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23.07.2024

Sacrificing U.S. forests for solar energy "misses the plot" on climate action

U.S. states such as Vermont and Massachusetts are cutting thousands of acres of forest for solar power projects, despite the fact that this harms biodiversity and degrades ecosystems' carbon sequestration capacity. Journalist and author Judith Schwartz joins the Mongabay Newscast to speak with co-host Mike DiGirolamo about the seeming irony of cutting forests for renewable energy, and why she says states like hers are 'missing the plot' on climate action: she lives near a forest in southwestern Vermont where a company has proposed an 85-acre project that would export its electricity 100 miles south, to customers in Connecticut. A recent report found that such deforestation in nearby Massachusetts is unnecessary to meet that state's clean energy commitments, and would be better achieved by using already developed land like rooftops and parking lots, instead of farms or forests. Yet the acreage lost to solar energy projects in Massachusetts since 2010 has already released the equivalent of the annual emissions of more than 100,000 cars. Read Judith Schwartz's commentary for Mongabay about this situation here. *Come celebrate Jane Goodall's 90th birthday and Mongabay's 25th anniversary during an event hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco (or virtually) by purchasing tickets at this link. To get $10 off, use promo code C1PARTNER. * Listen to the entire conversation on the Mongabay Newscast wherever you get your podcasts from. If you want to support the podcast, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing. Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet, and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage, mongabay.com, or follow Mongabay on any of the social media platforms for updates. Please send your ideas and feedback to submissions@mongabay.com. Image: An array of ground mounted solar panels. Image by Derek Sutton via Unsplash --- Timecodes (00:00) Introduction (03:09) The Irony of Clearing Forests for Renewable Energy (10:19) AI and Data Centers Increasingly Demand More Energy (16:24) Forests and Heat Mitigation (25:46) Community Awareness and Action (35:10) Credits

23.07.2024

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37 мин.
18.10.2017

Bat calls from the Amazon plus how Indonesia's rainforests became palm plantations

Mongabay editor Phil Jacobson joins the Newscast to discuss a new investigative reporting project in collaboration with The Gecko Project called "Indonesia For Sale" about the land deals — and the powerful politicians and businessmen behind them — that have converted vast areas of Indonesian rainforest to industrial palm oil plantations for personal profit. Then we speak with Adrià López-Baucells, whose acoustic studies of bats in the central Amazon reveal the effects of Amazon forest fragmentation on bat foraging behavior. In this Field Notes segment, López-Baucells plays some of the recordings he captured and also explains how this audio led to some species being found in the central Amazon for the first time. Plus we round up the past two weeks' top news. Please help us improve the Mongabay Newscast by leaving a review on its page at Android, Google Play, iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, or wherever you subscribe to it. And if you like what you hear, please tell a friend about this podcast!

18.10.2017

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46 мин.
20.08.2024

Experts warn bird flu poses 'an existential threat' to biodiversity, and a possible threat to humans

The current clade of H5N1 or bird flu is an "existential threat" to the world's biodiversity, experts say. While it has infected more than 500 bird and mammal species on every continent except Australia, the number of human infections from the current clade (grouping) 2.3.4.4b is still comparatively small. U.S. dairy workers have recently become infected, and the virus could easily mutate to become more virulent, our guest says. Joining the Mongabay Newscast to talk about it is Apoorva Mandavilli, a global health reporter for The New York Times. Mandavilli details what virologists and experts know about the human health risks associated with this latest clade, what nations are doing (or not doing) to help contain its spread, and why. She also details how environmental degradation and industrial agriculture help create the conditions for outbreaks like this to occur. Read Sharon Guynup's reporting on it here. Like this podcast? Please share it with a friend and help spread the word about the Mongabay Newscast. Subscribe to or follow the Mongabay Newscast wherever you listen to podcasts, from Apple to Spotify, and you can also listen to all episodes here on the Mongabay website, or download our free app for Apple and Android devices to gain instant access to our latest episodes and all of our previous ones. Image Credit: Highly pathogenic avian influenza killed thousands of black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) chicks in the Falkland Islands and Islas Malvinas, where two-thirds of the entire population lives. Image © Julia Emerit and Augustin Clessin. Time Codes --- (00:00) Introduction (02:44) The evolution of H5N1 (05:47) Clade 2.3.4.4b (08:21) Challenges in monitoring the spread (11:10) What are the human health risks? (16:34) A spotlight on industrialized animal agriculture (18:26) A vaccination strategy? (20:05) What lessons are we learning from other pandemics? (23:08) The degradation of nature and the frequency of disease outbreaks (25:57) Credits

