news.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Globalby Alexandre de Santi24 Aug 2026
- 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 Scherer23 Aug 2026
- 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 Butler23 Aug 2026
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 Butler22 Aug 2026
In the early 1990s, the logging roads running through Sarawak’s Upper Baram became the site of a bitter confrontation.
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb21 Aug 2026
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 Malavikavyawahare21 Aug 2026
- 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-Davis21 Aug 2026
- In Japan, satoyama are rural landscapes with natural attributes that have also been shaped by centuries of human activity.
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman21 Aug 2026
- 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 Spanne21 Aug 2026
- The proposal represents Spain’s latest effort to advance protection of 30% of its waters by 2030.
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup21 Aug 2026
- Seabirds are the most threatened group of birds, with more than 30% at risk of extinction. Migratory seabirds are especially vulnerable.
Mongabay Globalby Yenni Kwok21 Aug 2026
- 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 Dasgupta21 Aug 2026
Researchers have described a new-to-science species of horned lizard from the high-elevation, evergreen forests of western Thailand.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta21 Aug 2026
In the humid, coastal forests of Japan’s Ishigaki Island, near Okinawa, a parasitic plant relies on some unusual allies to spread its seeds: land hermit crabs and cockroaches, according to a recent...
Mongabay Globalby Erik Hoffner20 Aug 2026
- Well managed protected areas can reduce the illegal wildlife trade, but the reality is that this crime will persist as long as trafficking networks remain, a new op-ed says.
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu20 Aug 2026
- Mongabay interviewed Francisco Hernández Cayetano, president of the Federation of Ticuna and Yagua Communities of the Lower Amazon, about substance abuse problems affecting Ticuna youth.
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup20 Aug 2026
Authorities in the U.S. state of Florida have cleared a controversial startup of criminal neglect after dozens of wild-caught sloths that it imported from South America for tourism purposes died.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta20 Aug 2026
European coastal waters recorded unprecedented sea surface temperatures in July 2026. A new study has found that human-induced climate change primarily drove the temperature surge, pushing marine...
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu20 Aug 2026
- In the Colombian department of La Guajira, at South America’s northernmost tip, Indigenous Wayuu fishers from the community of Punta Gallinas are working with marine biologists to conserve and...
Mongabay Globalby Abhaya Raj Joshi20 Aug 2026
- Nepal’s government is allowing hydropower development inside protected areas, despite a January 2025 Supreme Court ruling that invalidates the legal provision for this activity.
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao20 Aug 2026
Sloth bears play a critical role in structuring India’s dry deciduous forests by dispersing viable seeds and influencing plant regeneration, reports contributor Sneha Mahale for Mongabay India.
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