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In October, Mongabay looked into the human consumption, or overconsumption, of two food industry products — chocolate and fish-feed. While cocoa, soy, dairy products and palm oil are sourced from tropical landscapes in Africa, South America and Asia to make chocolates, krill from the Antarctic are being used excessively in the fish-feed industry. Watch how […]
Is simply having fewer children really a viable solution to the climate crisis? Mongabay dove into research and talked with experts to find the answer to the question more and more people are asking now. The latest episodes of Mongabay’s Problem Solved explains how having, or not having, more children can effect the environment and […]
Agriculture and food production across the world share an intricate relationship with both their immediate environment and larger factors like climate change. In August, Mongabay released videos about food that’s become invasive and food sources affected by outside elements, among other environmental news. While invasive and disruptive, but also edible and tasty, blue crabs are […]
Taiwanese filmmaker Chris Chang moved to Berkeley, California, in August 2021, when the state was already experiencing a deep environmental crisis. In 2020,
Mongabay looked into three inspiring landscape restoration efforts in three different countries. In Lebanon, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, residents have taken things into their own hands and have started restoration projects. Lebanon’s Shouf Biosphere Reserve, Indonesia’s Womangrove Collective, and Kinandu village in DRC are experiments and projects where local communities are working […]