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Coffee drives tropical deforestation, but doesn't have to
Episode 250
Roughly a billion people enjoy coffee daily, and more than 100 million people rely on it for income. However, the coffee industry is the sixth-larges…
10 months, 1 week ago
Lessons from 30 years of successfully fending off mines in an Ecuadorian cloud forest
Episode 249
Carlos Zorrilla has been living in an Ecuadorian cloud forest since the 1970s, and his last 30 years there have been spent fighting mining companies …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Ministry for the Future' has lessons for the present
Episode 248
Five years since Kim Stanley Robinson's groundbreaking climate fiction novel, The Ministry for the Future, hit The New York Times bestseller list, th…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Why protected Congo rainforests look 'like a war zone'
Episode 247
Nearly half of the Republic of Congo's dense rainforests are protected under the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+)…
11 months, 1 week ago
Inspiring action for the ocean wins top environmental prize for ex-engineer
Episode 246
Carlos Mallo Molina has been awarded the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for protecting the marine biodiversity of Tenerife, the most populated of t…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
'De-extinction' is misleading and dangerous, ecologist says
Episode 245
A biotech company in the United States made headlines last month by revealing photos of genetically modified gray wolves, calling them "dire wolves,"…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
How the sounds of whales guide conservation efforts
Episode 244
Biological oceanographer John Ryan joins Mongabay's podcast to discuss his team's multiyear study that examined vocalizations of baleen whales, inclu…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
How a prize-winning project brought saiga antelope back from the brink
Episode 243
Two decades ago a group of NGOs came together with the government of Kazakhstan to save the dwindling population of saiga antelope living in the enor…
1 year ago
The impact-driven success of Mongabay's nonprofit news model
Episode 242
Media outlets are downsizing newsrooms and the audience for traditional news is in decline, but Mongabay continues to grow thanks to its impact-drive…
1 year ago
The climate movement must move beyond carbon and emphasize humanity, too, Paul Hawken says
Episode 241
Renowned author, activist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken joins Mongabay's podcast to discuss his new book, Carbon: The Book of Life, and argues that th…
1 year ago