- As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.
- Petrobras has been conducting surveys since 2013 using seismic airgun blasts that can…
Category: 9. Environment
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Seismic noise from oil companies threatens Amazon River Mouth marine life
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Traditional hunting shifts with access to cheap guns in India’s Nagaland: Study
Among Indigenous Naga tribes in India’s northeastern state of Nagaland, hunting traditions are transforming as cheap homemade guns make targeting commercially valuable large…
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Convolutional neural networks with transfer learning for natural river flow prediction in ungauged basins
Jain, S. K. & Singh, V. P. Water Resources Systems Planning and Management (Elsevier, 2023).
Brocca, L. et al. River flow prediction in data scarce regions: Soil moisture integrated satellite…
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Agencies race to prevent new food crisis as locusts return to northern Africa
- Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa after following ideal breeding conditions in late 2024 and early 2025, raising fears of major locust infestations moving south into the Sahel later…
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Peru’s Indigenous aguaje harvesters turn to sustainability, but challenges remain
Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are working to revive populations of the aguaje palm tree, commercially valued for its fruits, by shifting to more sustainable…
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African Parks earns over $7 million from carbon credit sales in Benin and CAR
African Parks has generated $7.35 million in carbon credit sales from Chinko National Park in the Central African Republic, Helge Mahne, global funding director for African Parks,…
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Tracking the return of critically endangered turtles in India’s Ganga River
A recent conservation initiative is closely monitoring the return of 20 critically endangered red-crowned roofed turtles in India’s Ganga River, where the species was nearly wiped…
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From intern to Mongabay India director in less than 4 years: Sandhya Sekar’s journey
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
Sandhya Sekar never intended to lead a…
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Bangladeshi village grapples with contaminated water flowing in from India
- A transboundary canal carrying wastewater from upstream India has been impacting the agriculture and aquatic resources of a village in downstream Bangladesh for several decades.
- According to data, the parameters of…
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Giant river otter returns to Argentina after almost four decades
A family of giant river otters was released into the Iberá National Park in northeast Argentina on July 1. The endangered species, with no known breeding populations in Argentina…
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