Environment & Sustainability

After four decades of research, a scientist returns to the Amazon in an effort to change the behavior that has lead to years of environmental crisis.

Trend is adding to ‘waste crisis’ owing to individual packaging and potential for unwanted items, campaigners say The trend for Advent calendars aimed at adults is “superfluous consumerism” that adds to excessive and wasteful consumption, according to environmental groups. While…

Yellowstone has long been a mecca for scientists studying how predators affect everything from elk grazing to vegetation height. They are still debating how to make sense of what they’ve learned. By Jake Bolster When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife…

This is how the fund, which was seeded with $5.5 billion during COP30, will work—and why the Earth needs it. Interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering, Living on Earth From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental…

National Trust begins planting the 49 ‘trees of hope’ so the illegally felled tree can live on in a positive way Saplings from the felled Sycamore Gap tree are to be planted across the UK, including at a pit disaster…

UK energy secretary says UN climate talks must find way to keep proposals alive despite significant resistance Supporters of a global phaseout of fossil fuels must find “creative” ways to keep the proposal alive, including making it voluntary rather than…

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Early on November 16th, gunfire broke the quiet around Pyelito Kue in southern Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. By dawn, the Kaiowá were…

The departure points to an intractable conflict between environmental justice groups and the California Air Resources Board over the impacts of carbon markets. By Blanca Begert While Governor Gavin Newsom was touting California’s climate leadership last week in Brazil at…

California and Florida lawmakers oppose the plan. It’s the latest in the president’s doubling down on fossil fuels, and a rare example of Republican pushback. By Keerti Gopal It’s not often that the governors of California and Florida are on…

First the plant stalk is harvested, shredded, and crushed. The extracted juice is then combined with bacteria and yeast in large bioreactors, where the sugars are metabolized and converted into ethanol and carbon dioxide. From there, the liquid is typically…