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News and inspiration from nature’s frontline, featuring inspiring guests and deeper analysis of the global environmental issues explored every day by the Mongabay.com team, from climate change to biodiversity, tropical ecology, wildlife, and more. The show airs every other week.

Episode Date
2024 Goldman Prize-winner Murrawah Johnson on a landmark victory over a giant Australian coal mine
Apr 29, 2024
Energy transition minerals: questions, consent and costs are key
Apr 23, 2024
The high costs of resource-based conflicts for people & planet
Apr 16, 2024
How young activists navigate a hostile climate with honest conversations
Apr 09, 2024
Jane Goodall on turning 90 and building empathy for nature
Apr 02, 2024
Forest elephants, the endangered "gardeners" of the Congo Rainforest
Mar 26, 2024
Show us the money: Are giant pledges by major conservation funders effective?
Mar 19, 2024
Cultural survival through reclaiming language and land, with author Jay Griffiths
Mar 12, 2024
Restoring an Irish rainforest by simply leaving nature alone
Feb 27, 2024
Exploring a jewel of the Coral Triangle
Feb 20, 2024
Is media objectivity possible during our environmental crisis?
Feb 13, 2024
The many social and ecological benefits of a 'degrowth' world
Jan 30, 2024
Is "Not the End of the World" author's 'techno-realism' enough to solve our ecological problems?
Jan 16, 2024
When independent journalism exposes crimes against people and planet
Jan 09, 2024
Wildlife trafficking should be covered as a crime story
Dec 19, 2023
Reversing biodiversity loss requires ecological restoration
Dec 12, 2023
How the Junglekeepers protect 55,000 acres of the Peruvian Amazon
Dec 05, 2023
How the UN climate Loss & Damage Fund got lost & damaged
Nov 28, 2023
Deforestation decline in the Amazon and other positive news
Nov 21, 2023
Corals, kelp and creative conservation in Australia
Oct 24, 2023
Debunking the UN's climate neutrality claims
Oct 10, 2023
Ken Burns on 'The American Buffalo,' his latest documentary focusing on the iconic species
Oct 03, 2023
Why some bears thrive and others barely survive
Sep 27, 2023
Can 'road ecology' save millions of animals?
Sep 19, 2023
Profitability and sustainability go together, Patagonia's advocacy director says
Sep 05, 2023
Ecuadorian environmentalists win historic vote for Yasuní National Park
Aug 22, 2023
Protecting the Amazon requires fresh thinking
Aug 08, 2023
XPRIZE-Rainforest finalists for $10m conservation tech award announced
Jul 25, 2023
Biological field stations are key to conservation but often 'invisible'
Jul 11, 2023
Big problems and potential for great ape conservation
Jul 04, 2023
Can the boom in psychedelics boost Amazon conservation?
Jun 20, 2023
The Boom: Amy Westervelt examines Guyana's massive oil project on 'Drilled'
Jun 13, 2023
Mongabay Reports: Solutions abound for staying within this planetary boundary
Jun 06, 2023
Can we right the wrongs of 'fortress conservation?'
May 30, 2023
Climate change is no joke for Australians
May 23, 2023
Mongabay Reports: Deep sea discovery shocks and delights scientists
May 17, 2023
The world's second-largest rainforest is at a turning point
May 02, 2023
Guyana gets Drilled: Journalist Amy Westervelt on the latest oil boom
Apr 18, 2023
Mongabay Reports: Breeding new hope for African penguins at De Hoop Nature Reserve
Apr 11, 2023
Conservation technology just keeps on growing
Apr 03, 2023
Mongabay Reports: What's in the new U.N. High Seas treaty?
Mar 27, 2023
Journalist Tom Philpott on how agriculture impacts the environment & agroecology alternatives
Mar 21, 2023
Mongabay Reports: Monarchs make a comeback
Mar 13, 2023
Indigenous ecological knowledge: National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yuyan talks TEK
Mar 06, 2023
Mongabay Reports: Can you fund reforestation by cutting trees down?
Feb 27, 2023
Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Kolbert on humanity's 'solution problem'
Feb 21, 2023
Mongabay Reports: Cheetahs bring vultures back from the brink in Malawi
Feb 14, 2023
Epic struggle for Ecuador's biodiversity is having success
Feb 08, 2023
Mongabay Reports: Protecting forests on a budget? Here's how.
Jan 31, 2023
Are botanists disappearing just when we need them the most?
