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Trust-based philanthropy: Lessons from MacKenzie Scott and Laurene Powell Jobs (commentary)

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Source Author | 0 Comments

More than eight hundred years ago, Maimonides wrote that the highest form of giving is to make charity itself unnecessary. That wisdom feels newly relevant today as questions about power…

High-pressure maintenance procedure led to valve rupture in fatal US Steel blast

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Reid Frazier | 0 Comments

The valve that burst was originally built in 1953. The company used a high-pressure technique that resulted in a rupture. The post High-pressure maintenance procedure led to valve rupture in…

Negro River study finds genetic damage in fish after oil spill

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Source Author | 0 Comments

On the morning of March 26, 2013, approximately 60,000 liters (16,000 gallons) of an oil byproduct used to produce asphalt spilled from a barge on the Negro River, near the…

South African sharks threatened by fisheries, weak enforcement

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Source Author | 0 Comments

Gqeberha, SOUTH AFRICA — On June 17, marine biologist Enrico Gennari and a group of students set out into the water in South Africa’s Mossel Bay. They were planning to…

Mining the deep-sea could further threaten endangered sharks and rays

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Source Author | 0 Comments

New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras — many of which are already at risk of…

Guava yields in South Asia shrink due to unpredictable heat & rainfall

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Source Author | 0 Comments

Guava farmer Haralal Halder, in his 45 years of farming profession in coastal Bangladesh, had never experienced a drought-like spell with soaring temperatures during April-May period, the flowering season, until…

The slender-billed curlew, a migratory waterbird, is officially extinct: IUCN

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Source Author | 0 Comments

The last known photo of the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory waterbird, was taken in February 1995 at Merja Zerga, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. There will likely never be another…

Conversations with Mongabay leaders

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Source Author | 0 Comments

Meet the leaders of Mongabay’s global newsroom — people who have built Mongabay into an impactful news organization capable of telling underreported environmental stories relevant to audiences worldwide. This series…

Measuring success in trees, not clicks

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Source Author | 0 Comments

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. “I knew I was disposable.” That realization, from earlier in his career, helps…

South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Source Author | 0 Comments

A South African court has nullified the environmental authorization for state-owned electricity utility Eskom’s proposed 3,000-megawatt gas-fired power plant. The court cited multiple reasons for its decision, including the failure…