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Countries back strong new trade limits for sharks and rays at CITES summit

Victoria Schneider 3 Dec 2025
Brazil Environment Minister Marina Silva speaks out against the vote in Congress. Image courtesy of Fábio Rodrigues-Pozzebom/Agência Brasil.

Brazil votes to allow most projects & farms to skip environmental licensing

Shanna Hanbury 2 Dec 2025
European Parliament during voting session on Nov. 26. Image courtesy of the European Union.

EU backs another one-year delay for EUDR antideforestation law

Shanna Hanbury 27 Nov 2025
O'Shaughnessy's chameleon (Calumma oshaughnessyi), restricted to Madagascar. Image courtesy of Ricardo Rocha.

Island-confined reptiles face high extinction risk, but low research interest

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Nov 2025

Big finance still funds deforestation, 10 years after Paris pact

Aimee Gabay 25 Nov 2025
California sea lion by Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Chronic diseases prevalent across animals, but understudied: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Nov 2025
A mandrill is seen in a forest in Gabon.

Congo Basin nations roll out community payments for forest care

Anne Nzouankeu 20 Nov 2025

Gold mining exposes Indigenous women in Nicaragua to high mercury levels

Aimee Gabay 20 Nov 2025
A forest fire in Acre, the westernmost state of the Brazilian Amazon. Image courtesy of Victor Moriyama/Clean Air Fund.

Soot: The super-pollutant choking a burning Earth, in photos

Shanna Hanbury 20 Nov 2025
Puerto Caimán Island in the Curare-Los Ingleses Indigenous Reserve’s conservation area.

Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 18 Nov 2025

Ethiopia set to be named host of 2027 UN climate talks

Elodie Toto 17 Nov 2025
Aftermath of the Mariana Dam collapse in Minas Gerais.

UK court finds mining giant liable for decade-old dam disaster in Brazil

Shanna Hanbury 15 Nov 2025

Global Energy Outlook sees promise in Africa’s power transition — funds permitting

David Akana 13 Nov 2025

West Africa’s oceans get $68 million lifeline amid fisheries decline

Elodie Toto 12 Nov 2025

Cautious optimism greets new global forest fund at COP30

David Akana 7 Nov 2025

Study finds deforestation fuels West Africa’s water crisis

David Akana 7 Nov 2025
Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva at a Nov. 6 press conference. Image courtesy of Fernando Donasci/MMA.

Brazil launches fund tying forest cash to steep deforestation penalties

Shanna Hanbury 7 Nov 2025
Video of a brown rat catching a bat at Segeberger Kalkberg. Image courtesy of Gloza-Rausch et al., 2025 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Europe’s under-pressure bats face ‘astonishing’ threat: Ambush by rats

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2025

Kenya court upholds cancellation of 1,050 MW coal plant license

Lynet Otieno 6 Nov 2025

Congo Basin communities bear the costs of industrial expansion

David Akana 5 Nov 2025
A pangolin.

Nigeria passes tough new wildlife law; enforcement doubts remain

Valentine Benjamin 31 Oct 2025
Washed-up North Sea cod in Haroldswick, Scotland. Image courtesy of Mike Pennington (CC BY-SA 2.0).

UK fish stocks in trouble as catch limits exceed scientific advice: Report

Shanna Hanbury 29 Oct 2025
Sixty-seven Filipinos are suing Shell for damages suffered during Typhoon Rai in 2021. Image ©Miguel de Guzman/Greenpeace.

Filipino survivors of deadly 2021 typhoon planning to sue Shell for damages

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Oct 2025
A oceanic whitetip shark with pilot fish. Image by Johanlantz via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mexico adopts protections for Atlantic sharks

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2025
A green turtle. Image by Bernard DUPONT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Green turtle rebounds, moving from ‘endangered’ to ‘least concern’

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2025
Rodrigues fody by pierrickferret via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

20 animal species on the road to recovery: IUCN Red List update

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Oct 2025
Forest recovery in the Brazilian Amazon. Image courtesy of Celso Silva Junior.

Report finds increased tropical forest regrowth over the last decade

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2025
Recent fires in the Amazon Rainforest degraded a large portion of the world’s primary forests. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Global goal of zero deforestation by 2030 is severely off track

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2025
Pipistrellus etula. Image courtesy of Laura Torrent

World’s 1,500th known bat species confirmed from Equatorial Guinea

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Oct 2025
A gray wolf in Europe. Image by Mikkel Houmøller via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study busts big bad myth that wolves are growing fearless of humans

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Oct 2025
Amazon peoples have insisted on the urgency of having their voice and vote taken into account in biodiversity negotiations. Photo by UN biodiversity.

Indigenous leaders gather at the IUCN Indigenous Peoples and Nature summit

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Oct 2025
Starfish on sunken World War II munitions in the Baltic Sea. Image courtesy of Vedenin et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0).

Marine life are thriving on Nazi missile debris in the Baltic Sea: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Oct 2025

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