Jan 24, 2023
Mongabay Reports: Amazon's tallest tree threatened by deforestation
Jan 16, 2023
UN Biodiversity Conference an 'important step' toward conserving nature
Jan 11, 2023
Mongabay Reports: Anteaters lead the way for species reintroductions
Jan 02, 2023
A bittersweet bioacoustics bonanza
Dec 27, 2022
Into the Wasteland, 3: Buried in Europe's Recycling
Dec 20, 2022
Into the Wasteland, 2: The New Narcotics
Dec 13, 2022
Into the Wasteland: The true crime of the UK's waste mountain
Dec 06, 2022
Finned: A tale of illegal fishing and the fate of Pacific sharks
Dec 01, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Lebanon's inspiring restoration success
Nov 22, 2022
An escape into soundscapes
Nov 16, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Sky Bridges for Sloth Safety
Nov 08, 2022
How the Indigenous Shuar regained their ancestral forest
Nov 02, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Spectacular fish is the first named by a Maldivian scientist
Oct 25, 2022
Science that saves the biodiversity of free-flowing rivers
Oct 19, 2022
Mongabay Reports: A "game changing" ecological restoration playbook
Oct 11, 2022
Bottom trawling strips the sea of life, but activism is slowing the damage
Oct 04, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Agroforestry is climate-positive and profitable, investors say
Sep 27, 2022
Could Brazil's election decide the fate of the Amazon?
Sep 20, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Spies in the sky, albatrosses alert authorities to illegal fishing
Sep 13, 2022
Sumatran elephants' future may hinge on their 'personhood'
Sep 06, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Chocolate frog, anyone?
Aug 30, 2022
Top wildlife photography requires patience, ethics, and kindness
Aug 23, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Can bugs take a bite out of climate change?
Aug 16, 2022
Bitcoin, blockchain, and burgeoning energy use
Aug 09, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Chimpanzee tool innovation reveals cultural evolution
Aug 02, 2022
Mexico's Maya Train chugs forward, but at what cost?
Jul 26, 2022
Mongabay Reports: New Guinea has the most plant species of any island
Jul 19, 2022
'Water always wins' but 'slow' solutions to water scarcity are growing in popularity
Jul 12, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Will the vaquita vanish?
Jul 05, 2022
How marine conservation benefits by blending Indigenous knowledge and western science
Jun 28, 2022
Mongabay Reports: 'Lost' Amazonian cities reveal sustainability secrets
Jun 22, 2022
New whale calls and dolphin behaviors discovered with bioacoustics
Jun 15, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Palm oil investigation with BBC and Gecko Project exposes corporate theft from communities
Jun 07, 2022
Indigenous and ingenious aquaculture from the distant past to today
Jun 01, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Can celebrities ‘rewrite extinction’?
May 25, 2022
Vandana Shiva on the agroecology solution for climate change, the biodiversity crisis, and hunger
May 18, 2022
Mongabay Explores: She's here! A Sumatran rhino is born
May 11, 2022
Wonder on wings: the fierce nature and enduring beauty of birds
May 04, 2022
Mongabay Explores New Guinea: Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut
Apr 27, 2022
Convention on Biological Diversity: progress, hope and hard work ahead
Apr 20, 2022
Mongabay Explores New Guinea: Who is destroying these rainforests? The Tanah Merah mystery.
Apr 13, 2022
Outstanding in the field: researchers head out for a new season
Apr 06, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Degraded forests still provide immense value
Mar 30, 2022
Indigenous peoples: the world's top conservationists
Mar 23, 2022
Mongabay Explores New Guinea: 'Ghosts of the rainforest'
Mar 16, 2022
Are 'nature based solutions' the best fix for climate change?
Mar 09, 2022
Mongabay Explores New Guinea: A long and winding road
Mar 02, 2022
How the sounds of African wildlife aid their conservation
Feb 23, 2022
Mongabay Explores New Guinea: Protecting paradise
Feb 16, 2022
Kelp, condors and Indigenous conservation
Feb 09, 2022
Mongabay Explores New Guinea: 'Carbon cowboys' and illegal logging
Feb 01, 2022
The 411 on forests and reforestation for 2022
Jan 26, 2022
Mongabay Reports: Mt. Pinatubo's 'eruption-proof' mouse
Jan 18, 2022
Who will lead the conservation movement now?
Jan 12, 2022
Mongabay Explores New Guinea: Protecting unparalleled biodiversity
Jan 05, 2022
In search of wild spectacles and river journeys with Janisse Ray and Jordan Salama
Dec 21, 2021
What do two giant land deals mean for the future of Southeast Asia's forests?
