Climate, Energy & Conservation
JANTHO, Indonesia — Illegal gold miners in Indonesia’s Aceh province have breached a crucial reintroduction forest for critically endangered Sumatran orangutans rescued from the illegal wildlife trade...
Potential Tropical Cyclone Five has been designated in the Gulf on Monday morning, threatening heavy rain and flash flooding across parts of Louisiana and Texas, raising flash flood concerns.
Five days after a calamitous flood washed through Rasuwa, Nepal, the death toll continues to climb. Authorities said Monday that 903 people have been confirmed dead, while another 4,247 are missing, a...
Few of these scary claims are supported by the facts: in reality, the outlook is quite favorable for our region if a "Super El Niño" continues to develop.The post“Super” El Nino Misinformationappeared...
Guest post by David Wojick, originally posted by CFACT. A database of Green Climate Fund (GCF) “projects” reveals that almost none are actual projects. Most are just specialized junior funds. Each ha...
A (free) CliffsNotes rundown of the books and articles I’ve been reading.
Thailand’s banteng (Bos javanicus) population has declined dramatically across much of its range. But inside Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, this rare wild cattle species is making a comeback. Ant...
As summer slowly comes to an end amid the crazy weather of hurricane season, forecasters are shifting their attention to the dark-horse severe threat of El Niño this fall and its potential impacts.
“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie CurieThe postWeekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #704appeared f...
If you sit in an Australian park or garden for long enough, chances are you might catch a flash of brilliant feathers out of the corner of your eye: the superb fairywren. With its bright blue and soft...
Health officials in North Carolina are warning residents who had contact with baby goats at a mobile petting zoo to contact their local health department after three of the animals tested positive for...
The administration should use appropriate diplomatic and legal channels to defend American judgments and make the resilience of U.S. energy infrastructure part of the transatlantic security conversati...
In 2015, the remote coastal fjords of southern Patagonia turned into a whale graveyard. That June, scientists found 337 dead and decomposing sei whales, a species of baleen whale, on the beaches betwe...
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the forests around Pemaluan in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo...
CAPE TOWN — When scientist Loyiso Dunga began mapping the Great African Seaforest in 2016, he decided to go snorkeling. The South African section of the kelp forest stretches around 800 miles or 1,300...
Researchers have a population of an extremely rare plant species, last recorded in Sri Lanka in 1855, growing in a lowland forest fragment along the Sitawaka Ganga River. Documenting the finding in ...
Tragedy has unfolded in Oklahoma after a federal wildlife officer died while helping combat the flames of the Railroad South Fire.
Video of Dr David Deming's statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works on December 6, 2006. Dr Deming reveals that in 1995 a leading scientist emailed him saying "We have to g...
At a September 2021 public hearing in Manaus, Philip Fearnside read from a prepared statement laying out his case against repaving BR-319, the highway between Manaus and Porto Velho, two cities in the...
Bad news for concertgoers planning on attending the Bonnaroo Music Festival next year, as recent severe storm impacts have forced the owners of the land to cancel events for 2027 to recover.