news.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu27d ago
- In January, U.S. armed forces removed Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro from office and began opening the mining sector to foreign investment.
Mongabay Globalby Abu Siddique27d ago
- Bangladesh is building a 42.5-megawatt power plant that will burn waste from the main Dhaka landfill as fuel.
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor27d ago
- The authority overseeing Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara, confirmed on Sept. 9 that fires had broken out within the new capital city administrative area; although, the fires were around...
Mongabay Globalby Rebecca Kessler27d ago
- Offshore wind is expanding as an important renewable energy source that many experts say is essential to meeting climate goals.
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu27d ago
- Mongabay interviewed Manish Chandi, a former research scholar who has spent over two decades working on tribal communities, about the latest threats and activities affecting the lives of isolated...
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup27d ago
- Electric fences were responsible for 14 of the 15 giant ground pangolins found dead near Kenya’s Nyekweri Forest since 2022.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta27d ago
A forested tiger reserve in southern India is home to a thriving population of spotted and sambar deer, nilgai antelopes, and wild pigs — all ideal prey for tigers.
Mongabay Globalby Erik Hoffner28d ago
- In early June, 500 conservationists largely from Asian countries assembled in Nepal for the 6th Conservation Asia Congress, organized by the regional chapter of the Society for Conservation...
Mongabay Globalby Terna Gyuse28d ago
- More than 100 organizations have signed the Nairobi Flyways Declaration, pledging to integrate conservation of migratory birds’ intercontinental routes into development planning and finance.
Mongabay Globalby Rebecca Kessler28d ago
- Collisions with ships are a leading anthropogenic killer of the Mediterranean’s two endangered large-bodied cetacean species, sperm and fin whales.
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu28d ago
- In Panama, various initiatives are underway to reduce bycatch of sharks and rays, led by biologists, NGOs, politicians, and local restaurants.
Mongabay Globalby Abu Siddique28d ago
- The Buriganga River in Bangladesh is one of the five most polluted rivers in the world, with heavy metal pollution from chromium, lead and cadmium.
Mongabay Globalby Autumn Spanne28d ago
- The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), a multilateral body that manages tuna and other fish stocks in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, held its annual meeting Aug. 31- Sept.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta28d ago
When researchers began cataloging dragonflies in Guainía, a remote region in eastern Colombia, the scientific record contained only about 10 species.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta28d ago
Three male African wild dogs in Zambia have travelled more than 4,000 kilometers, about 2,500 miles, in search of new territory and mates, according to a new study.
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman28d ago
- A recent study in Vietnam’s central Annamite mountains found biodiversity corridors linking protected areas can significantly boost the income of households living inside them.
Mongabay Globalby Rhett Butler28d ago
- A clownfish’s defense of her eggs became one of the final recorded moments on a Singapore reef buried by land reclamation.
Mongabay Globalby Dilrukshi Handunnetti12 Sept 2026
- Scientists have formally described Mus dumbara, a new species of spiny mouse from Sri Lanka’s Dumbara or Knuckles Mountain Range after years of waiting.
Mongabay Globalby Lucia Torres12 Sept 2026
MADRE DE DIOS, Peru — In Madre de Dios, in the Peruvian Amazon, thousands of people depend on gold mining, while the spread of mercury and deforestation are transforming the country’s most...
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta12 Sept 2026
More than 500 people have invaded Brazil’s Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land in recent weeks, opening illegal roads, setting deliberate fires and threatening federal agents.
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