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Fishers in the Mekong River near Chiang Khong, Thailand. Elevated arsenic levels at testing sites in the Mekong indicate that contamination may be spreading into this vital waterway. Image by Stefan Lovgren.

Dangerous arsenic levels detected in Thailand’s Mekong mainstream for first time

Gerald Flynn 8 May 2026

Scientists from Konservasi International satellite tagging a whale shark.

A 10-year whale shark satellite study helps create new protected area in Indonesia

Claire Turrell 5 May 2026

Fishers collect their nets on the Sesan River, just a few hundred meters from the O’Ta Bouk-Sesan confluence. Fishers who use the O’Ta Bouk told Mongabay that their catches have declined significantly over the past three years. Photo by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Cambodia tested waters amid pollution claims; months later, still no public results

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 4 May 2026

Most of Chi’s annual income comes from selling apricot blossoms — a symbol of luck and prosperity in Vietnam — around Lunar New Year.

Saline intrusion in Mekong Delta leaves farmers and scientists at odds

Minh L Tran 30 Apr 2026

Volunteer surveyors in Singapore

Citizen science helps reconnect Singapore treetops for elusive leaf-eating langurs

Carolyn Cowan 23 Apr 2026

Joy as a baby. Image courtesy of Gibbon Conservation Society.

To tackle trafficking in gibbons, experts probe what drives demand

Ana Norman Bermúdez 20 Apr 2026

A Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) at Liguasan Marsh.

Energy crisis revives push to drill in Philippines’ largest intact wetland

Bong S. Sarmiento 17 Apr 2026

A Borneo orangutan.

See an orangutan, take a photo, earn some money: A viable conservation model?

Linnea Hoover 15 Apr 2026

A pygmy long-fingered possum (Dactylonax kambuayai), photographed in 2023. Image courtesy of Jon Hall/mammalwatching.com.

‘Rediscovered’ species in Papua spotlight importance of Indigenous knowledge

John Cannon 15 Apr 2026

Vietnamese activists hold a photo of dead fish, allegedly killed with toxic chemicals, during a protest to urge Formosa Plastics Group to take responsibilities for the cleanup in Vietnam, August 2016, in Taipei, Taiwan.

10 years after Vietnam’s Formosa steel plant spill, justice for victims remains elusive

Hướng Thiện 6 Apr 2026

How wild cattle recovery is transforming local livelihoods near key Thai reserve

Carolyn Cowan 2 Apr 2026

Thai court rules gold mine liable, but villagers face uncertain justice

Kannikar Petchkaew 1 Apr 2026

White-bellied heron

Local conservationists sustain research on threatened heron amid Myanmar instability

Carolyn Cowan 30 Mar 2026

In Laos, ancestral spirits are helping save one of the world’s rarest crocodiles

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2026

Fish on a beach in New Ireland province. Image ©Sebastian Velasquez.

PNG’s New Ireland coastal waters causing fish deaths, human sickness

John Cannon 20 Mar 2026

Proboscis monkey found in Thailand adds to evidence of cross-border illegal trade

Ana Norman Bermúdez 20 Mar 2026

Cambodia’s Supreme Court denies release of five imprisoned environmental activists

John Cannon 16 Mar 2026

Cambodian market survey a snapshot of a resilient — but stressed — Mekong

Stefan Lovgren 10 Mar 2026

Cameroon’s decade of conflict leaves apes and conservationists in peril

Orji Sunday 3 Mar 2026

Deadly landfill collapse exposes risks faced by Philippines’ waste pickers

Michael Beltran 2 Mar 2026

A radio-collared slow loris in Bangladesh.

Out of captivity, into conflict: slow lorises struggle to survive after release

Carolyn Cowan 26 Feb 2026

Bat in a cave in Myanmar

In Myanmar’s limestone hills, people and bats are often too close for comfort

Carolyn Cowan 25 Feb 2026

Asian tapir adult

In Thailand, old camera-trap photos shed new light on Asian tapirs

Carolyn Cowan 24 Feb 2026

Scientists at work against a backdrop of lab glassware.

In Thailand, a coral cryobank tries to buy time for dying reefs

Neelanjana Rai 20 Feb 2026

Scientists discover a new whale highway after tagging a pygmy blue whale by drone

Claire Turrell 18 Feb 2026

Pilot projects aim to break Indonesia’s habit of burning household waste

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Feb 2026

Fishers in Takeo province rely on the annual flooding of wetlands where they raise and catch a variety of crustaceans. Image by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Farmers fear displacement, drought, flooding tied to Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 12 Feb 2026

Mines, dams move in as protection slips in a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Coby Hobbs, Eung Sea 6 Feb 2026

Seagrass in Malaysia

Seagrass restoration in Malaysia finds multi-species approach boosts recovery

Carolyn Cowan 4 Feb 2026

Corals in Thailand

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2026

Orchid

Myanmar’s botanical data gaps risk its unique flora, collaborations could help, study says

Carolyn Cowan 13 Jan 2026

A woman stands near a shop damaged during a flood in Aceh province, Indonesia, Nov. 29, 2025.

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Dec 2025

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Aerial view of solar-powered drip irrigation scheme in Tauya village, Zambia. In Zambia, the majority of rural communities depend on rain-fed agriculture. However, erratic weather patterns, including drought, often lead to significant crop damage and livestock losses. Food security remains a pressing issue. Photo by Enoch Kavindele Jr/UNDP Zambia via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.).

Photographer Jonathan Bachman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for capturing a photograph of Ieshia Evans being arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was Ieshia Evans first protest, and Bachman’s first time covering one. The photo was included in The New York Times’ “The Year in Pictures 2016,” among other honors. jonathan bachman / reuters. Shepard Fairey—a prolific artist and activist who often addresses social and political issues in his work—was invited by the authors of ‘Protest’ to interpret Bachman’s photograph for the book. Image credit to Shepard Fairey. Image Courtesy of Patagonia Books.

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