Lessons from 30 years of successfully fending off mines in an Ecuadorian cloud forest
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 seeking to extract its large copper deposits. He an...
10 Kesä 202538min
Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Ministry for the Future' has lessons for the present
Five years since Kim Stanley Robinson's groundbreaking climate fiction novel, The Ministry for the Future, hit The New York Times bestseller list, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning writer shares refle...
3 Kesä 202555min
Why protected Congo rainforests look 'like a war zone'
Nearly half of the Republic of Congo's dense rainforests are protected under the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) framework to receive climate finance payments, but...
20 Touko 202530min
Inspiring action for the ocean wins top environmental prize for ex-engineer
Carlos Mallo Molina has been awarded the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for protecting the marine biodiversity of Tenerife, the most populated of the Canary Islands. On this episode of Mongabay's po...
13 Touko 202525min
'De-extinction' is misleading and dangerous, ecologist says
A biotech company in the United States made headlines last month by revealing photos of genetically modified gray wolves, calling them "dire wolves," a species that hasn't existed for more than 10,000...
6 Touko 202542min
How the sounds of whales guide conservation efforts
Biological oceanographer John Ryan joins Mongabay's podcast to discuss his team's multiyear study that examined vocalizations of baleen whales, including blue (Balaenoptera musculus), humpback (Megapt...
29 Huhti 202538min
How a prize-winning project brought saiga antelope back from the brink
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 enormous Golden Steppe. Since then, the Altyn Dala Cons...
15 Huhti 202531min
The impact-driven success of Mongabay's nonprofit news model
Media outlets are downsizing newsrooms and the audience for traditional news is in decline, but Mongabay continues to grow thanks to its impact-driven, nonprofit model. Mongabay's director of philanth...
8 Huhti 202537min