Dec 09, 2021
Mongabay Reports: Why chimp GIFs aren't funny
Nov 30, 2021
Bill McKibben on climate action, grief and 'radical joy' after COP26 climate summit
Nov 23, 2021
Mongabay Reports: Earth Defenders Toolkit strengthens Indigenous voices
Nov 17, 2021
Let it grow: Natural forest regeneration's amazing reforestation power
Nov 10, 2021
Mongabay Reports: Lost chameleon reappears
Nov 03, 2021
Indigenous bioacoustics: listening to the land for conservation and tradition
Oct 27, 2021
Mongabay Reports: New species of North America's rare spotted skunks discovered
Oct 19, 2021
Extracted, exported and forgotten: the global race for resources and the DRC
Oct 14, 2021
Mongabay Reports: In search of the ‘forest ghost,’ South America’s giant armadillo
Oct 05, 2021
The key role of Indigenous rights for the future of biodiversity conservation
Sep 29, 2021
Mongabay Reports: As Gabon gets paid to conserve its forests, will others follow?
Sep 21, 2021
Are tuna recovering well, like reports say? It's complicated.
Sep 15, 2021
Mongabay Reports: Can climate-friendly agroforestry transform farming in the U.S. Midwest?
Sep 08, 2021
What makes conservation projects succeed, or not?
Sep 01, 2021
Mongabay Reports: ‘Extinction denial’ is the latest anti-science conspiracy theory
Aug 19, 2021
What can seashells tell us about the oceans' health?
Aug 10, 2021
Optimism for elephants fuels effective Indigenous conservation effort
Jul 28, 2021
Mongabay Reports: Two new Javan rhino calves spotted in the species’ last holdout
Jul 22, 2021
Reforestation done right, from Haiti to Honduras and Ho Chi Minh City
Jul 14, 2021
Reconnecting kids and ourselves to the planet with author Richard Louv
Jun 30, 2021
Mongabay Reports: Camera traps in trees reveal a richness of species in Rwandan park
Jun 24, 2021
With billion dollar boost, bioacoustics is set to soar
Jun 16, 2021
Can Biden's 30x30 plan put the U.S. back on a positive conservation track?
Jun 03, 2021
Mongabay Reports: How many trees are on the Earth?
May 26, 2021
Reforestation vs deforestation: Forest losses and gains this past year
May 20, 2021
Two tunas and a tale of managed extinction
Apr 23, 2021
As humanity exceeds key 'planetary boundaries' many solutions are on the horizon, too
Apr 08, 2021
New investigation in the Amazon documents impact of palm oil plantations on Indigenous communities
Mar 24, 2021
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Solutions and optimism that drive conservation
Mar 17, 2021
Can agroecology feed the world?
Mar 10, 2021
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Restoration for peat's sake
Mar 03, 2021
Rewilding, restoration, and real hope for the future
Feb 24, 2021
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: where are the rhinos?
Feb 17, 2021
Biomass and hydropower: climate solutions or delusions?
Feb 10, 2021
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Omens and optimism for orangutans
Feb 02, 2021
Agroforestry: the most climate-friendly and biodiversity-positive agriculture technique is growing
Jan 27, 2021
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Elephants and eternity
Jan 21, 2021
What's in store for the world's forests in 2021?
Jan 13, 2021
New conservation tech to clean up mining sector
Dec 23, 2020
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Tiger on the highway
Dec 16, 2020
Cerrado solutions: Creative conservation for Brazil's massive savanna
Dec 09, 2020
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Will the world's newest great ape species face a dammed future?
Dec 03, 2020
Land rights, and wrongs: How Indigenous and local communities are fighting to gain title to their territories
Nov 25, 2020
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Deforestation demystified
Nov 18, 2020
Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar
Nov 11, 2020
Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Saving the singing rhino
Nov 05, 2020
Amazon defenders, especially women, are set to get new protections
Oct 28, 2020
Mongabay Explores Sumatra, Episode 1: A land like no other
Oct 22, 2020
Gorilla Radio: innovation in conservation of super rare great apes
Oct 14, 2020
Can the oceans support a renewable energy transition?
Sep 30, 2020
Great ape forest gardeners of Africa benefit from big conservation victory
Sep 16, 2020
In the Amazon, women are key to forest conservation
Sep 02, 2020
Singing cetaceans: New whale & dolphin recordings intrigue researchers
Aug 19, 2020
From parks to payments, which conservation methods work best?
Aug 04, 2020
Mongabay Explores the Great Salamander Pandemic, Part 6: Hellbenders and super spreaders
Jul 29, 2020
Finding nature in the city
Jul 22, 2020
Mongabay Explores the Great Salamander Pandemic, Part 5: Policy possibilities?
