In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, May 25, 2018

Here are a few stories published this week by other news outlets. Tropical forests Scientists find that plants make up most of the world’s biomass (The Economist, New Scientist). Efforts to increase food security with a green revolution in Africa hit a roadblock in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters). Illegal gold mining could be happening in Ghana’s cocoa plantations (BBC News). A scientific “SWAT” team treks into the Honduran rainforest to catalog the species living there (The New Yorker). Participatory conservation starts with school-age children in Indonesia (Landscape News). Ecologists tally the number of species in a Bolivian national park that could be “the world’s most biodiverse” (The New York Times). Liberia has a new protected area: the Gola Forest National Park (Rainforest Trust). Rangers in Southern Cardamom National Park in Cambodia have found nearly 110,000 snares over the past six years (The Guardian). How biochar could help farmers in the Amazon (Pacific Standard). Other news The U.K.’s Chester zoo has a new baby elephant, which came as a surprise to zookeepers (BBC News). The Los Angeles Times lists the top 10 new species described in the past year (Los Angeles Times). To protect threatened marsupials, crews in Australia have just finished a 44-kilometer (27-mile) fence to keep cats out of a sanctuary (The Guardian). A report details the devastation that could arise from a massive dam on the Mekong River in Cambodia (The Guardian). Limiting the global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit)…

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