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A new report found that environmental defenders are increasingly encountering overlapping networks of government officials, corporations, criminal groups and private security forces. By Katie Surma Environmental and Indigenous rights defenders remained among the world’s most targeted human rights advocates in…
As the barrier island loses land and residents, engineered efforts could combat the rising sea water that surrounds it. By Charles Paullin TANGIER, Va.— Terry Parks stood in the rear of a boat passing the western shore of Tangier Island.
This month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, unveiled a set of sweeping recommendations to rein in rampant data center development, urging Texas lawmakers to aggressively regulate the tech industry in a state that has…
There’s an increasingly narrow strip of marshland in New Orleans that hardly anyone lives on, but without it, hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana will face far greater risks from storms and floods. The area, commonly called the New…
The lagoons of Mannar in northern Sri Lanka attract large flocks of pink and white greater flamingos every year, which drive a vital tourism industry in the region. However, recent fatalities of the migratory birds from collisions with power cables…
When Kekuewa Kikiloi boarded a research vessel to visit the northwestern Hawaiian islands in 2002, he didn’t know what to expect. Kikiloi grew up on Oʻahu, but like a lot of Native Hawaiians, he had never had the opportunity to…
KATHMANDU — Rodney Jackson pioneered the radio-tracking study of snow leopards in Nepal’s Langu Valley in the early 1980s and has, since then, worked across the species’ range from Ladakh to Mongolia to the Pakistani Karakoram ranges. In 1981, he…
In Antarctica’s extreme cold, plants blanket small ice-free areas in bursts of green. These include two native species of flowering plants, 116 moss species, and several liverworts and lichens. Until now, however, none had been assessed for their extinction risk…
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The white-necked picathartes is easy to miss. In Taï National Park, in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire, it nests beneath rocky overhangs, shaping mud cups…
The Amazon is often described in terms of how much carbon it stores. It also moves vast amounts of water. Its trees draw moisture from the soil and return it to the air through transpiration. Some rain caught by…