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The complexities of the climate crisis are a tough sell to audiences but these plays in New York show it can be done Despite (or perhaps because of) its overwhelming awfulness, the climate crisis has been oddly underrepresented on stage…
Set up by three ‘eco-anxious’ farmers, WildEast has created UK-wide version of pledge to encourage people to restore nature A grassroots movement to wild a fifth of East Anglia is going national with the launch of Wild Kingdom’s “map of…
The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja Zerga, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. There will likely never be another one. The species, Numenius tenuirostris, has officially been declared extinct…
Meet the leaders of Mongabay’s global newsroom — people who have built Mongabay into an impactful news organization capable of telling underreported environmental stories relevant to audiences worldwide. This series profiles Mongabay’s journalists through candid conversations that explore how we’ve…
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. “I knew I was disposable.” That realization, from earlier in his career, helps guide Willie Shubert today in building a kind and capable…
A South African court has nullified the environmental authorization for state-owned electricity utility Eskom’s proposed 3,000-megawatt gas-fired power plant. The court cited multiple reasons for its decision, including the failure to adequately consult local residents and consider the full impacts…
The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen its claim to this newly contested region.
If you’re a writer or filmmaker hoping to create a hell on earth, might as well start with the most famous city in the world.
The U.S. doesn’t produce the minerals and metals needed for renewable energy, microchips or military technology. Authorities want to change that as quickly as possible. By Dylan Baddour Major oil companies are drilling in East Texas again, but not for…
It’s the seventh state to pass a law requiring climate education in public schools. The requirement will kick in next fall. By Amber X. Chen Last year, Laura Stamp asked her eighth-grade students a thought-provoking question: If they could redesign…