- As the world gathers this week in Addis Ababa for the second stocktake of the U.N. Food Systems Summit (UNFSS+4), the urgency of transforming food systems into more resilient, sustainable and inclusive ones has…
Category: 9. Environment
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Indigenous knowledge & agroecology must be at the center of food system transformation (commentary)
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Empathy and spiritual ecology are a conservation solution and ‘radical cure’
The Nature Of is a new podcast series from the nonprofit nature and culture magazine Atmos that speaks with prominent figures in conservation and culture about how humans relate to the natural world, and how they might heal and strengthen that…
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Hamid Moradi, died on July 25th after battling a forest fire in Iranian Kurdistan, aged 36
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
When flames overtook the hillsides above the…
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Killing barred owls to save spotted owls
Northern spotted owl numbers have continued to decline in North America’s Pacific Northwest, partly due to competition from barred owls considered invasive in the region. The…
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Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed revoking a scientific finding that’s long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse…
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As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival
- Fishing communities along the Philippines’ Verde Island Passage, a haven for marine biodiversity, say the development of a natural gas import hub in the area is leading to environmental degradation.
- Fishers say…
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That ‘fish’ on the menu? In Brazil’s schools and prisons, it’s often shark
- Brazil, the world’s top importer of shark meat, is feeding much of it to preschoolers, hospital patients, military staff, public workers and more via government procurements, Mongabay has found.
- This influx of shark meat into public…
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Yellowstone’s Aspen Forests Are Already Responding to The Return of Wolves : ScienceAlert
Aspen forest is reclaiming the skyline of Yellowstone National Park after decades of controversy over efforts to return wolves to the ecosystem.
The successful growth of a new Aspen overstory for the first time in 80 years validates the…
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Scientists & communities rush to save rare, diverse Brazilian grassland ecosystem
- Rupestrian grasslands form an ecosystem of extremes: covering a mere 0.8% of Brazil’s territory, they are home to 15% of the nation’s flora. Of the 5,700 plant species catalogued, 40% can only be found there,…
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Sri Lanka Supreme Court orders $1 bn payment in X Press Pearl marine disaster
- Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ordered $1 billion in compensation from the owners and local agents of the MV X-Press Pearl, which sank off Colombo in 2021, causing the worst maritime disaster in the island’s…
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