Mongabay Newscast

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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.

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The Mekong, Earth’s most climate-sensitive river delta, plus conservation in conflict zones

On this episode of the Newscast, Mongabay’s Indonesia-based editor Phil Jacobson makes an in-studio appearance to talk about a new series launched this week focusing on the Mekong Delta. No other delta region in the world is more threatened by climate change than the Mekong Delta, which is why the first installment of the series, asks: “ Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta? ” Three more articles by Mongabay correspondent David Brown, who traveled extensively in Vietnam to report these stor...

Oct 04, 2016•28 min•Ep. 2

Mongabay Newscast #1: Panama's Barro Blanco Dam

For Mongabay Newscast #1, host Mike Gaworecki rounds up the week in top conservation news from around the world and then speaks with Mongabay.com editor Rebecca Kessler about the environmental impacts of the Barro Blanco Dam in Panama on indigenous communities, biodiversity, sacred sites, and the wider watershed. Mongabay has been covering this 28 MW hydro project for three years. The indigenous Ngäbe and Buglé indigenous groups maintain that they were not properly consulted about the project, y...

Sep 16, 2016•20 min•Ep. 1

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