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On World Rainforest Day, stories of Amazon danger and resistance

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2025
Banner image of Wutip as a severe tropical storm on June 14, 2025 by the Japan Meteorological Agency via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

Typhoon Wutip ravages Asia with strong winds and flooding

Kristine Sabillo 17 Jun 2025

Coral reefs and seagrass get new protections off Tanzania’s Pemba Island

Malavika Vyawahare and Rebecca Kessler 12 Jun 2025
Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in flight. Image by Alexas Fotos via Pexels.

Golden eagle spotted in England for first time in more than a decade

Shanna Hanbury 12 Jun 2025
Inga dam site on the Congo River. Image by International Rivers via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

World Bank to finance controversial DRC hydropower project, concerns remain

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Jun 2025
Adélie penguins on Cape Hallet, Antarctica. Image by Andrew Mandemaker via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).

Penguin poop helps form clouds over Antarctica, potentially cooling it

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jun 2025
Banner image of a gelada by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Gelada monkey vocalizations offer insight into human evolution: Study

Kristine Sabillo 9 Jun 2025
Aerial view of eucalyptus logs. Image courtesy of Tamás Bodolay/Repórter Brasil.

Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jun 2025
Banner image of the Ekalakala bonobo group in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the DRC courtesy of Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project.

Female bonobos wield power through unity: Study

Kristine Sabillo 3 Jun 2025
Peatland deforestation in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

World Peatland Day: Protecting a crucial carbon sink

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Jun 2025

Study identifies US regions that benefit birds, people & climate the most

Spoorthy Raman 30 May 2025

UK signs deal handing over Chagos to Mauritius, but tensions remain

Malavika Vyawahare 30 May 2025
Banner image: The Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa captured by the Pléiades Neo satellite. Image courtesy of the Airbus Foundation and Connected Conservation Foundation.

‘Satellites for Biodiversity’ upgrades with new projects and launches insight hub

Kristine Sabillo 26 May 2025
Cape Orange National Park on the Amazonian coast of the state of Amapá. Offshore oil block 59 is located 160 kilometers (99 miles) away. Image © Victor Moriyama/Greenpeace.

Brazil advances with plan to drill oil at the mouth of the Amazon River

Shanna Hanbury 26 May 2025
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

Kristine Sabillo 23 May 2025
On the left, rainforest deforestation for an oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia. On the right, soy fields next to Gran Chaco forest in Bolivia. Images by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU anti-deforestation law could overlook big violators, NGO warns

Shanna Hanbury 23 May 2025
A subadult male capuchin with a howler monkey infant. Image courtesy of Brendan Barrett/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.

Capuchin monkeys on Panama island seen stealing howler monkey babies

Shreya Dasgupta 21 May 2025
Student volunteers with trash collected during the 2024 Himalayan Cleanup campaign. Image courtesy of The Himalayan Cleanup.

F&B packaging fuels growing plastic waste crisis in Indian Himalayas: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 20 May 2025

Scat-sampling DNA tool shows potential in African carnivore conservation

Dann Okoth 19 May 2025
A man herds goats in the town of Gotu in Isiolo county, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Kenyan soil carbon project suspended for a second time

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2025
Forest fires in the state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Victor Moriyama/Greenpeace.

Brazil antideforestation operation blacklists more than 500 farms in the Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 15 May 2025
Water flowing at a wastewater treatment facility in Manila. Image by Danilo Pinzon/World Bank via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Antibiotic pollution widespread in world’s rivers, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 15 May 2025
Banner image of an Iban woman in Sarawak, Malaysia, courtesy of Luciana Téllez-Chávez/Human Rights Watch.

Malaysian timber company accused of abuse & rights violations: Report

Kristine Sabillo 14 May 2025
Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus) courtesy of Staffan Widstrand/Swedensbigfive.org.

EU’s legislative body accepts weakening of wolf protection

Shreya Dasgupta 14 May 2025

World Bank launches historic framework addressing harms from development projects

Victoria Schneider 9 May 2025
Chimpanzees in in Cantanhez National Park in southern Guinea-Bissau eating a fermented African breadfruit. Image by Bowland et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0).

Chimpanzees filmed sharing alcoholic fruits for the first time

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2025
Image of a dugong by Julien Willem via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mozambique announces petrochemical city on sensitive Inhambane seascape

Shreya Dasgupta 8 May 2025
Banner Image of a far eastern curlew courtesy of Dong-pil.

Scientists warn of S. Korea airport project’s impact on migratory bird habitat

Kristine Sabillo 7 May 2025

Warming seas and illegal trawlers threaten West Africa’s fishing future, study warns

Victoria Schneider 6 May 2025

North American birds are plummeting in areas where they’re plentiful

Spoorthy Raman 2 May 2025
A common leopard drinking water in a forest in Sri Lanka. Image by Udayan Dasgupta/Mongabay.

International Leopard Day celebrates the resilient, yet often-overlooked, big cat

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2025
A forest fire in Sancheong County, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, in March 2025. Image by 경상남도 via Wikimedia Commons (KOGL Type 1).

Deadly South Korea wildfires made twice more likely by climate change

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2025

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