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The biologist terrifying the US Forest Service and the timber and forest fire-fighting industries

Derek E. Lee 29 Aug 2016

US creates world’s largest marine reserve off Hawaii

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Aug 2016

Solving Global Grand Challenges, One MOOC at a Time

Taylor Robb-McCord 29 Aug 2016

Detector Dogs sniff out illegal ivory, help nab poacher in Tanzania

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Aug 2016

Yosemite as a case study in protected area downsizing and habitat fragmentation

Mike Gaworecki 26 Aug 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian police arrest hundreds in connection to burning land

Mongabay Haze Beat 26 Aug 2016

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Sue Branford 26 Aug 2016

New species of extinct, kitten-sized marsupial lion named after David Attenborough

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Aug 2016

Aceh governor eyes geothermal project in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Aug 2016

New ‘sleeping beauty’ frog discovered in fragmented Peruvian forest

Apoorva Joshi 25 Aug 2016

Rising sea levels could actually help coral reefs survive global warming: Study

Mike Gaworecki 25 Aug 2016

Pet trade’s “cute” and “adorable” label endangers the slow loris

Linda Lombardi 25 Aug 2016
Ricardo Miranda, one of the protest leaders and member of the M10 movement representing Ngäbe communities affected by the dam. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

PHOTOS: Panama revives stalled dam over strong indigenous opposition

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 25 Aug 2016

Endangered species often wait 12 years or more to be listed for protection

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Aug 2016

Study explores how new technologies can be linked to benefit conservation efforts

Mike Gaworecki 24 Aug 2016

Nixed Bolivian highway offers environmental lessons to big Brazil bank

Ana Rosa de Lima, Alexandra Ellerbeck 24 Aug 2016

END LOOP: Coding to end wildlife trafficking

Julia John 24 Aug 2016
Tanzanian women carry new beehives into the forest. Photo by Felipe Rodriguez/APW

Can helping women achieve financial freedom help the environment, too?

Roz Evans 24 Aug 2016

Human impact on environment may be slowing down: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Aug 2016

Raging Amazon forest fires threaten uncontacted indigenous tribe

Mike Gaworecki 23 Aug 2016

Indonesia must do more to protect whale sharks, conservationists say

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 23 Aug 2016

What conservation isn’t: Eating endangered lemurs to save them

Kim Reuter, Marni Lafleur, Tara Clarke 23 Aug 2016

Dams inevitably result in species decline, losses on reservoir islands

Claire Salisbury 23 Aug 2016

Atauro island has highest average reef fish diversity in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Aug 2016

Scientists have just discovered the first endemic bird species to go extinct on the Galápagos Islands

Mike Gaworecki 22 Aug 2016

Two new species of glowing spook fish discovered

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2016

Watch how corals ‘violently’ bleach as sea temperatures rise

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian parliament to investigate fire-linked firms in Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Aug 2016

Five tools are better than one: determining deforestation drivers from above

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Aug 2016

Sarawak establishes 2.2M acres of protected areas, may add 1.1M more

Mike Gaworecki 19 Aug 2016

Deforestation has been occurring continuously in New England since the 1980s

Mike Gaworecki 19 Aug 2016

New species of extinct dolphin discovered in museum collection

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2016

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