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A seed, ready for planting, at a nursery in Cambodia. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

Updated standards make the case for restoration: ‘We have to create uplift’

John Cannon 1 Jul 2026
Living seawalls panels in Cobh, Ireland

Can coastal infrastructure be engineered to harbor marine life instead of harming it?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Jul 2026
A woman collects water from a pond in Bangladesh, where drinkable water is becoming increasingly scarce due to salt contamination from sea level rise. Image courtesy of Abu Siddique.

Sea level rise is ruining coastal Bangladesh with salty water (commentary)

AL Sharia 1 Jul 2026
Leather bags in Morocco. Image by Tomasz Anusiewicz via Unsplash.

Leaked document shows EU closer to dropping leather from anti-deforestation law

Elisângela Mendonça 1 Jul 2026
Vehicles on a road in Nepal.

Nepal’s new government bets on tax revenue over clean energy push

Rudra Pangeni 1 Jul 2026
A Florida panther.

Wildlife’s unpredictable movements make climate-change planning difficult

Gloria Dickie 1 Jul 2026

Indonesia’s blackouts reignite debate over coal-dependent energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Jul 2026
Researcher Ricardo Marques visiting a forest seedling nursery in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Hylaea.

Secret Amazon species may be new source of ibogaine for addiction treatment

Jenny Gonzales 30 Jun 2026

Foreign nationals attempt to fly to Europe with rare cacti from southern Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jun 2026
A jimbu (Allium przewalskianum) in the Tibetan Plateau.

What’s jimbu? The herb that bolsters an iconic Nepali dish could also help save snow leopards

Bibek Bhandari 30 Jun 2026
An auto rickshaw driver covers his face to protect himself from the pollution in Dhaka

Bangladesh unveils sweeping EV incentives to cut emissions and pollution

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 30 Jun 2026
Nenieveh Glinoga now opens the farm to overnight visitors, something she was previously unable to do because of the lack of potable water and bathroom.

A coastal Philippine farm offers a blueprint for farming with wetlands

Mavic Conde 29 Jun 2026
Four men stand in muddy water holding a brown fishnet full of fish.

Aquatic animal and terrestrial meat trades now almost on par, FAO report finds

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Jun 2026

Human rights abuse allegations continue to rise in the mining sector, report finds

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jun 2026

One mountain lion changed the food web in a California suburb, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jun 2026

As Amazon oil drilling begins, scientists warn of risks to a little-known reef

Suzana Camargo 29 Jun 2026

Telling one guiña from another: It’s all about the angle

Sean Mowbray 29 Jun 2026
A fisher offloads gear in front of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal operated by state-owned energy company PTT Public Company Limited at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Port in Rayong province, Thailand, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Once completed, the Burapa power plant will receive natural gas via pipeline from a terminal at the port. Image by Andy Ball for Mongabay.

Thai farmers fear water woes from planned LNG plant

Gerald Flynn 29 Jun 2026
Mel Sunquist

Mel Sunquist, field biologist and mentor to generations of conservationists

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2026

Women patrol Tanzania’s Pemba waters in a community-led push to protect the sea

David Akana 27 Jun 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026
A fisher at Saude Beach in Kochi. Image by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

India’s fishers confront homegrown ‘ghost gear’ problem

Robert Bociaga 26 Jun 2026
Two images captured by LiDAR at different times and overlaid: one of young tree seedlings (pink), the other of the trees (blue) after two years of growth.

Laser scanning forests may boost carbon estimates, but credibility questions linger

Shradha Triveni 26 Jun 2026
According to Lovin Kobusingye, the women who catch, process and sell fish are still largely missing from conversations about Africa's growing blue economy. Photo: Environmental Justice Foundation.

A trailblazing Ugandan championing women in African fisheries: Q&A with Lovin Kobusingye

David Akana 26 Jun 2026
African baobab (Adansonia digitata), Chikwawa district, Malawi. Image by Rob Palmer via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Three years after Cyclone Freddy, farms remain under water in Malawi’s Elephant Marsh

Charles Mpaka 26 Jun 2026
Mangroves along Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast. Image by Malavika Vyawahare/Mongabay.

Our Ocean Conference in Kenya ends with $6.4 billion in pledges, review of past promises

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jun 2026
A peacock displaying its tail in India. Image by allanlau2000 via Pixabay.

Bangladesh tests a return to the wild for extinct peafowl populations

Abu Siddique 26 Jun 2026

Asia’s shark and ray hotspots remain poorly protected, study finds

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jun 2026
A whitespotted eagle ray in its natural habitat. Understanding the diet of predators is crucial to figure out the resources they depend on and the pressure it puts on prey.

Chewing sounds can help decode an animal’s diet using AI, new study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Jun 2026
African grey parrot is an endangered species native to Central and West Africa

Seizures reveal macabre grey parrot blood trade in Cameroon

Spoorthy Raman 25 Jun 2026
Cocoa producer Giovanne holds a native Amazon species, which is naturally resistant to pests and extreme weather. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto.

Amazon floodplains cocoa offers a climate-resilient and sustainable chocolate

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto 25 Jun 2026
Sarus Crane in Nepal zoo

Nepal’s Central Zoo faces questions over its bird flu response

Deepak Adhikari 25 Jun 2026

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