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2025

Cape vulture conservation offers hope, but challenges remain – Mongabay

As renewable diesel surges, sustainability claims are deeply questioned – Mongabay

Solutions needed as climate change & land use fuel global crop pest menace – Mongabay

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change – Mongabay

Conserving vultures in Southern Africa may provide substantial economic gain: Report – Mongabay

Betting on future forest carbon storage endangers Paris Agreement targets – Mongabay

Ground-level ozone pollution poses growing threat to planetary health – Mongabay

Africa’s last tropical glaciers are melting away along with local livelihoods – Mongabay

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health – Mongabay

Aiding natural pollination can boost cacao yields & climate resilience
– Mongabay

Vicuña poop creates biodiversity hotspots as glaciers retreat rapidly
– Mongabay

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats
– Mongabay

Lures that attract seed-dispersing bats could aid tropical reforestation
– Mongabay

2024

Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys were found in only two places on Earth. Now it’s one
– Mongabay

Electrochemical removal of ocean CO2 offers potential — and concerns
– Mongabay

Next-gen geothermal offers circular promise, but needs care and caution
– Mongabay

Direct air capture climate solution faces harsh criticism, steep challenges
– Mongabay

Brazil natural landscape degradation drives toxic metal buildup in bats
– Mongabay

Land use change impacting seven planetary boundaries, solutions urgent, say scientists
– Mongabay

Vulture poisonings in the Serengeti alarm conservationists – Mongabay

Atmospheric methane removal: A promising but challenging climate solution
– Mongabay

Calls for caution as enhanced rock weathering shows carbon capture promise – Mongabay

As 25 Earth vital signs worsen, scientists warn of ‘irreversible climate disaster’ – Mongabay

As tidal power rides a wave of clean energy optimism, pitfalls persist – Mongabay

Inaugural Planetary Health Check finds ocean acidification on the brink – Mongabay

Ancient Egyptians had poor posture at work, too – Discover Magazine

Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions – Mongabay

Aluminum and steel take environment and health toll, even as demand grows – Mongabay

Are sharks ingesting bales of cocaine and other pollutants? – Discover Magazine

Some of the earliest known jokes were written down 4,000 years ago – Discover Magazine

Hooded vultures in Ghana and South Africa on the brink, study says – Mongabay

Cloud brightening over oceans may stave off climate change, but with risk – Mongabay

Most complete dinosaur fossil found in UK was 125 million years old – Discover Magazine

Geoengineering gains momentum, but governance is lacking, critics say – Mongabay

Seagrass and Plastic Are Not Friends – Hakai Magazine

Action plan to save West African vultures targets threat from belief-based use – Mongabay

Mysterious, at risk, understudied flat-headed cat lacks conservation focus – Mongabay

Saving Asia’s fishing cat means protecting threatened wetland habitat – Mongabay

Circular solutions vital to curb enviro harm from cement and concrete – Mongabay

Salt Played a Pivotal Role in Ancient Human History – Discover Magazine

A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain – Mongabay

Ancient People Wore Jewelry for its Protective Power, and Other Mystical Purposes – Discover Magazine

Climate change brews trouble for tea industry, but circular solutions await – Mongabay

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows – Mongabay

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather – Mongabay

One-Eyed-Looking Mammoth Fossils May Have Inspired Origins of the Cyclops – Mongabay

Endangered vulture species nesting in Ghana is rare good news about raptors – Mongabay

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy – Mongabay

Study: Tiny tortoise may play large role in South Africa’s Karoo landscape – Mongabay

2023

Did a dust plume kill the dinosaurs? – Discover Magazine

Incentivizing conservation shows success against wildlife hunting in Cameroon – Mongabay

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say – Mongabay

Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’ – Mongabay

Beyond Climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries – Mongabay

Crime analysis sheds light on tiger poaching in Malaysia – Mongabay

Study: Wild meat trade from Africa into Belgium a health and conservation risk – Mongabay

Off Mexico’s coast, world’s largest limpet is slipping into extinction – Mongabay

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy – Mongabay

Study: Tall trees and shade boost bat diversity on Africa’s cocoa farms – Mongabay

EVs offer climate hope, but total auto supply chain revamp is vital (Part two) – Mongabay

Internal combustion vs. EVs: Learning from the past to boost sustainability (Part one) – Mongabay

Study reveals turtles’ millennia-old food affair with North African seagrass – Mongabay

A dinosaur lovers dream: Travel back to the times of Deinocheirus – Discover Magazine

