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 i...
18 Apr 201735min
Tech solutions for conservation and a chat with Harvard researchers
During this episode we speak with Sue Palminteri, editor of Mongabay's WildTech site which highlights high- and low-tech solutions to challenges in conservation. She shares with us some of the most in...
4 Apr 201752min
Musician Paul Simon discusses his new environmental concert tour
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we're thrilled to feature a conversation with the one and only Paul Simon, who's just announced a tour in support of the environment. The 12-time Grammy-winni...
21 Mar 201754min
Almost Famous Animals - plus the songs of galagos
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we welcome contributing editor Glenn Scherer to the program, who is responsible for Mongabay's "Almost Famous Animals" series, which just wrapped up its secon...
7 Mar 201744min
Author and climate historian Naomi Oreskes on why scientists should speak out
With so much uncertainty around the new Trump Administration's environmental priorities, especially its energy and climate policies, this episode is dedicated to trying to answer some of the biggest q...
21 Feb 201758min
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-hi...
7 Feb 201740min
E.O. Wilson talks about global biodiversity, Trump, Half-Earth, and hope
On this episode, we feature excerpts from a conversation with author and biologist E.O. Wilson, one of the greatest scientists of the last 100 years, who was recently interviewed by Mongabay senior c...
24 Jan 201740min
Yaks, curassows, and other cool species overlooked by conservation efforts
This week we're joined by Joel Berger, a professor at Colorado State University and a senior scientist with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, who recently wrote a commentary for Mongab...
10 Jan 201741min
