Mongabay News on MSN

After Cyclone Senyar, Indonesia probes whether development amplified scale of disaster

Best known as the home of the world’s rarest great ape, the mountainous Batang Toru forest landscape on the island of Sumatra ...
Mongabay News on MSN

Cultural changes shift an Indigenous community’s relationship with the Amazon forest

As a baby, Elisa Fernández Sánchez’ mother would place her into the bow of the canoe and glide across the murky waters of the ...
Ancient Origins

LiDAR Unveils Hidden Landscape of Lost Pre-Hispanic Culture in Ecuador

Cutting-edge LiDAR technology has revealed an astonishing secret concealed beneath the dense jungle canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó: hundreds of pre-Hispanic structures that dramatically expand our ...
Radio Prague International

From Prague to Australia: the lost photographs of Jiří Viktor Daneš, Czechoslovakia’s first consul down under

Jiří Viktor Daneš was Czechoslovakia’s first consul to Australia. His restored photos are now in a new book.  We spoke with ...
HPPR

The Arkansas River’s Big Timbers region reflects a complex history of Western expansion, Indigenous displacement

Cottonwoods dot the landscape near the Arkansas River on the Rogers family farm near Lamar in the area of Prowers County once ...