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Students in Afghanistan walk to school in a sand storm during a drought in 2019.

Supercharged dust storms are exposing millions to deadly air pollution

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2025
Logging in western Cambodia. Image anonymously provided to Mongabay.

Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas

Mongabay.com 27 Oct 2025
The new-to-science Marmosa chachapoya species. Photo courtesy of Silvia Pavan.

Scientists describe new-to-science mouse opossum from Peruvian Andes

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2025
Fishers unload bycatch from an industrial fishing vessel in southern Thailand. Image © Biel Calderon/Greenpeace.

Global treaty to end subsidies for destructive fishing takes effect

Mongabay.com 10 Oct 2025
Contraband goods seized by the border guard in Vinh Long province, southern Vietnam. Image courtesy of Xuan Loc/Tuổi Trẻ.

Authorities in Vietnam bust wildlife smugglers with tons of rare animal parts

Shanna Hanbury 9 Oct 2025
Seabed after bottom trawling. Image courtesy of Howard Wood/Oceana UK.

UK rejects total ban on bottom trawling in offshore marine protected areas

Shanna Hanbury 7 Oct 2025
Rachaprapa Kamphud leads the Ban Pong community forest and fire management group. Image by Carolyn Cowan/Mongabay.

Women firefighters in Thailand restore community forest

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2025
A young Taita falcon in South Africa. Image courtesy of Anthony van Zyl.

Mozambique reserve found to host rare Taita falcon’s largest refuge

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2025
Author David Helvarg among the kelp stipes off Anacapa Island in southern California’s Channel Islands.

California’s kelp forests struggle to recover a decade after collapse

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2025
Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes receives the 2025 John B. Oakes award on Sept. 18. Image courtesy of Sirin Samman.

Oakes Award delivers top prize to Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2025
A wolf being released into the wild after getting a GPS collar.

Gray wolves’ return to California tests human tolerance for coexistence

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2025
A blue shark (Prionace glauca).

Mongabay shark investigation cited in motion to ban Brazil fin exports

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2025
Island in the South Pacific, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rising seas won’t reduce ocean borders of small island nations, UN court rules

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2025
The Buenavista Indigenous Guard employs spiritual, political, and educational approaches that involve men, women and children. Image courtesy of the Siona Indigenous community.

Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2025
Rubber agroforestry in Indonesia. Concerns are that the deforestation definition used by the EUDR could negatively impact farmers practicing agroforestry, leading to their exclusion from EU commodity supply chains, impacting their livelihoods.

Experts flag unintended harms from EU deforestation law

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2025
Przewalski’s horses in the Villanueva de Alcorón forest in Spain. Image courtesy of Neil Aldridge/Rewilding Europe.

Wild horses return to Spain’s Iberian highlands after 10,000 years

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2025
A Galápagos pink land iguana. Image courtesy of Jorge Carrión/Galápagos Conservancy.

How to smuggle a wild Galápagos iguana? Pretend it was bred in Africa

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2025
A jaguar spotted on the banks of the São Lourenço River. Image by Francesco Schneider-Eicke for Mongabay.

Overcrowding threatens sustainability of jaguar ecotourism in Brazil’s Pantanal

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2025

Conservationists split over greener ranching versus ditching beef

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2025
Kelp (genus Laminariales) is a shallow-water, light-dependent marine plant.

Experimental ocean climate fixes move ahead without regulation

Mongabay.com 11 Sep 2025
Brazil’s National School Feeding Program is one of the largest in the world, and a significant consumer of shark meat. Image courtesy of Angelo Miguel/MEC.

Brazil cities vow to stop buying threatened shark meat after Mongabay probe

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2025
Angelshark (Squatina squatina) in Spain by Michael Bommerer via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY4.0).

Brazil cities order endangered angelshark meat despite fishing ban

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2025
Workers at the CEAGESP food warehouse in São Paulo sort shark meat for distribution. Image by Philip Jacobson/Mongabay.

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2025
Paulo Paulino Guajajara, from left, with Laércio Guajajara, Karla Mendes and Olimpio Guajajara during Mendes's 2019 reporting trip. Paulo was killed in an ambush nine months later. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes wins 2025 Oakes Award for environmental journalism

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025
Humberto Mendes feeding a blue-and-yellow macaw. Image courtesy of Chris Biro.

Blue-and-yellow macaws return to São Paulo skies after 50 years, thanks to flying lessons

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025
A man fans himself on a hot day in Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain, on June 28, 2025. Image © Paul White/AP.

Extreme heat kills at least 2,300 in European cities, study estimates

Shanna Hanbury 14 Jul 2025
The Matsés in Peru were one of the Indigenous communities targeted by the finance schemes. Image by Mongabay.

Mongabay investigation of sketchy forest finance schemes wins honorable mention

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2025
Humpback whales in Western Australia. Image courtesy of Emilie Ledwidge/Ocean Image Bank.

World Oceans Day: Scientists find new clues about frontiers of ocean life

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2025
Author Sangeeta Waldron at a book launch event. Image courtesy of Sangeeta Waldron.

Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes profiled in new book on climate leaders

Mongabay.com 27 May 2025
A harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja). Image by Brian Gratwicke via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Harpy eagle confirmed in Mexico for first time in over a decade

Mongabay.com 22 May 2025
Sueli Maxakali in front of a reforested hill. Image by Xavier Bartaburu/Mongabay.

Global prize longlists Mongabay feature on Maxakali reforestation in Brazil

Mongabay.com 8 May 2025
A young orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine (Sphiggurus villosus) rescued by the Vida Livre institute. Image by Rafael Bacelar for Mongabay.

Brazilian rescue center returns trafficked animals to the wild

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2025

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Volunteers harvest tea leaves in Shenkeng district, Taiwan. During the harvest season, groups of women from the Shenkeng community will move from plantation to plantation, working in a centuries-old spirit of mutual assistance across farms. Experts contend that teas picked by hand are much less likely to be damaged and produce a finer product. Image by Michael O. Snyder for Mongabay.
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