Category: 9. Environment

The Walia ibex, an iconic wild goat species found only on the steep, ragged cliffs of the Simien Mountains in northern Ethiopia, has sharply declined in number over the past decade,…

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.

Among those who cared about freshwater fish —…

Illegal invasions in the Karipuna Indigenous Territory in the northwest of the Brazilian Amazon have started to advance again, Karipuna leaders told Mongabay following an alert by…

The focus of this study was to explore machine learning and statistical learning techniques to identify the key driver (greenhouse gas) of climate change relating to food security. The predictive performance of the seven machine learning models…

Study location

Physiography

Nigeria’s southeastern region comprises Imo State, which has an area of approximately 5,100 square kilometers. Imo state (Fig. 1) is situated between the longitudes of 6⁰40′0’’E and 7⁰30′0’’E and the…

Data assimilation

Sequential ensemble-based Data Assimilation

Data Assimilation (DA) aims to update model states to push them towards the observations, all by accounting for the uncertainty of both the models and the observations. While…

Observed short lifetimes of landfalling TCs in China

Since the beginning of the global satellite observation era in the 1980 s, the longest recorded duration of a landfalling TC in China was observed in 1986, when Typhoon Wayne (8614) remained…