Shreya Dasgupta

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Shreya Dasgupta is a Newswire editor at Mongabay. She's a writer, editor and podcast producer, focusing on science and the environment.

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Ridzki in Jambi in 2022. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

How Mongabay Indonesia grew into a trusted environmental voice

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Jun 2025
A relaxed leopard family in Kumana. Sightings like this have boosted the popularity of Kumana National Park in eastern Sri Lanka among wildlife tourists seeking leopard encounters. Image courtesy of Shanaka Kalubowila.

Sri Lanka’s Kumana National Park emerges as a leopard hotspot

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2025
Banner image of drought in Brazil in 2023. Image by AP Photo/Edmar Barros.

Vatican-backed report calls for global debt relief amid climate crisis

Kristine Sabillo 20 Jun 2025
Artisanal fishing boats in Ghana. Image by MPIMPIMHENE Nana Gyetuah Eric via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ghana to expand artisanal fishing zone amid trawler violations

Victoria Schneider 20 Jun 2025

Broadway Mall rewilding brings native plants and wildlife to New York City

Bobby Bascomb 19 Jun 2025
Banner image of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, courtesy of Morib et al., 2025.

Camera traps and Indigenous knowledge help confirm presence of ‘lost’ echidna species

Kristine Sabillo 19 Jun 2025
Split shot in the waters of San Benedicto, Mexico. Credit: Enric Sala/National Geographic Pristine Seas

The ocean is in crisis. A new effort is betting on coastal communities to save it.

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Jun 2025
A critically endangered Chinese pangolin. Image by Rajib Rudra Tariang via iNaturalist.

US proposes adding seven pangolin species to Endangered Species Act

Spoorthy Raman 18 Jun 2025
Udzungwa endemic Sanje mangabey. Image courtesy Trevor Jones.

Protecting Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains means putting communities at the center of conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jun 2025
Angelshark (Squatina squatina) by Michael Bommerer via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY4.0).

Endangered angelshark decline may be overestimated, study shows

Kristine Sabillo 17 Jun 2025
A dehorned white rhino with her calf. Image courtesy of Tim Kuiper.

To reduce rhino poaching — by a lot — cut off their horns, study says

Dann Okoth 17 Jun 2025
A sarus crane pair sings a duet. Image by Ad031259 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Unique notes in sarus crane duets help distinguish sexes for conservation

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2025

Alaska wolves poisoned by mercury after switching to sea otter diet

Bobby Bascomb 13 Jun 2025

Paris goal of 1.5°C warming is still too hot for polar ice sheets, study warns

Bobby Bascomb 13 Jun 2025
Banner image of a desert locust by Joachim Frische via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY-SA3.0).

As climate change worsens global locust crisis, researchers offer solutions 


Kristine Sabillo 13 Jun 2025
Banner image of the waters around Maupiti Island in French Polynesia by Sophie Hurel via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY3.0).

French Polynesia creates world’s largest marine protected area

Kristine Sabillo 12 Jun 2025
Banner image of a glacier in Greenland from NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain).

Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists

Kristine Sabillo 11 Jun 2025

Global ocean acidification has passed safe planetary boundary threshold: Study

Bobby Bascomb 11 Jun 2025
A great white shark in Mossel Bay, South Africa. Image courtesy of Esther Jacobs.

Death of tagged white shark on bather protection gear in South Africa sparks debate

Victoria Schneider 11 Jun 2025

UN scientists propose ‘minerals trust’ to power green energy, protect communities

Bobby Bascomb 7 Jun 2025
Emergency workers wading through floodwaters as they prepare inflatable boats to effect rescues near Taree, Australia, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (NSW Police via AP)

Australia to see more intense rains as climate change worsens, analysis shows

Kristine Sabillo 6 Jun 2025
Rescuers evacuate people from a flooded hospital following landslides and flash flooding in India's northeast state of Manipur, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Donald Sairem)

Heavy rains inundate northeast India

Kristine Sabillo 6 Jun 2025

Climate change and shrinking Arctic sea ice threaten bowhead whales

Bobby Bascomb 6 Jun 2025
Banner image of Mokwa after the flooding, by the Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency via X.

Hundreds die after flash floods tear through Nigerian market town

Kristine Sabillo 5 Jun 2025
Clouded leopard carrying a Bengal slow loris. Image courtesy of Digboi Forest Division.

Clouded leopard seen preying on Bengal slow loris in rare photograph

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2025
A Bornean orangutan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them.

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2025
Banner image of tiang in South Sudan ©Marcus Westberg/African Parks.

New maps reveal Earth’s largest land mammal migration

Kristine Sabillo 3 Jun 2025
Containers floating at the site of the shipwreck. Image by Spokesperson of the Indian Navy via X.

Cargo ship carrying ‘hazardous material’ capsizes off India coast

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2025

A street-smart hawk uses a pedestrian signal to hunt in the city

Bobby Bascomb 23 May 2025
Planted forest in Panama.

Why biological diversity should be at the heart of conservation

Kristine Sabillo 21 May 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Beijing in May. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Brazil government.

Brazil & China move ahead on 3,000-km railway crossing the Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2025
Under-construction residential buildings in Kolkata. Image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

India sets construction waste recycling targets with new rules

Mongabay.com 21 May 2025

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