20.08.2024

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28 мин.
11.03.2022

GigaWhat: Renewable energy, limited land

Let's visualise the sheer expanse of one of India's largest solar parks, the Pavagada Solar Park in Karnataka. An aerial view of the site shows a never-ending sea of glass panels and wires spread across 13,000 acres. That is about 1/4th of the size of Kolkata city. Then there are smaller solar and wind power plants too. Some are even a fraction of the Pavagada solar plant. These power projects that harness unlimited sunlight and wind need another critical resource, a limited one… land. Land is essential to install solar panels, wind turbines and transmission lines. And in a country such as India, land is scarce. Most of the land has a human footprint. It could be private or community farmland. Or it could be the village pasture where cows and sheep graze, or it could be a parcel of land that's considered sacred for centuries and worshiped by communities. In the race to achieve clean energy targets, the pressure falls on such land parcels beyond city boundaries and the people who depend on them. It's well acknowledged by the government, renewable energy companies and all stakeholders in the sector that land availability and acquisition are critical challenges in renewable energy projects. On the other hand, communities risk losing rights and access to land with unfair or no compensation. So how sustainable and just are clean energy projects in their current form? Listen to GigaWhat and explore some of the biggest questions, challenges, and opportunities in India's transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources. Mongabay-India is an online publication dedicated to bringing you stories on science and the environment in India. Read the full Clean energy series on our website Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Subscribe to our newsletter GUESTS: Karthik Ganesan, Fellow and Director of Research Coordination, Council on Energy, Environment and Water Mrinali Karthick, Database and Collaborations Lead, Land Conflict Watch Leo Saldanha, Environment Support Group Sikari Rongpi, farmer, Mikir Bamuni Kawe Ingtipi, resident, Mikir Bamuni LINKS: Land Conflict Watch database The Anatomy of A Solar Land Grab Letter from the solar company CREDITS Host: Mayank Aggarwal Writer and producer: Kartik Chandramouli Additional reporting: Nabarun Guha Audio editor: Tejas Dayananda Sagar Copy editor: Priyanka Shankar Additional voiceover: Saumitra Shinde Podcast production assistant: Ayushi Kothari GigaWhat cover art designer: by Pooja Gupta

11.03.2022

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24 мин.
05.10.2021 · БОНУСНЫЙ КОНТЕНТ

Mongabay Reports: In search of the 'forest ghost,' South America's giant armadillo

Since 2010, the Giant Armadillo Project has been researching the world's largest armadillo, an animal that despite its size and range across almost every country in South America, is one of the world's least recognized animals. These researchers have made key findings, like the fact that their burrows, which can be up to 5 meters long, serve as shelter for at least 70 other species, including birds, reptiles and mammals. The species is categorized as vulnerable to extinction, especially due to the advance of agribusiness. This episode features the popular article, "In search of the 'forest ghost,' South America's cryptic giant armadillo," by Suzana Camargo: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/in-search-of-the-forest-ghost-south-americas-cryptic-giant-armadillo/ Please invite your friends to subscribe to the Mongabay Newscast wherever they get podcasts, or download our free app in the Apple App Store or in the Google Store to have access to our latest episodes at your fingertips. If you enjoy this series, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing, Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay. Photo Credit: Peering inside a giant armadillo burrow, image courtesy of the Giant Armadillo Project.

05.10.2021 · Бонусный контент

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8 мин.
08.11.2022 · БОНУСНЫЙ КОНТЕНТ

Mongabay Reports: Sky Bridges for Sloth Safety

On Costa Rica's Carribbean coast, sloths are losing their habitat to houses and roads, forcing them to cross between forest patches on the ground, making them vulnerable to traffic incidents and dog attacks. However, the Sloth Conservation Foundation, created by British zoologist Rebecca Cliffe, is trying to change that by building rope bridges to allow these famously slow-moving animals to safely cross cleared patches of forest. Read the popular article written by Monica Pelliccia and translated by Maria Angeles Salazar here: Bridges in the sky carry sloths to safety in Costa Rica Please invite your friends to subscribe to the Mongabay Newscast wherever they get podcasts, or download our free app in the Apple App Store or in the Google Store to have access to our latest episodes at your fingertips. If you enjoy this series, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing, Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay. Photo Credit: Baby three-toed sloth hugging a stuffed panda in a Trio Indigenous community. Suriname, 2012. Image by Rhett Butler. Please send feedback to submissions@mongabay.com, and thank you for listening.

