Category: 9. Environment

As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the year – those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the earliest days of Antarctic…

Imagine that a hurricane has destroyed your home.

The roof is gone. The floors are flooded. Your family’s belongings are ruined.

When this happens, you can apply for federal disaster aid, hoping for a lifeline. For many low-income…

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

When Ridzki Sigit first joined Mongabay in…

Sri Lanka’s lesser-known Kumana National Park, on the country’s southeastern coast, has emerged as a leopard stronghold, according to a recent study, contributor Malaka Rodrigo

A commission appointed by the late Pope Francis has released a new report highlighting the urgent need to address global debt, which has hindered sustainable development and climate…

Ghana has announced plans to expand the area in which small-scale fishers can operate, in response to persistent violations by industrial trawlers encroaching into this zone.

The…

This study provides a glance at the potential of disentangling complex relationships between climate change-induced abiotic trends and events with the associated shallow-water community when data of sufficient temporal resolution are available….

The CFFWIS structure

The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System is a widely used tool for assessing forest fire danger. First, it evaluates the moisture content of three fuel layers based on daily (noon) weather conditions⁴. Each fuel…