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Municipal Waste:
🎵 Demoralizer
#MunicipalWaste
https://municipal-waste.bandcamp.com/track/demoralizer-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4P8W58gIcJD7hhqoX2v0hg

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/can-two-amazons-survive-invisible-e-waste-is-poisoning-the-world/

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world
“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s seeking to increase recycling in the electronics industry. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge we are unable to manage it. Most of our e-waste ends up in city centres. Informal workers extract what they […]

New underwater acoustic camera identifies individual fish sounds, helping track threatened species
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-underwater-acoustic-camera-identifies-individual-fish-sounds-helping-track-threatened-species/

"5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025"
#Animals
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/5-unexpecte…

5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025
Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. Here are five such examples that Mongabay reported on in 2025: Massive fish aggregation seen climbing waterfalls in Brazil For the first time, scientists observed a “massive […]

🦫 California learns from its beaver reintroductions
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/california-learns-from-its-beaver-reintroductions/

California learns from its beaver reintroductions
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Tásmam Koyóm, a high Sierra meadow in California, U.S. returned to the Mountain Maidu people in 2019, is once again wet where once it had been dry. Rivulets now snake through hip-high grasses and willow thickets, feeding a […]

The Mongabay news source checks out. The story about the salamanders checks out.
But I'd like to know about the nuns and their cough syrup made with salamanders. Going to have to follow up on this one!
#Nature #Ecology #Science

Ethanol plant spills harmful wastewater into Philippine marine reserve https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/ethanol-plant-spills-harmful-wastewater-into-philippine-marine-reserve/

Ethanol plant spills harmful wastewater into Philippine marine reserve
A chemical spill from an ethanol distillery has put one of the Philippines’ largest marine protected areas at risk. A wall retaining the wastewater pond of an ethanol distillery plant collapsed on Oct. 24, causing about 255,000 cubic meters (67 million gallons) of wastewater to flow into Bais Bay in the central Philippines, according to […]

"Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation"
#Trees #Environment #Deforestation

Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Interpol and partners launched a global law enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at dismantling criminal networks behind illegal logging, timber trafficking and gold mining, which drive large-scale deforestation and generate billions in illicit profits each year. The effort announced ahead of the U.N. COP30 climate summit in Brazil will focus mainly on tropical forests […]

More than 1,400 dead across Asia after ‘rare’ cyclone & typhoon converge https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/more-than-1400-dead-across-asia-after-rare-cyclone-typhoons-converge/

More than 1,400 dead across Asia after ‘rare’ cyclone & typhoon converge
At least 1,400 people have died as a result of flooding and landslides across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, with many more still missing. The unusual combination of a tropical typhoon and two tropical cyclones is behind the mounting humanitarian disaster. Scientists and meteorologists note that Cyclone Senyar formed just north of the equator, […]

North Atlantic right whale birth rate is up but extinction still looms North Atlantic right whale birth rate is up but extinction still looms https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/north-atlantic-right-whale-birth-rat…

North Atlantic right whale birth rate is up but extinction still looms
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction. The North Atlantic right whale’s population numbers an estimated 384 animals and is slowly rising after several years of […]