Environment

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How wild cattle recovery is transforming local livelihoods near key Thai reserve

HUAI KHA KHAENG, Thailand — “Five years ago, we’d never have been able to see this,” says Boonlert Tianchang, raising a pair of binoculars to his beaming eyes. “To see just one banteng, we would have ...

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Linda Dakin-Grimm and Geo Chen join Mongabay’s board as it expands global coverage

Mongabay is pleased to announce that Linda Dakin-Grimm and Geo Chen have joined its board of directors, strengthening its capacity to advance its mission of producing high-impact environmental journal...

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Australia’s flying foxes offer valuable services & deserve better reputation: Study

A new study in Scientific Reports provides the first economic valuation of the ecosystem services provided by flying foxes in Australia, focusing on their significant contribution to the timber indust...

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Who gives up land for the world’s climate fixes?

Planting trees has become one of the most widely promoted responses to climate change. As forests grow, they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while offering habitat for animals, plants and ot...

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Ethiopian women plant trees, restoring lands & livelihoods

In the southern Ethiopian region of Sidama, unsustainable farming practices and tree cutting for fuel are causing land degradation. In response, members of the Integrated Women’s Development Organizat...

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Thai court rules gold mine liable, but villagers face uncertain justice

BAN KHAO MO, Thailand — On March 24, 2026, residents of this small community achieved a landmark legal victory. Ten years into a class action suit against the Chatree gold mine, the Bangkok Civil Cour...

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Marina Silva steps down as Brazil’s environment minister to run for Congress

SAO PAULO (AP) — Marina Silva is stepping down as Brazil’s environment minister so that she can run for Congress in national elections. Under Brazilian law, ministers must leave office six months befo...

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American Samoa said ‘no’ to deep sea mining, Washington heard ‘faster’ (commentary)

At 7:45 a.m. one recent January day in American Samoa, a delegation from Greenpeace and Pacific Island partners sat in a small radio studio explaining why we had traveled thousands of miles across the...

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A ‘big book’ documenting Cameroon’s sharks & rays fills critical conservation gap

BUEA, Cameroon — To his fishing peers, Ojah Alfred, 45, is a fisher like they are. But to Cameroon’s scientific community, he is also a scientist — a citizen scientist. For eight years, Alfred, alongs...

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Working together, Indigenous peoples & researchers describe new Amazonian palm

In 2025, botanists Rodrigo Cámara-Leret and Juan Carlos Copete embarked on a two-hour boat ride down the Vaupés River in the Colombian Amazon, followed by a two-hour hike to the village of Wacará, whe...

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More Than 110 New Species Discovered In Deep Waters Off Australia

Scientists have identified more than 110 new species found in deep water beyond the edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.Read more on E360 →

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‘Sharing is off the table’ as drought reshapes the lives of Ethiopia’s pastoralists

JIJIGA, Ethiopia — The land here used to speak. At dawn in Kebribeyah district, Somali Regional State, eastern Ethiopia, the plains stretch wide beneath a pale sky, with dusty shades of brown and yell...

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State fishing village plan in Indonesian Papua sparks Indigenous opposition

Indigenous leaders in Indonesia’s South Papua province have rejected a government plan to build a state-backed fishing settlement on their ancestral land, highlighting growing tensions between nationa...

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Oil surge sharpens calls for Indonesia to shift away from fossil fuels

JAKARTA — As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran drives oil prices above $100 a barrel and disrupts global supply routes, Indonesia is once again confronting the costs of its dependence on fossil fuels — with...

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Meaningful conservation demands truth, not just facts, says political ecologist

The people and policies that control how humans treat the natural world are increasingly dominated by a small class of elite political entities and corporations, argues our guest, political ecologist ...

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What ‘paper parks’ reveal about the limits of conservation policy (commentary)

Conservation has no shortage of ambitious policy. Marine protected areas now cover roughly 8% of the world’s oceans. Protected lands account for nearly a fifth of the planet’s terrestrial surface. Com...

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The underwater meadows that help keep beaches from disappearing

Seagrass meadows, which rarely draw the attention given to coral reefs or mangrove forests, perform a steady but important task: they help hold coasts in place. The plants anchor themselves in sedimen...

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An invasive guava is muscling out Madagascar’s forests — and lemurs are helping

Madagascar is renowned for its lemurs, which are threatened due to hunting and deforestation. Restoring native forests to ensure their survival is critical, but once damaged, forests in Madagascar are...

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Brazil is uniquely positioned to weather rising world oil prices

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil is finding protection in a decades-old buffer against shocks that is both cheap and environmentally friendly as global oil markets tremble amid the escalating conflict in the M...

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Peru-Brazil Bioceanic Railway brings too much risk to the Amazon, experts warn

The idea of a railway line stretching across the width of South America — from Peru on the Pacific coast to Brazil on the Atlantic — has gained steam since the inauguration of the megaport of Chancay ...

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