Christiana Figueres and Garik Israelian on Jane Goodall's legacy and the search for truth
A new award has been created in honor of late conservation icon Jane Goodall by the board of the Starmus Festival , an international gatheri...
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In Bhutan, the pursuit of happiness extends to the food system
Bhutan is a Himalayan kingdom sandwiched between China and India. Forty percent of its 800,000 citizens work in the agriculture sector. The...
'Remembering Wildlife' before it goes extinct
British wildlife photographer Margot Raggett says she created the book Remembering Elephants after she heard David Attenborough say, "The qu...
Historic fire seasons are the 'new normal' without 'serious action' on climate change
Elizabeth Goldman is a co-director of Global Nature Watch , previously known as Global Forest Watch, a database measuring forest loss that's...
The 'quiet revolution' inspired by Delhi's urban wildlife
In her upcoming book, My Wild City: Finding Nature, Meaning, and Hope in India ' s Capital , conservation biologist Neha Sinha takes readers...
Why are forests in Liberia disappearing?
On this week's episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with features writer Ashoka Mukpo, who traveled to southeastern Liberia to investi...
Oil has brought destruction to the Niger Delta; women and human rights may save it
On this week's episode of the Mongabay Newscast, I speak with travel writer Noo Saro-Wiwa . She has documented the violence and natural dest...
The Mediterranean Sea's beauty hides an ecosystem under pressure
The Mediterranean Sea accounts for less than 1% of the world's ocean surface water, but it contains roughly 18% of global marine biodiversit...
Wildlife crossings are having a moment
Nearly three years ago, Newscast guest, author and journalist Ben Goldfarb discussed his book Crossings , which is about wildlife crossings...
The radical plan to rethink work, wealth and planetary well-being
A group of more than 40 researchers spent 20 months devising a plan for the world to achieve ecological sustainability within planetary boun...
Addressing the 'toxic legacy' of mining in Bougainville
Theonila Roka Matbob grew up next to what was — at the time — the world's largest open-pit mine in Bougainville, an autonomous island in Pap...
Healing the planet requires healing ourselves, says Katharine Wilkinson
Katharine Wilkinson has a Ph.D. in geography and the environment, is well known for being a co-author of the book Drawdown and co-founder of...
A 'coalition of the willing' to urge the world to drop fossil fuels
A group of 57 nations mostly from the Global South, describing themselves as "coalition of the willing" intent on making the Transition Away...
Australia claims it's 'on track' to meet its environment targets. Scientists disagree
Australia is one of 17 "megadiverse" countries that account for 70% of Earth's biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the high...
The world must address pandemic threats urgently, says former CDC officer
"[The]cruel irony here [is] that the world cannot get its act together to address these threats … people are dying, animals are suffering, w...
Protest works, but it needs your help now more than ever, veteran activists say
"We are experiencing what some people call sort of a shutdown of the public square in the United States and around the world," says veteran...
A new Netflix documentary captures rare mountain gorilla behavior
"That might be something that you see in a decade, not in two years of filming," Tara Stoinksi, CEO of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, tells m...
Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry through reciprocity, not extraction
Forester and scientist Suzanne Simard is well known for her landmark 1997 paper , which demonstrated that two distinct species of trees coul...
Across oceans, seabird flyways gain recognition — and a chance at protection
The routes taken by migratory birds, known as flyways, often cross vast expanses of ocean. Six of these marine flyways have now been formall...
The coyotes next door: What we get wrong about America's 'song dog'
Coyotes are now present in almost every major urban-metropolitan area in the United States, yet conflicts between the canines and humans are...