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot? – Mongabay

Small wildcats pose big challenges, but coexistence is very much possible – Mongabay

Aviation’s climate conundrum: More than sustainable fuels needed (Part two) – Mongabay

Sustainable aviation fuels: Potential lagging behind reality (Part one) – Mongabay

Do We Know If Dinosaurs Were Smart Enough to Hunt In Packs?
– Discover Magazine

Drones improve counts of rare Cao-vit gibbon, identify conservation priorities – Mongabay

‘Tree islands’ boost diversity in oil palm plantations, study finds – Mongabay

Protected areas store a year’s worth of CO₂ emissions, study reveals – Mongabay

Study: Snares claim another local extinction as Cambodia loses its leopards – Mongabay

Unearthing the most well-preserved dinosaur embryos – Discover Magazine

Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human waste – Mongabay

Snares don’t discriminate: A problem for wild cats, both big and small – Mongabay

Study shows Javan leopard habitat shrinking, but real picture may be worse – Mongabay

What are Neglected Tropical Diseases? – Discover Magazine

Small cats face big threats: Reasons to save these elusive endangered species – Mongabay

Conservationists unite to tackle Latin America’s dog threat to wild cats – Mongabay

What We Know About the Hard-Headed Pachycephalosaurus
– Discover Magazine

Jatropha: The biofuel that bombed seeks a path to redemption – Mongabay

National corridor project aims to save Chile’s endangered huemul deer
– Mongabay

Vulture carrion potential boon and threat for endangered Iberian lynx: Studies
– Mongabay

Orca Killer Whale Moms Pay a Steep Price to Feed Their Adult Sons
– Discover Magazine

In Calakmul, water troughs offer possible solution to human-wildlife conflict – Mongabay

A liquid biofuels primer: Carbon-cutting hopes vs. real-world impacts – Mongabay

Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase – Mongabay

Peeling back the sediment layers – Hakai Magazine

Deforestation could pose disease threat to Amazon’s white-lipped peccaries – Mongabay

What the builders of Stonehenge liked to eat – Discover Magazine

How effective is Alcoholics Anonymous? – Discover Magazine

Restore linked habitat to protect tropical amphibians from disease: Study – Mongabay

Forest loss may push tree-dependent marbled cats into threatened category – Mongabay

Plastic works its way up the food chain to hit fishing cats, study shows – Mongabay

EU demand for frogs’ legs raises risks of local extinctions, experts warn – Mongabay

Archaeological Treasures Hidden Beneath the Colosseum – Discover Magazine

Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities – Mongabay

Debunking 3 common climate change myths – Discover Magazine

2022

Tobacco: Vaping and smoking drive environmental harm from farm to fingertip
– Mongabay

Global study reveals widespread salt marsh decline
– Mongabay

What to do when the recovery of one species puts another at risk?
– Hakai Magazine

To save threatened Amazon primates in Brazil, turn them into the main attraction – Mongabay

How much trash is in our oceans? – Discover Magazine

Plastic impacts a grossly underestimated ‘one-two punch’ for seabirds: Study – Mongabay

Severe malaria cases in rescued orangutans raises concerns for wild populations – Mongabay

Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease – Mongabay

Community study sheds light on wild cat killings in Brazil’s central Amazon – Mongabay

Patagonian Shipwreck Could Be 150-Year-Old Rhode Island Whaler – Discover Magazine

Did This Giant Sea Lizard Rule the Oceans 66 Million Years Ago? – Discover Magazine

These 7 New Dinosaur Species Were Unearthed In 2022 – Discover Magazine

Orcas Have Social Trends Like Us, And This One Could Get Dangerous For Boats – Discover Magazine

Female Monkeys Live Longer If They Have a Social Life – Discover Magazine

In Vietnam, farmers show a willingness to work with the elephant in the room – Mongabay

6 Animals With Unusual Evolutionary Traits – Discover Magazine

These 4 Animals Depend on Leadership to Survive – Discover Magazine

Zero-deforestation commitments ‘fundamentally limited’ in tackling deforestation, study argues – Mongabay

These 5 Modern Inventions Actually Have Ancient Roots – Discover Magazine

Education can change local perception of bats, help conserve species, study says – Mongabay

Larger, 65-foot-long Megalodon Might Have Fed on Whales – Discover Magazine

7 World-Famous Explorers and Their Scientific Discoveries – Discover Magazine

How does climate change affect biodiversity? – Discover Magazine

From South America to Southeast Asia, Tour Boats Threaten Wildlife – Discover Magazine

