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Indonesia’s orangutan trafficking cases reveal need for a change in approach (commentary)

For months, four infant orangutans lived in limbo in Thailand — not as pets, but as evidence. Confiscated in two separate trafficking cases, they were cared for at the Khao Pratubchang Wildlife Rescue...

Yale Environment 360 7/10 ?

Long Overlooked as Crucial to Life, Fungi Start to Get Their Due

Fungi create soil, sequester vast amounts of carbon, and contribute $55 trillion to the global economy, but knowledge about them is scarce. Now, mycologists are pushing to get the international scient...

Carbon Brief 7/10 ?

Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling

The Iran war has spurred a range of commentators to renew calls for the UK...The postAnalysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drillingappeared first onCarbon Brief.

Mongabay 7/10 ?

The dark side of smiling sloths

The apparent friendliness of “smiling” sloths have made them tourist darlings, but have also put a target on their backs. In their home range of South and Central America, tourism companies encourage ...

Carbon Brief 7/10 ?

CCC: Net-zero will protect UK from fossil-fuel price shocks

The “cost” of cutting UK emissions to net-zero is less than the cost of a...The postCCC: Net-zero will protect UK from fossil-fuel price shocksappeared first onCarbon Brief.

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Bangladesh sees rise in ray, shark fishing as traditional seafood species dwindle

Though seafood is a prevalent protein source in Bangladesh, some fishes, like stingrays and sharks, never appealed to most of the population here, barring a few coastal Indigenous groups. However, the...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

‘We do not have time’: Interview with MEP Delara Burkhardt on the EUDR’s second delay

In 2023, when the European Parliament passed a law meant to keep products linked to deforestation out of the EU single market, environmentalists were riding high. The landmark piece of legislation, ca...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Rights violations prompt world’s largest sovereign wealth fund to divest from Bolloré

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has decided to divest from French conglomerate Bolloré, the target of long-running allegations of human rights violations, sexual violence and labor rights ab...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Growing number of Indigenous Twa forced out of DRC’s forests and into towns

NORTH KIVU, Democratic Republic of Congo — Over the last decade, towns in the north of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have seen the increasing migration of Indigenous Batw...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Belugas facing euthanasia at shuttered Canada theme park may find new homes in US

For about three decades, beluga whales and bottlenose dolphins greeted more than a million annual visitors to Marineland of Canada. In the sprawling 162-hectare (400-acre) theme park, located a stone’...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers

Plans are afoot to launch large mega-constellations of AI data centers into Earth orbit. That ambition, pursued by multiple space industry leaders, coincides with a warning from scientists of potentia...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Scientists use rapid 3D scanning to create a digital library of 800 ant species

Scientists have designed a new technique using robotics to rapidly generate high-resolution, three-dimensional images of ants. Antscan is the world’s first digitized library of nearly 800 ant species ...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Brazil Supreme Court opens path to mining in Indigenous land for first time

On Feb. 3, at the request of an association of the Indigenous Cinta Larga people in the Amazon, the Brazilian Supreme Court authorized the possibility of mining exploration and exploitation inside an ...

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Towering lava fountains of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano trigger park and highway closures

HONOLULU (AP) — The latest lava fountaining episode of an erupting Hawaii volcano reached 1,000 feet (300 meters) high Tuesday, prompting temporary closures at a national park and part of an important...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Plastic, from home and abroad, spills into Türkiye’s waters

ADANA, Türkiye — Along the final stretch of the Seyhan River, in southern Türkiye, plastic bits in various colors dot the water and sediment. When the river bends, shredded plastic, degraded by the el...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Thai data center boom sparks fears of water shortage, air pollution

This story was produced in collaboration with the Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC). Read the ERC’s story on the impacts of data centers globally here. CHONBURI, Thailand — The sun had yet to r...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

The Wild League aims to turn sports mascots into conservation champions

Lions, tigers and bears aren’t just among the world’s most iconic wildlife. They’re also among the most popular mascots in professional sports. A new study published in BioScience finds that across 50...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

How elephants experience time, and what this tells us about protecting them

Khatijah Rahmat, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany, says she’s trying to build legitimacy around the concept of animal temporality — the abili...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

US development bank left without oversight after watchdog let go

The International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the lending and investment arm of the U.S. government and a key foreign policy tool, has abruptly terminated the director of its Independent Ac...

Mongabay 7/10 ?

Human rights commission calls on Peru to protect isolated Kakataibo people

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has requested that the Peruvian government take action to protect the isolated Kakataibo Indigenous people in the Amazonian departments of Ucayali, Huánuc...

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