news.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Globalby Rhett Butler2h ago
- Daniel Janzen’s scientific work helped reshape ecologists’ understanding of tropical forests, especially the relationships among plants, insects, pathogens, predators, and seeds.
Mongabay Globalby Autumn Spanne2h ago
- The krill fishery in the Southern Ocean has closed more than three months early after reaching its annual catch limit of 620,000 metric tons — a precautionary quota established to prevent...
Mongabay Globalby Andy Lehren2h ago
- Cape Town, South Africa, has recorded 135 incidents of aggressive seal behavior toward humans since September 2021, including injuries that led to hospitalizations.
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu4h ago
- Researchers investigating Colombia’s remote region of Guainía have identified nearly 120 dragonfly and damselfly species, uncovering a biodiversity hotspot for these insects.
Mongabay Globalby Abu Siddique5h ago
- Currently, Bangladesh has 35 certified green buildings and sustainable offices in various non-manufacturing sectors, and the concept is gaining more ground.
Mongabay Globalby Hans Nicholas Jong5h ago
- The Indonesian government has integrated data from its Ministry of Culture, the Ancestral Domain Registration Agency and AMAN, the country’s largest Indigenous peoples’ alliance, to build a new...
Mongabay Globalby Dilrukshi Handunnetti6h ago
- Sri Lanka’s government has greenlit the country’s long-delayed animal welfare bill, which proposes stringent penalties for cruelty to animals and would replace a century-old animal cruelty law.
Mongabay Globalby Alexandre de Santi8h ago
- An exclusive analysis found at least 36 renewable energy companies have pivoted toward building massive server hubs to cash in on excess generation.
Mongabay Globalby Alexandre de Santi8h ago
- The energy firm Serena filed 12 requests to build data centers in a remote town of only 11,000 people already affected by wind farms in Brazil.
Mongabay Globalby Glenn Scherer19h ago
- A potentially historic El Niño is gathering strength and likely to peak between Nov. 2026-Jan. 2027. Latest projections suggest the event could become the strongest ever measured.
Mongabay Globalby Rhett Butler1d ago
The fight to stop five dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers began in one of Chile’s least populous regions, far from Santiago, where national energy policy was set.
Mongabay Globalby Rhett Butler2d ago
In the early 1990s, the logging roads running through Sarawak’s Upper Baram became the site of a bitter confrontation.
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb2d ago
Art and science can work together to raise public awareness and propel conservation efforts needed to safeguard coral reef ecosystems, a group of coral scientists argues in a new research article...
Mongabay Globalby Malavikavyawahare2d ago
- New research mapping out the Angolan Highlands Water Tower (AWHT), a stretch of elevated plateau spanning 380,382 km², finds that a significantly larger portion of the region hosts peatland than...
Mongabay Globalby Morgan Erickson-Davis3d ago
- In Japan, satoyama are rural landscapes with natural attributes that have also been shaped by centuries of human activity.
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman3d ago
- A recent report sheds light on Southeast Asia’s important oak tree diversity and underlines that many of these species are highly threatened.
Mongabay Globalby Autumn Spanne3d ago
- The proposal represents Spain’s latest effort to advance protection of 30% of its waters by 2030.
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup3d ago
- Seabirds are the most threatened group of birds, with more than 30% at risk of extinction. Migratory seabirds are especially vulnerable.
Mongabay Globalby Yenni Kwok3d ago
- This year’s extreme weather has been linked to El Niño, which, according to weather experts, could be one of the strongest ever recorded.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta3d ago
Researchers have described a new-to-science species of horned lizard from the high-elevation, evergreen forests of western Thailand.
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