Filipino Communities Use Vast Variety of Endemic Plants
By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay In the forested highlands of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, Mingay Dakias knows exactly where to find medicine — not in modern health clinics but in the leaves, roots and vines that grow wild around his community. Taught by his father, who learned from the elders before […]
Palestine Denounces Gaza Devastation as “Ecocide”
The Permanent Mission of the State of Palestine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands has formally described the environmental destruction in Gaza as ecocide, citing that less than 5% of agricultural land remains suitable for cultivation and calling for international legal recognition of the long-term consequences¹. The statement — the first by a state-level actor […]
Greater Equality Is Better for the Planet
Editor’s note: Wealth inequality is higher in the Empire than in almost any other “developed” country and has risen for much of the past 60 years. The Black-white wealth gap reflects a society that has not, does not and will not afford equality of opportunity to all its citizens, a difference in power and opportunity that can be traced […]
Exposing The Impact of Mining on Indigenous and Local Communities
As an environmental news organization, Mongabay closely tracks the social and ecological impacts of mining. Beyond raising awareness and inspiring other media outlets to cover this topic and regularly republish and reference Mongabay, the news Mongabay produces often leads to real-world impact by exposing the harmful practices of powerful people and organizations, compelling them to take […]
Conservation in wealthy nations may worsen global biodiversity loss, study finds
By Shanna Hanbury / Mongabay Efforts to rewild landscapes across Europe and North America could be making global biodiversity loss worse by shifting environmental destruction to poorer, more biodiverse regions, a new study warns. Scientists from the University of Cambridge, U.K., found that when farming and resource extraction move abroad to accommodate conservation in wealthy countries, it can […]
Rich Nations Fuel Global Biodiversity Loss at ‘disproportionate’ Scale
Norway: Thousands of Youth Demonstrated against “Green Colonialism” On March 3, the largest civil disobedience action in recent Norwegian history came to an end. 16 Sami activists occupied the lobby of the Oil and Energy Department, and over 1,500 demonstrators attended in Oslo, including around 100 activists partaking in the occupations. Beginning as a […]
Energy Transitions Threaten Indigenous Peoples and the Environment
Cambodian Environmental Journalist Ouk Mao Arrested
BANGKOK — Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao, whose reporting on illegal logging has seen him attacked both physically and legally, was arrested May 16. Ek Cheat, Mao’s wife, spotted an unmarked white Lexus pull up outside their home in Stung Treng province sometime around midday. Three plainclothes officers entered Mao’s home, handcuffed him and told him […]
Our Humanity Dictates Including Palestine
Palestine is the central geopolitical and moral issue of our time. By Prof Jem Bendell / living with metacrisis and collapse Many of us are lucky that societal collapse is still only a concept. It can be our way of understanding the increasing difficulties we experience, or the increasing damage to the natural world, […]
The Philippines Is Going All-in On Transition Minerals
“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” The island of Mindanao in the Philippines is ringed by beaches and covered in volcanoes and gardens of exotic orchids. Mindanao has been home to the Indigenous Lumad peoples for centuries, but beginning in 2026, the island will become the site […]