In 2023, Mongabay launched the fourth season of its serial podcast, “Mongabay Explores,” highlighting the Congo Basin. The six-part series takes a close look at the second-largest rainforest in the world, the unique biodiversity it contains, and the social and ecological challenges it faces. 1. Mongabay Explores the Congo Basin: The ‘heart of the world’ […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) produces around 70% of the global supply of cobalt and it is also Africa’s leading producer of copper. Despite the billions of dollars in cobalt transactions that occur each year in the country, very little of this revenue improves the lives of Congolese citizens, podcast guest Christian-Géraud Neema Byamungu, […]
Finalizing the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) is taking longer than expected and yet another round of negotiations – this time in Nairobi, Kenya – ended without much progress, say members of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB). Indigenous leaders part of the fourth working group meeting are disappointed that the inclusion of language […]
World leaders promised to protect Earth’s forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit Tuesday part of a flurry of deals intended to avert catastrophic global warming. Britain hailed the commitment by over 100 countries to end deforestation in the coming decade as the first […]