New Future

A few years back, a particularly imaginative young boy came into Georgina Berg’s kindergarten class in Churchill, Canada, full of excitement. Launching into his story, he said that moments earlier, on his way to school, he and his siblings had turned a corner and come face-to-face with a polar bear.

YAOUNDÉ — It’s not uncommon to see chimpanzees kept as pets in private homes and hotels in Guinea-Bissau. Chimpanzees can be seen chained to trees or metal poles, or living alone in small metal cages, often without a permanent water source and lacking room to walk or jump around.

Poverty and poor border controls have allowed young women to be trafficked into the sex trade catering to illegal gold miners in Brazil’s border areas with countries like Guyana and Venezuela.

KATHMANDU — In March 2021, dozens of elephants marched through the grasslands and sal forests of Chitwan National Park, their riders armed with GPS devices and notebooks, searching for one of Asia’s most iconic megafauna: the greater one-horned rhinoceros .

In the often fractious landscape of environmental discourse, S. Gopikrishna Warrier is a steadying presence. As the editorial director of Mongabay-India, Warrier has spent the past seven years cultivating a newsroom that brings light, not heat, to India’s environmental challenges.

The Amazon is often described as one of the planet’s most effective carbon regulation systems. Yet recent data suggest its ability to absorb carbon is increasingly concentrated in specific places.

In the center of the village is a soccer field. Around it, in nicely painted wood, are the main community buildings of the roughly 1,000 Kapohn Indigenous people who live on the banks of the Kako River, in an area of preserved Amazonian forest less than 40 kilometers from Guyana’s border with Venezuela.

Technology can be a powerful ally in conservation, but it’s not a silver bullet. Too often, tools like drones, GPS apps or satellite imagery are introduced as standalone solutions, disconnected from those who have stewarded these ecosystems for generations. What’s missing isn’t innovation. It’s inclusion.

The mvule is a giant of a tree, up to 50 meters tall, with a trunk 6 m around. To collect seeds from such a large tree, climbers work in a team of three, explains Sebastain Walaita, curator at the Tooro Botanical Gardens in Uganda.

The Afro-Asiatic wildcat is the world’s most widely distributed wildcat, but experts and information on the species are scarce. The species’ range is immense, stretching across most of Africa, Southwest and Central Asia, India, China and Mongolia. But Arash Ghoddousi, lead author for F.

KoBold Metals, a U. S. -based mining exploration company, has announced a deal to buy Australian AVZ Minerals Ltd. ’s stake in a contested lithium project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Extensive deposits of key minerals mean the DRC is likely a key player in the transition to green energy.

Where are all the marine animals going? Given the vastness of the oceans, the countless species that live in them, and the lack of a global data set, it’s not easy to figure that out. However, the increasing threats that marine life face mean answering that question is key to protecting animals and their habitats.

JAKARTA — Industrial plantations of trees to make paper and wood pellets are causing widespread and persistent environmental and social violations in Indonesia, despite claims to the contrary by the industry and government, a new report shows.

A recent study reveals that drifting fish aggregating devices , widely used in tuna fishing, have spread to more than a third of the world’s oceans. These devices harm ocean life and coastal communities, but weak rules and lack of accountability make it hard to manage them properly, some conservationists say.