Jul 15, 2020
Does trophy hunting support or hurt conservation? Years after Cecil the Lion was killed, debate continues
Jul 08, 2020
Mongabay Explores the Great Salamander Pandemic, Part 4: The 'Bsal battalion'
Jul 01, 2020
Animals have culture, too, and for some it's crucial to their survival and conservation
Jun 23, 2020
Mongabay Explores the Great Salamander Pandemic, Part 3: On the Hunt
Jun 11, 2020
Conservation leaders create community & opportunity amid current crises of violence and viruses
Jun 10, 2020
Mongabay Explores the Great Salamander Pandemic, Part 2: Great diversity and danger
Jun 03, 2020
How listening to elephants can help conserve rainforests
May 27, 2020
Mongabay Explores the Great Salamander Pandemic, Part 1: Are we ready?
May 20, 2020
Forest fire season 2020: what will it look like and what can we do?
May 13, 2020
How to photograph wildlife ethically and why that’s so necessary
Apr 28, 2020
Inspiration for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day amid a global pandemic
Apr 14, 2020
The link between pandemics and the destruction of nature, with John Vidal
Mar 31, 2020
Songs and sounds of Bering Sea whales and seals reveal a story of change
Mar 17, 2020
New technologies deliver cutting edge conservation, discussion with Shah Selbe
Mar 05, 2020
Conservation is a growth industry for Africa, Fred Swaniker says
Feb 19, 2020
Mongabay Newscast trailer
Feb 10, 2020
Galina Angarova on the indigenous relationship to land, conservation, and the sacred feminine
Feb 05, 2020
How the sweet sounds of tropical katydids can benefit rainforest conservation
Jan 22, 2020
Top conservation photographer Ami Vitale discusses rhinos, pandas, hope and more
Jan 07, 2020
Best animal calls and songs of 2019
Dec 23, 2019
Cleared for coca: Chris Fagan on his new investigation from Peru's rainforest
Dec 12, 2019
Haunting gibbons' songs could aid their conservation
Nov 26, 2019
All zoos should put themselves out of business, Damian Aspinall argues
Nov 13, 2019
Buzzfeed's Katie Baker details their explosive investigation of WWF
Oct 29, 2019
Deep sea diva: A dive to the ocean floor with biologist Diva Amon
Oct 16, 2019
Hitting the highway in Borneo to assess diversity and development
Oct 01, 2019
Are humpback whale groups sharing their songs?
Sep 12, 2019
"I'm excited!" Climate action star Rev Yearwood on the UN, youth and women's leadership & more
Sep 04, 2019
Return of the amazing superb lyrebird
Aug 13, 2019
Baltimore, urban rats, and environmental justice
Aug 06, 2019
Celebrated author David Quammen on inspiring ecological restoration, evolutionary science, and more
Jul 23, 2019
Right whales discovered singing for the first time: new recordings
Jul 09, 2019
New CITES boss discusses reining in online wildlife trafficking, the next COP, and more
Jun 25, 2019
Zoos are more key to conservation than ever, Bronx Zoo director says
Jun 12, 2019
What can talkative river dolphins teach us about their marine relatives?
May 28, 2019
How to discover an untouched rainforest
May 14, 2019
Paying for healthcare with a healthy rainforest
Apr 30, 2019
Unusual tool-using chimp culture discovered in the Congo
Apr 16, 2019
Sloths' amazing survival skills create a challenge for their survival
Apr 02, 2019
Studying secretive humpback dolphins through sound
Mar 19, 2019
Amazon explorer Scott Wallace: Uncontacted indigenous peoples are a true treasure
Mar 05, 2019
How sound can save a rare bird with an AI assist
Feb 20, 2019
Good news from Mexico monarch reserve despite looming threats
Feb 05, 2019
We need nature more than nature needs us: IUCN's Inger Andersen
Jan 23, 2019
Sound can save forests and major rainforest trends to watch with Mongabay's founder
Jan 08, 2019
How 96 rare sea turtle hatchlings survived a NY City summer
Dec 11, 2018
Bill McKibben is down on COPs but bullish on climate action
Nov 27, 2018
E.O. Wilson discusses Half-Earth and conservation solutions
Nov 13, 2018
Chasing penguins, a dispatch from Antarctica
Oct 30, 2018
Racing to save the world's amazing frogs
Oct 18, 2018
Bats and Ebola: studying fruit bats to prevent future outbreaks
Oct 02, 2018
Getting social for science and conservation
Sep 18, 2018
'Godfather of biodiversity' says it's time to manage Earth as a whole system
Sep 05, 2018
The amazing song skills of the superb lyrebird
Aug 21, 2018
Beavers, our brilliant ecosystem builders
Aug 07, 2018
How dark money and shadow companies deforest Indonesia and derail its democracy
Jul 24, 2018
How to use drones without stressing wildlife
Jul 10, 2018
Indigenous knowledge and climate science
Jun 26, 2018
What can soundscapes tell us about animals and their home landscapes?
