Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
In a move hailed as a long-overdue conservation…
Category: 9. Environment
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Study finds two-thirds of India’s snow leopards are in Ladakh region
Snow leopards are often called “ghosts of the mountains,” and for good reason: They’re notoriously difficult to spot. But researchers behind a recent study used a…
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Ultrasonographic evaluation of testicular and Pampiniform plexus characteristics in young bulls under different microclimatic conditions in a tropical environment
Ethics
All experimental procedures were approved by the Animal Use Ethics Committee of Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste (São Carlos, SP, Brazil; Protocol CEUA PRT02/2023). The experiment was conducted in compliance with Brazilian laws and reported…
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Predictiveness and drivers of highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in Europe
Hippocrates, et al. Hippocrates on Airs, Waters and Places (Wyman & Sons, 1881).
Li, J., Lai, S., Gao, G. F. & Shi, W. The emergence, genomic diversity and global spread of SARS-CoV-2. Nature…
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Context-aware implicit neural representations to compress Earth systems model data
The main goal of the proposed CA-INR framework is to overfit the model to the data, enabling accurate reconstruction and compression of E3SM fields. The method leverages contextual physical information to better capture underlying spatial…
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Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires
- A new and alarming pattern of destruction is emerging in the rainforest, challenging Brazilian authorities ahead of COP30.
- After plunging in 2023 and 2024, deforestation in the Amazon surged 92% in May and is up 27%…
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Van Beeman and Kaplin discuss conservation in Africa
- Dutch investigative journalist Olivier van Beemen is the author of an award-winning book about the NGO African Parks and its controversial management of national parks across sub-Saharan Africa.
- Some of the 23 parks…
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Deforestation in the Philippines may have caused infertile hybrids of endemic frogs, study finds
- The truncate-toed chorus frog is a widely distributed species in the Philippines archipelago, with four distinct subspecies. One of them, the Leyte chorus frog, first described around 80 years ago, is considered a…
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In California, an invasive mustard is destabilizing desert plant communities
- In desert ecosystems, plant species coexist by growing and flowering at different times, cued by rainfall and other triggers. This diversity strengthens community stability.
- The invasive Sahara mustard arrived in…
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Global tracking study reveals marine megafauna hotspots lie largely unprotected
- A global study tracking nearly 13,000 marine animals representing 111 species reveals they spend 80% of their time in just 63% of their range, yet only about 5% of these high-use ocean areas are currently…
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