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Here’s what’s driving deforestation in South America

Mike Gaworecki 31 May 2016

New Rio Olympic golf course harmed environment, say critics

(Paloma Savedra contributed to this story), Carolina Torres 31 May 2016

SE Asia’s damaged peat swamps could release 8.7 gigatons of CO2

Loren Bell 31 May 2016

Reestablishing a wild population of American burying beetles

Mike Gaworecki 30 May 2016

Study suggests trees sleep at night

Mike Gaworecki 30 May 2016

New Cambodian protected forest offers hope for endangered wildlife

Daniel Pye 27 May 2016

Scientists puzzled by slowing of Atlantic conveyor belt, warn of abrupt climate change

Mike Gaworecki 27 May 2016

The key to tropical conservation: scrap big projects, invest in people

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2016

Indonesia’s birds being wiped out by pet trade

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2016

Video: Critically Endangered monkey ‘chatters’ for camera

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2016

Empowering smartphone users to bear witness to illegal wildlife trade

Julia John 26 May 2016

Norway commits to zero deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 26 May 2016

Thousands of Southeast Asian newts being collected from the wild for pet trade

Shreya Dasgupta 26 May 2016

Peruvian gov’t affirms illegal plantation activity in Amazon rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 May 2016

An improbable future for Nicaragua’s inter-oceanic canal

Adam Stein, Hector Castaneda, Karen Masters 25 May 2016

The Borneo rainbow toad has been missing for 87 years — until now

Mike Gaworecki 25 May 2016

Zika: from obscure virus to global health emergency

Jenny Gonzales 25 May 2016
Elephant in South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The results are in: Winners of the Mongabay internship awards

Brittany Stewart 25 May 2016
The Critically Endangered Blue-eyed Ground-dove © Rafael Bessa

First-ever photos of long-lost blue-eyed bird from Brazil

Mongabay.com 24 May 2016

Epilogue: Conservation still divided, looking for a way forward

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2016

The assassinations of Mother Nature’s guardians (commentary)

Fred Bercovitch 24 May 2016

World’s most expensive coffee often produced from caged, abused civets, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 24 May 2016

Five technologies help thwart illegal logging by tracing wood’s origin

Emily Kaldjian, Loretta Cheung, Ruth Nogueron 23 May 2016

Saving reef fish from the impacts of a hit film

Mike Gaworecki 23 May 2016

Dams flood 36,000 hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2016

Climate negotiators focus on carbon credits, underplay human rights

Justin Catanoso 23 May 2016

Indonesia’s forestry ministry follows through on palm oil permit freeze

Mongabay.com 23 May 2016

One-third of North America’s birds at risk of extinction, report says

Shreya Dasgupta 23 May 2016
Red-eyed tree frog. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The top 10 most biodiverse countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2016

Reducing human-wildlife conflict in the blink of a light

Sammi Dowdell and Sue Palminteri 20 May 2016

Indigenous territories occupy 40 percent of protected land and marine areas in Central America

Mike Gaworecki 20 May 2016

Shell spills 88,200 gallons of oil into Gulf of Mexico

Shreya Dasgupta 20 May 2016

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