Consumed: Cocaine – Mongabay

Defining the Line Between Missing and Extinct Species
– Discover Magazine

Delectable but destructive: Tracing chocolate’s environmental life cycle – Mongabay

Study assesses wildlife exposure to rat poison on oil palm plantations – Mongabay

Bats in Germany are riddled with pesticides and toxic pollutants – New Scientist

Facial recognition – Now for seals – Hakai Magazine

To win island-wide conservation, Indonesia’s Talaud bear cuscus needs to win hearts – Mongabay

Legal and illegal cannabis: A cause for growing environmental concern – Mongabay

Rehabilitation research returns orphaned cheetahs to the wild – Mongabay

Study warns of risk from feline viruses to wild cats on the palm oil frontier – Mongabay

‘It’s just a bird’: Online platforms selling lesser-known Indonesian species – Mongabay

The surprising scale of the seagrass sanitation service – Hakai Magazine

Saving the near-extinct estuarine pipefish means protecting estuary health – Mongabay

Brazil Tree Cam Captures Possible Self-Medicating Behavior in Mammals – Discover Magazine

Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns – Mongabay

Is it time to change tack in the ‘war on rats’? – Discover Magazine

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine – Mongabay

Seagrass joins other marine life in accumulating sunscreen compounds – Mongabay

Online trade in rare silvery pigeon is cause for concern, researchers say – Mongabay

Getting away with it in ancient Rome – Fakes, frauds, and forgeries – Ancient History Magazine (Print only)

If managed properly, whale and dolphin carcasses can benefit coastal ecosystems – Discover Magazine

Interspecies fight club offers hope for Noble crayfish- Discover Magazine

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters – Mongabay

A brief history of the ancient cat – Ancient History Magazine (Print only)

The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks – Mongabay

Invasive plants are threatening Rome’s ancient monuments – Discover Magazine

How to deal with the global human sewage problem? | Mongabay Explains – Mongabay

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem – Mongabay

The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste – Mongabay

Older

Rome’s forgotten triumphator – Publius Ventidius – Ancient History Magazine (Print only)

Beards and back again – The growth of facial hair in Ancient Rome – Ancient History Magazine (Print only)

Power meets familial politics: Divorce in Ancient Rome – Ancient History Magazine (Print only)

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests – Mongabay

A tale of two policies: climate change, Trump, and the U.S. military – Mongabay

IUCN, UN, global NGOs, likely to see major budget cuts under Trump – Mongabay

Indonesians plant trees to nurse seagrass back to health in Wakatobi – Mongabay

Unfair trade: US beef has a climate problem – Mongabay

Island-hopping toxic toad threatens iconic Komodo Dragon – Mongabay

All that glitters is covered in sewage: Gold & silver found in Swiss sewage – The Culture Trip

A clouded future: Asia’s enigmatic clouded leopard threatened by palm oil – Mongabay

‘Invasive snake’ is really a new species and should be protected – New Scientist

Put down your pitchforks, Switzerland’s hellhound lookalike is just an ordinary beast – Earth Touch News

The plan to reintroduce a big cat that might never have existed – New Scientist

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon – Mongabay

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered – Mongabay

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble – Mongabay

Losing all the glaciers in Switzerland is not that far away – The Local CH

The “Crypt-keeper wasp” – BioWeb

A toxic threat to the jaguars of the Pantanal – Earth Touch News 

New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride – New Scientist

Yaqui catfish faces extinction in the US by 2018 – Earth Touch News

Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids – Mongabay

Bolivia’s domestic parrot trade supplied by birds seen as “crop pests” – Mongabay

The Maned wolf: saving South America’s unfortunately-named canid – Mongabay

Industry wields too much influence over U.S. pesticide regulation, says study – Mongabay

Galapagos “gold rush” feeds global hunger for shark fins, sea cucumbers – Mongabay

Oil roads to ecological ruin: Ecuador’s bushmeat and wildlife trade – Mongabay

Tracking the tiny: Harmonic direction finders aid study of small amphibians – Mongabay

Saving the Barbary macaque: An interview with Dr. Sian Waters – Mongabay

Feline unseen: The African Golden Cat – Mongabay

13 ‘keystone’ corporations hold sway over sustainability of global fisheries – Mongabay

Antibiotics revolution? iChip promises resistance-free antibiotics – Mongabay

Moratoria beat certification to reduce deforestation for soy, palm oil, cattle – Mongabay

Scientists find surprising climate change refuge for reef-building corals: beneath mangroves – Mongabay

New study finds the brilliant-thighed poison frog can learn its way home – Mongabay