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A small airplane used for the illegal mining network is set on fire by IBAMA inspectors in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.

Brazil mining boss sentenced for illegal gold operation on Indigenous land

Shanna Hanbury 12 Feb 2026

Banks decline to finance LNG project in Papua New Guinea

Victoria Schneider 11 Feb 2026

Demonstrators on Feb. 8 in Santarém, Pará state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Movimento Tapajós Vivo.

Indigenous protests force Brazil to suspend Tapajós River dredging plan

Shanna Hanbury 10 Feb 2026

African penguins at a beach in Simon's Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Unidentified oil washes up on South African beaches

Victoria Schneider 10 Feb 2026

Fresh shark meat is sold as “cação” at streeet markets in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro bans shark meat in most state schools

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2026

Global moratorium on whaling, a ‘defining moment,’ turns 40

Edward Carver 5 Feb 2026

African wild dogs break the carnivore rule in Botswana

Ryan Truscott 3 Feb 2026

Truphena Muthoni hugging a tree for 72 consecutive hours. Image by Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga via X.

Kenyan woman hugs a tree for 3 days and inspires a movement

Lynet Otieno 3 Feb 2026

Solar energy gains ground across Africa, but challenges persist

Elodie Toto 30 Jan 2026

New data highlight Peru’s growing oil and gas footprint in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 30 Jan 2026

Açaí extraction provides income for local communities while helping to keep forests standing.

Brazil declares açaí a national fruit amid biopiracy concerns

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jan 2026

Data show oil and gas blocks cover one-fourth of Ecuador, mostly in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 29 Jan 2026

An aerial view of Black River, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. Image by AP Photo/Matias Delacroix.

More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025

Shanna Hanbury 29 Jan 2026

Honeyguide birds learn local human dialects

Ryan Truscott 23 Jan 2026

Critical wetland in Angola gets formal Ramsar recognition

Ryan Truscott 21 Jan 2026

After a game of beach footvolley on a sweltering hot day in Beirut, Lebanon, a man cools off by pouring water on himself.

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows

Shanna Hanbury 20 Jan 2026

South Africa’s great white shark population worries researchers

Victoria Schneider 13 Jan 2026

Canceled tourism project still threatens local communities in Tanzania

Victoria Schneider 13 Jan 2026

Twin infant mountain gorillas born in DRC

Elodie Toto 9 Jan 2026

Minerals treaty proposed by Colombia & Oman gets pushback at UN meeting

Aimee Gabay 9 Jan 2026

Deforestation in Mato Grosso state. Image © Paulo Pereira/Greenpeace.

Soy giants drop Amazon no-deforestation pledge as subsidies come under threat

Shanna Hanbury 9 Jan 2026

Indigenous women lead a firefighting brigade in Brazil’s Cerrado

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2026

An oil refinery in Slovakia. Image by Mariano Mantel via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says

Shanna Hanbury 26 Dec 2025

Kenyan wildlife census reveals conservation wins and losses

Lynet Otieno 19 Dec 2025

: Press conference following the vote to delay the EUDR, again. Image courtesy of Laurie Dieffembacq/European Union.

EU votes to delay EUDR antideforestation law for second year in a row

Shanna Hanbury 19 Dec 2025

The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Dec 2025

Birds, bugs and butterflies netted in global seizures by Interpol

Spoorthy Raman 12 Dec 2025

Illegal fishing, other maritime threats cost Western Indian Ocean $1b a year: Report

Anne Nzouankeu 12 Dec 2025

Smoke from wildfires fills the air over Lake Tefé in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Miguel Monteiro.

The Amazon’s lakes are heating up at ‘alarming’ rate, research finds

Shanna Hanbury 11 Dec 2025

Aerial view of Australia coastline. Credit: James Donaldson

Study warns of major funding gap for 30×30 biodiversity goal

David Akana 11 Dec 2025

Environmental activists remain jailed in Cambodia on Human Rights Defenders Day

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2025

Thismia selangorensis, courtesy of Gim Siew Tan.

A new ‘fairy lantern’ species is found at a Malaysian picnic site

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Dec 2025

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In this operation, enforcement officials recovered 28 native reptiles, including shingleback lizards (pictured here), spiny-tailed skinks and lace monitors. Image courtesy of the National Environmental Protection Agency.

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