news.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Globalby Autumn Spanne6d ago
- A new field study found that two treatments of beneficial bacteria each protected reef corals from bleaching during a heat wave in the Red Sea.
Mongabay Globalby Glenn Scherer6d ago
- As Earth warms, greenhouse gases released by thawing permafrost, wetlands, wildfires, and freshwaters could cause 0.2°-0.4°C (0.4°-0.7°F) of additional warming by 2100, a new study estimates.
Mongabay Globalby Malavikavyawahare6d ago
- Ali Thani and Lorna Slade shared frustration with top-down conservation and a belief that coastal communities could manage their own resources led them to come together to create the Mwambao...
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta6d ago
The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have signed a 10-year agreement to co-manage a portion of Queen Elizabeth National Park, famous for its tree-climbing...
Mongabay Globalby Yenni Kwok6d ago
- Hong Kong’s heat stress warning system has been widely criticized as ineffective, failing to raise alerts even when temperatures hit a record high.
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup6d ago
- Sulawesi’s critically endangered maleo birds are increasingly targeted by wildlife traffickers, according to a new study that documented seizures of smuggled birds Some were carried by families...
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor6d ago
- Data from remote sensing platforms indicates Indonesia is likely experiencing its worst wildfires crisis in years as a strong El Niño deepens the country’s main dry season over Sumatra and Borneo...
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao6d ago
In the Indian Western Himalayas, women are the primary first responders to escalating forest fires.
Mongabay Globalby Morgan Erickson-Davis6d ago
- Mangrove forests can help protect tropical coastal areas from rising sea levels and storm surges.
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao6d ago
Isolated and contacted Indigenous tribes in India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands face threats from illegal fishing, mega-development projects and misinformed government welfare policies that...
Mongabay Globalby Xavier Bartaburu7d ago
- In restinga shrub areas of the Atlantic Forest on the coast of Paraná state, researchers have carried out the first yellow fever vaccinations of black-faced lion tamarins.
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor7d ago
SCHIPKAU, Germany (AP) — A wind turbine described by its developer as the world’s tallest now rises 365 meters (1,197 feet) above the sparsely populated landscape of eastern Germany, surpassing the...
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu7d ago
A new initiative between the U.S. and Argentina is meant to bolster investment opportunities and strengthen supply chains for critical minerals that could be used in the clean energy transition...
Mongabay Globalby Shanna Hanbury7d ago
Renewable energy companies are driving most of Brazil’s plans for new data centers, according to a recent joint analysis by The Intercept Brasil and Mongabay.
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu7d ago
- Gabon passed a decree this year requiring benefit sharing for commercial uses of the medicinal plant iboga, its derivatives, and associated traditional knowledge, but the mechanisms for...
Mongabay Globalby Abhishyantkidangoor7d ago
- Scientists have found that dolphins have separate areas in the ocean where they hunt and socialize.
Mongabay Globalby Rhett Butler7d ago
- On October 1, 2025, Jane Goodall died at the age of 91. - Goodall, who began her career in 1960 with little formal training, transformed science’s understanding of chimpanzees and in the process...
Mongabay Globalby Malavikavyawahare7d ago
- Dickson Kaelo grew up herding livestock, while living alongside wildlife. He remembers what it meant when lions killed cattle, elephants destroyed crops or a hyena got into a boma and killed...
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor7d ago
- Documents obtained by Mongabay show Vantara, the controversial private zoo in India run by billionaire Anant Ambani, was in talks with Brazilian authorities to form a “strategic conservation...
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta7d ago
For much of the 20th century, Cuba’s spiders and scorpions received limited attention beyond specialist circles.
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