Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For Ochieng’ Ogodo, science was never a subject to be sequestered in ivory towers. It belonged in the hands of the people—decoded, demystified, and, above all, delivered with clarity and conviction.
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This is the first of a three-part series on underreported issues involving Canadian mining companies and Indigenous peoples or local communities. Read part one here. Shrouded in the lush vegetation of the páramo, the Andean tundra landscape, the quiet wetlands and moorlands of Quimsacocha in southern Ecuador are at the center of a dispute.
Over the past few decades, the harvesting of the Cortez oyster in western Mexico’s Marismas Nacionales — or the Marshes Biosphere Reserve — in Nayarit state has shifted from suffering from a fishing crisis to seeing a successful effort in its reintroduction and breeding in the ecosystem.
The Trump administration has made much of Harvard’s supposed failure to address antisemitism in the wake of campus protests against the genocide in Gaza, but the attacks on the university have less to do with “civil liberties” than consolidating power and punishing critics.
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of Ochieng’ Ogodo, Mongabay’s East Africa Editor, who died early Thursday morning in Nairobi, Kenya, at the age of 64. According to his family, Ochieng experienced sudden and severe chest pain around 2: 00 a. m.
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has raised serious concerns over the European Union Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR, saying it imposes a heavy administrative burden on smallholders while lacking clarity and consistency in its enforcement.
On Wednesday, Alejandro Vilca, a socialist deputy with the PTS, was tear-gassed during a weekly pensioners protest in Argentina. He offers a powerful example of socialists’ role in electoral politics.
Trump’s zigzags on tariffs could undermine his credibility in an escalating trade war with China, which threatens to violently “decouple” the two economies.