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A massive black bear weighing 550 pounds has turned a homeowner’s worst nightmare into reality by taking up residence in the crawl space beneath a house in Altadena, California. The unwelcome guest has been camping out under Ken Johnson’s home…
In a moving ceremony on northern Wisconsin’s Clam Lake, members of the St. Croix Chippewa Tribe recently released thousands of six-month-old lake sturgeon into the wild—marking a significant milestone in their conservation efforts. After offering prayers to their ancestors, tribal…
High in the western Himalayas above Pahalgam, the Kolahoi glacier tells a stark story of climate change. What was once a massive white river of ice has shrunk to a “thinning, rumpled ribbon,” exposing bare mountainsides and creating entirely new…
Climate scientist claims US derailed UN environmental assessment as Britain cracks down on North Sea exploration but Canada moves forward with pipeline expansion. Meanwhile, 230+ environmental groups demand national data center moratorium over energy concerns.
As wildlife populations face unprecedented threats from habitat destruction, climate change, and human encroachment, environmental news organization Mongabay has announced the creation of a specialized Wildlife Desk to intensify coverage of the global biodiversity crisis. “We are losing species at…
For over two millennia, humans have known that fish make sounds, yet we’ve barely scratched the surface of understanding their underwater conversations. A groundbreaking new device is changing that, offering fresh hope for protecting the thousands of marine species facing…
In an age where environmental challenges span from local communities to global systems, effective environmental journalism requires combining ground-level reporting with high-tech monitoring tools, according to Mongabay founder Rhett Butler. Rather than relying solely on high-level perspectives from boardrooms and…
The Tapanuli orangutan, Earth’s most endangered ape species, is facing extinction as Indonesia’s Martabe gold mine expands deeper into the primates’ only remaining habitat in Sumatra’s rainforest. With fewer than 800 individuals left in the wild, this critically endangered species…
A sobering new United Nations report reveals that unsustainable food and fossil fuel production is wreaking environmental havoc at an unprecedented scale—causing $5 billion worth of damage every single hour. The staggering figure, equivalent to £3.8 billion hourly, underscores the…
Botswana’s decision to resume elephant trophy hunting in 2019 after a five-year ban is creating a crisis within the country’s elephant populations, with mature bulls being hunted to near-extinction levels, according to a new report by Elephants Without Borders (EWB).…
