Despite the Caribbean Sea witnessing some of the worst episodes of mass coral bleaching over the last year, a reef in Honduras’ Tela Bay, nicknamed Cocalito, has withstood pressures from climate change and pollution, surprising and impressing…
Category: 9. Environment
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The Caribbean’s hardiest corals (cartoon)
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First conference of forest basin leaders results in call for direct financing
- Participants at the world’s first global congress of Indigenous and local communities from forest basins seek to increase direct financing to community forest conservation.
- Community-led organizations are scaling…
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UN calls out Indonesia’s Merauke food estate for displacing Indigenous communities
- U.N. special rapporteurs have raised concerns that Indonesia’s food estate project in Merauke district is displacing Indigenous communities, clearing forests without consent, and using military forces to suppress…
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Federal energy office illustrates the perils of fluctuating budgets and priorities
When new presidential administrations enter the White House, federal agencies often find their funding and priorities shifting, sometimes dramatically.
I’m a scholar who studies how policy and market shifts affect regional economies,…
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Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources
- Intensive harvesting of the mollusk known as “loco” and salmon farming are damaging the seabed and reducing the biodiversity of the Guaitecas Archipelago, in northern Chilean Patagonia.
- To restore it, divers are…
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An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection
- Sri Lanka has declared the Nilgala wilderness, a unique landscape harboring the island’s largest savanna ecosystem interwoven with a mosaic of unique habitats, as a national forest reserve.
- Despite being home to…
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Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries.
In a packed event held in Palo Alto,…
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How fungi are powering eco-friendly solutions
Often hidden from view, fungi are critical part of our ecosystems. Some can be eaten as mushrooms; others help trees and forests thrive. But that’s not all: they’re also helping…
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Trump administration plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging on national forest lands. Agriculture Secretary Brooke…
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Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli, sage of the forest, died on June 18th, aged 93
In the forests of Vidarbha, where he spent most of his adult life, Maruti Chitampalli did not walk so much as listen. While others mapped territory, he absorbed language—of…
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