08.11.2022 · Бонусный контент

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11 мин.
01.11.2021

Sumatra, Part 7: Omens and optimism for orangutans

The Sumatran orangutan is a lowland species that has adapted to life among this Indonesian island's highlands, as it has lost favored habitat to an array of forces like deforestation, road projects, plus the trafficking of young ones to be sold as pets, so this great ape is increasingly in trouble. On this episode, Mongabay speaks with the founding director of Orangutan Information Centre in North Sumatra, Panut Hadisiswoyo, about these challenges plus some hopeful signs. His center is successfully involving local communities in this work: over 2,400 hectares of rainforest have been replanted by local women since 2008, creating key habitat for the orangutans, which also provides the villagers with useful agroforestry crops, for instance. Related reading from this episode: Deforestation spurred by road project creeps closer to Sumatra wildlife haven Call for prosecution of Indonesian politician who kept baby orangutan as pet 'We are losing': Q&A with The Orangutan Project's Leif Cocks on saving the great ape Please invite your friends to subscribe to Mongabay Explores wherever they get podcasts. We also offer a free app in the Apple App Store and in the Google Store for our sister show, the Mongabay Newscast, providing instant access to our latest episodes and previous ones. If you enjoy our podcast content, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing, Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet and all support helps! Supporting at the $10/month level now delivers access to Insider Content at Mongabay.com, too, please visit the link above for details. See all of our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay. Feedback is always welcome: submissions@mongabay.com.

01.11.2021

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48 мин.
18.04.2017

Eyes in the skies for forests, plus mangrove finches on the rebound

On this episode we speak with Crystal Davis, the director of Global Forest Watch, a near-real-time forest monitoring system. GFW uses data from satellites and elsewhere to inform forest conservation initiatives and reporting worldwide. Davis shares her thoughts on how GFW's being used and the ways Big Data is changing how we approach conservation. We also speak with Francesca Cunninghame, Mangrove Finch Project Leader for the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands. In this Field Notes segment, we'll listen to the call of a mangrove finch, one of the rarest birds in the wild, and hear about how its population seems to be growing, finally. Please share a review of the Mongabay Newscast in the Apple Podcasts app, iTunes store, Stitcher page, or wherever you get your podcasts from! Your feedback will help us improve the show and find new listeners. Simply go to the show's page on whichever platform you get it from, and find the 'review' or 'rate' section. Thanks!

18.04.2017

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36 мин.
07.02.2017

Reporter Sue Branford on journalism from the Amazon that makes a difference

This week we speak with journalist Sue Branford, a regular contributor to Mongabay who has been reporting from Brazil since 1979 for the BBC and others. Branford is one of the writers behind a hard-hitting new series in English and Portuguese that Mongabay.com is producing with The Intercept-Brasil exploring the many impacts of massive dam development projects in Brazil's Tapajos Basin. The reports have already resulted in a federal investigation being opened over official misconduct. Read all the features and watch the powerful videos Sue and her team have produced for the series here. Branford: "Sometimes your reporting has an impact that you don't actually realize...These reports that we're doing for Mongabay, we may discover such an impact...the Brazilian prosecutor is asking for compensation for this indigenous community, but there may also be other impacts that we only discover years later. "We journalists sometimes feel we just go on reporting and don't really change very much, but now and again you come up with cases where you very definitely have changed things, and it makes you feel like, OK, it really was worthwhile." We begin the show by talking about some of the latest top conservation news, from Hong Kong's amazingly resilient (and endangered) tree frogs to Norway's new financial commitment to stem deforestation around the world.

07.02.2017

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41 мин.
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Mongabay Explores is a podcast series diving deep into the world's unique places and species – from areas of amazing natural heritage to environmental challenges and conservation solutions. We've explored the science behind the curiously large diversity of North American Salamanders, to the unique beauty, culture, and conservation challenges of Sumatra. If you want to hear more inspiring conversations with experts, scientists, authors, and activists, or you just want to learn more about our planet, search for Mongabay Explores wherever you get your podcasts.

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Mongabay Podcasts feature our award-winning environmental news coverage in podcast form. You can find our flagship podcast ‘The Mongabay Newscast’ and our episodic, narrative podcast ‘Mongabay Explores,’ and all of our new content on this channel. Updated weekly, you’ll hear the latest environmental and conservation news from experts across the globe as well as deep-dive explorations of our world's unique ecosystems, places, and species.

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GigaWhat: Renewable energy, limited land

Mongabay Reports: In search of the 'forest ghost,' South America's giant armadillo

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