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Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The world’s largest remaining stretches of undisturbed forest are shrinking. Fires now cause more of the loss than logging, while mining and oil…
The Earth keeps getting hotter and experts fear this year’s El Niño, nicknamed ‘Godzilla’ because of its predicted intensity, could raise global temperatures by up to 3.6C. Environment correspondent Damien Gayle spoke to climate scientists to understand how the weather…
The company behind BuzzBallz said they were recyclable on its website, but experts say this is not true.
Africa’s smallest wildcat uses abandoned springhare burrows to raise its kittens, according to new research. There are fewer than 10,000 black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) left in the wild and studies on these nocturnal animals are rare. To learn more about…
CapuchinAI, a portable testing station equipped with a touch screen and facial recognition software, could help scientists study primate intelligence in the wild.
The computer models meteorologists use aren’t 100 percent accurate. But natural weather forecasters seem to have a sixth sense for sudden squalls.
Matthew Myerscough’s remarkable find is one of many detailed in his new book. But his journey into fossil hunting began years earlier, when he was caught in an avalanche When Matthew Myerscough walks along a beach, he cannot help hunting…
Bassirou Sani Boubacar Gaoh has spent the last decade trying to figure out how the plants feeding millions across Niger can better withstand the unpredictability of a warming planet. Extreme heatwaves and severe droughts that alternate with heavy rainfall and…
California has spent nearly two decades relying on taxpayers to finance its high-speed rail project. Now it’s looking to private investors. Whether any step up remains an open question. The search for private money was always part of the plan.…
A County Tyrone group says it has made progress tackling Giant Hogweed.