Lily Martin

Indigenous leaders killed as narco airstrips cut into their Amazon territories Mongabay and Earth Genome detected 67 clandestine airstrips used for transporting drugs in the Peruvian regions of Ucayali, Huánuco and Pasco. The analysis used artificial intelligence (AI) and satell...

We teamed up with Earth Genome to develop AI tools that detected 67 illegal narco airstrips in the Peruvian rainforests. These airstrips are located near Indigenous communities and in areas where more than a dozen Indigenous leaders have been killed in the past four years. What a great use of AI!

Biochar from banana peels breaks ground in Cameroon YouTube video by Mongabay

Turning banana peels into charcoal can reduce deforestation and produces less smoke while cooking! This video is super inspiring about a local Cameroonian finding solutions for his community and the environment. 🤩

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Easy to catch, yet little known: Meet the Chinese mountain cat In 2018, Han Xue-song, then a researcher with the Beijing-based Shan Shui Conservation Center, was in the Sanjiangyuan region on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, surveying black-necked cranes (Grus nigricol...

As a cat enthusiast, I'm super excited to learn about the Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti), China’s only endemic felid, and one of the least-known small cats in the world. We didn't even know where it lived until 2004 and didn't get the first pictures until 2007.

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The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say It’s been clear for some time: We’re in the midst of a rapidly escalating global plastics crisis. More than 11 billion metric tons of virgin plastics were produced worldwide from 1950 to 2022. And the...

I had no idea 71% of all plastics ever made was produced in the 21st century! We are in the plastic century!

Negotiations to determine plastics treaty language will begin at a UN summit in Busan, Korea, running Nov. 25 – Dec. 1

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