegal wildlife trade by purchasing them from licensed collectors…
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Arboreal camera traps reveal wildlife feasting on Borneo’s fruiting fig trees
Camera traps installed high in the rainforest canopy in Malaysian Borneo have filmed a bounty of threatened primates, hornbills and a host of tree-dwelling animals feasting on…
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Mixed provenance of organic carbon in Northeast Atlantic temperate intertidal seagrass sediments
The findings demonstrate that both autochthonous and allochthonous organic carbon were present in the temperate intertidal Z. marina and Z. noltii seagrass sediments at our study sites. Seagrass-derived organic carbon is not the dominant source…
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