Mongabay - Conservation News
WEB2 days ago · Environmental science and conservation news. The European Union has stood firm on its new deforestation law, rejecting calls from global agricultural exporters to push back its implementation.
In Mexico, scientists race to save Marietas Islands’ corals from …
WEB1 day ago · Temperatures in the Pacific Ocean broke records in 2023 as climate change and El Niño destroyed a large part of Mexico’s Islas Marietas National Park.
We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but …
WEBAug 4, 2022 · According to experts, we have passed the planetary boundary for land systems change — the human-caused loss of forest — and risk destabilizing Earth’s operating systems. Scientists calculate ...
Ever-smarter consumer electronics push world toward …
WEB1 day ago · In 2024, the consumer electronics market alone is expected to top $809 billion, exceeding $1.4 trillion by 2034. But there’s a dark side to this tech miracle: Our digital age love affair with ...
Canada’s 2023 wildfires doubled the previous burning record
WEB2 days ago · Climate change has tripled the risk of fires in Canada’s boreal forests, according to the 2023–24 State of Wildfires report, meaning the ecosystem is more prone to burning over larger areas ...
Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet
WEBSep 22, 2021 · The creation of synthetic fertilizers in the early 20th century was a turning point in human history, enabling an increase in crop yields and causing a population boom. But the overuse of nitrogen ...
Deforestation in Borneo threatens one in four orangutans, study says
WEBJul 26, 2022 · Deforestation in Borneo will destroy the habitat of more than 26,000 orangutans, a quarter of the population of the critically endangered species, by 2032, a new study says.
The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet …
WEBMar 30, 2021 · The world’s crops will need to feed 8 billion people by 2023, putting incredible pressure on Earth Systems. Image by Albert Aschl via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).. Yet these very same hallmarks of ...
Canine distemper likely infecting & killing Nepal’s leopards, study …
WEB2 days ago · A recent study confirms that canine distemper virus (CDV) is circulating among common leopards (Panthera pardus) in Nepal, causing fatalities; this is the first documentation of live CDV in ...
We have turned the Amazon into a net greenhouse gas emitter: …
WEBMar 19, 2021 · In a first-of-its-kind effort, scientists have calculated the balance of all natural and human-caused greenhouse gases coming in and out of the Amazon Basin — and found that the region is now a ...