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JALAPÃO, Mexico — Capim dourado, or golden grass, grows in Jalapão, a wild part of the Brazilian Cerrado, the most biodiverse savanna in the world. With its unique color, the grass has lifted women through generations, bringing security and beauty…
Born in the French city of Brest in 1962, archaeologist Stéphen Rostain has worked in the Amazon for more than 40 years, primarily in French Guiana and Ecuador. He has authored or co-authored more than 450 publications on the rainforest’s…
Ed Miliband’s move to bring forward ban is gambit to stop would-be Reform voters from backing Nigel Farage’s pro-fracking party UK politics live – latest updates Ed Miliband announced on Wednesday that Labour is to speed up plans to bring…
The 30ft-high wall between the US and Mexico will cut through one of the last unbroken grasslands in the west, leaving residents alarmed over the potential impact on wildlife and water use On a late summer day in September, the…
The government says it plans to pass legislation to permanently ban fracking for shale gas in England.
Biologists in Brazil have documented a jaguar swimming an estimated 2.3 kilometers, or 1.4 miles, across an artificial reservoir in the Cerrado savanna, the longest confirmed swim by the species to date. The previous scientific record, published in 1932, was…
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An alum of Noma in Copenhagen, Dan Giusti is on a mission to transform institutional cooking – but getting fellow chefs to buy in hasn’t been easy At the Dream Mott Haven charter school this summer, more than a hundred…
Ed Miliband announces government will speed up plans to ban controversial practice supported by Nigel Farage Ed Miliband has announced that the government is to speed up its plans to permanently ban fracking in the UK, in order to counter…
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The music began long before humans arrived. Rivers carried their basslines downstream, insects beat time in the dusk, and birds poured their arias…