Jun 12, 2018
Mexico’s community forests find sustainability by including women and youths
May 30, 2018
Renowned marine biologist Sylvia Earle on acting for the oceans
May 15, 2018
Seabird secrets revealed by bioacoustics in New Zealand
Apr 30, 2018
Exploring Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado region and the impacts of agriculture
Apr 17, 2018
Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine on stopping illegal rainforest wood from becoming guitars
Apr 03, 2018
Exploring our deep connection to water, plus the sounds of Sandhill crane migration
Mar 20, 2018
How effective is environmental restoration?
Mar 06, 2018
Exploring the minds and inner lives of wild animals
Feb 19, 2018
New eyes in the sky monitor Earth systems like never before
Feb 06, 2018
David Suzuki on why indigenous knowledge is critical for humanity's survival
Jan 23, 2018
Climate lessons from indigenous peoples, plus the mysterious night parrot
Jan 09, 2018
Massive Amazonian medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and Madagascar conservation efforts examined
Dec 12, 2017
Margaret Atwood talks about birds, ecology, and her graphic novel series
Nov 28, 2017
Jane Goodall on being proven right that animals have personalities, and more
Nov 15, 2017
Gas drilling vs wildlife in Peruvian Amazon and a Goldman Prize winner on mercury contamination
Nov 01, 2017
Bat calls from the Amazon plus how Indonesia's rainforests became palm plantations
Oct 18, 2017
Javan rhino calls and an analysis of 'green' forest certification
Oct 03, 2017
Legendary musician Bruce Cockburn on music, activism, and hope
Sep 19, 2017
From AI to remote sensing, tech and conservation a powerful combo
Sep 06, 2017
New Madagascar mine worries locals and lemurs; plus, banjo frogs and whistling ducks in Australia
Aug 22, 2017
Speaking from the heart on climate change with Katherine Hayhoe
Aug 08, 2017
Taiwan's natural soundscapes and a critique of the global hydropower building boom
Jul 25, 2017
A wildlife DJ and a children’s book author inspiring the next generation of conservationists
Jul 12, 2017
Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem under threat, plus tracking bird movement in Puerto Rico
Jun 27, 2017
Amazon Reef discovery discussed plus environmental journalism hits milestone in Latin America
Jun 13, 2017
Why forests, why now? How tropical forests can survive and thrive
May 31, 2017
Singing seals and a discussion of the “infrastructure tsunami” sweeping the planet
May 17, 2017
Deep dive into marine wildlife study with bioacoustics
May 03, 2017
Eyes in the skies for forests, plus mangrove finches on the rebound
Apr 18, 2017
Tech solutions for conservation and a chat with Harvard researchers
Apr 04, 2017
Musician Paul Simon discusses his new environmental concert tour
Mar 21, 2017
Almost Famous Animals - plus the songs of galagos
Mar 07, 2017
Author and climate historian Naomi Oreskes on why scientists should speak out
Feb 21, 2017
Reporter Sue Branford on journalism from the Amazon that makes a difference
Feb 07, 2017
E.O. Wilson talks about global biodiversity, Trump, Half-Earth, and hope
Jan 24, 2017
Yaks, curassows, and other cool species overlooked by conservation efforts
Jan 10, 2017
Top new species discoveries of 2016, and how fig trees can save rainforests
Dec 27, 2016
Undiscovered Sumatran rhinos in the wilds of Malaysia? Maybe, or maybe not.
Dec 13, 2016
Carl Safina discusses marine conservation under a Trump administration, and Rhett Butler shares the origins of Mongabay
Nov 29, 2016
Report from the Climate Talks in Marrakesh and Salamander Conservation in Michoacan, Mexico
Nov 15, 2016
Andrea Crosta of Elephant Action League on “The Ivory Game” and orangutans under threat in Indonesia
Nov 01, 2016
Crucial conservation votes at CITES and the future of socio-ecological research
Oct 18, 2016
The Mekong, Earth’s most climate-sensitive river delta, plus conservation in conflict zones
Oct 04, 2016
Mongabay Newscast #1: Panama's Barro Blanco Dam
Sep 16, 2016