Mike DiGirolamo

Mike DiGirolamo

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Mike DiGirolamo is the host and producer of The Mongabay Newscast. He is based in Sydney, Australia. Find him on LinkedIn, and BlueSky.

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Mt. Taranaki, New Zealand, captured March 16, 2022. Image courtesy of Planet Labs PBC.

How the ‘wrong story’ ends up harming nature, and how we can change it

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Mar 2026

Bringing Mongabay’s Amazon narco airstrip exposé to the stage

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Feb 2026
Lisa Morehead-Hillman and Leaf Hillman, both Karuk, celebrate the removal of the dams on the newly exposed reservoir floor in 2024. The former head of the Karuk Natural Resources Department, Leaf spent two decades working with other Indigenous groups, environmental organizations and government officials to bring back the Klamath River. Image courtesy of Kiliii Yüyan.

Kiliii Yüyan puts Indigenous ‘Guardians of Life’ and their planetary stewardship in focus

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Feb 2026
Mangroves on Vanua Levu Island, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

60 years of buried lessons on conservation projects from USAID have been saved

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Feb 2026
Coastline of Big Sur in California. In 2013, a group of researchers found eggs of California condors in the coastal redwoods of Big Sur contaminated with DDT, even though the pesticide has been banned in the U.S. since 1972. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Writer Megan Mayhew Bergman on science, emotion, and the lasting power of ‘Silent Spring’

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Feb 2026
An olive tree and grove. Image by Dimitris Vetsikas via Pixabay.

Europe’s olive grove crisis affects nature & culture, but has solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Jan 2026
Pattie Gonia. Image by Evan Benally Atwood, courtesy of Pattie Gonia.

Drag artist Pattie Gonia on why nature advocacy needs joy to succeed

Mike DiGirolamo, Basten Gokkon 20 Jan 2026
Judith Enck, author of The Problem with Plastic, holding a copy of the book. Image by Jerrick Mitra.

Plastic pollution requires urgent action, says author Judith Enck

Mike DiGirolamo 6 Jan 2026
White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. Iwate prefecture. These spires are estimated to be around 45 million years old, and form a natural version of a Japanese garden. This beach is part of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Photo by Mike DiGirolamo/Mongabay.

The top 10 most listened-to podcasts of 2025 from Mongabay

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2025
Gregg Treinish in Botswana's Okavango. Photo by Shah Selbe

How ‘Adventure Scientists’ provide pioneering data for conservation

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2025
A double-hooked blue shark.

Brazilian government serves shark to infants, prisoners and more: How Mongabay broke the story

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Dec 2025
Rainforest in Gabon surrounded by Ivindo River.

Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says

Mike DiGirolamo 9 Dec 2025
Where cars go to die: an auto graveyard.

A ‘Life After Cars’ can provide huge human health and environmental benefits

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Dec 2025
Women of Masaka embark on cassava cultivation. The plantation areas are located in the heart of the community of Mabaka in the Kwango region. Image by Ley Uwera. Courtesy of The Tenure Facility.

Rights to millions of hectares of Indigenous & local communities’ lands restored by ‘barefoot lawyers’

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Nov 2025
Baobab Alley in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Pioneering primatologist in Madagascar shares decades of conservation wisdom

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Nov 2025
The last photo taken between Rhett Butler and Jane Goodall--who shared a friendship for nearly 15 years--at the Forbes Sustainability Leadership Summit. Photo by Sofia Negron.

Rhett Butler reflects on recent accolades, and Jane Goodall’s legacy of hope

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Nov 2025
A humpback whale

Australia celebrates ‘humpback comeback,’ but a main food source is under threat

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Oct 2025
Two members of the Prey Preah Roka Community Network – a grassroots activism group made up of communities around the wildlife sanctuary - document an illegally logged tree in the wildlife sanctuary. The grassroots group regularly patrol the wildlife sanctuary, documenting any illegal logging they come across by marking GPS coordinates, as well as taking a note of the species and diameter of the trees. Image by: Andy Ball / Mongabay.

New book unearths environmental crime’s psychological roots

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Oct 2025
Whānganui River

Pioneering policies and rights-of-nature rules win World Future Policy Awards

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Oct 2025
American Avocet. Image by Michael Barry via Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

Bird-watching for nature connection & social justice

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Oct 2025
Mountain gorillas by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo for Mongabay.

Mongabay staffer shares the joy and impact of wildlife photography

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Sep 2025
Lolita Cabrera (Maya K’iche’), an Indigenous rights activist from Guatemala. Photo by Jamie Malcom-Brown/ Cultural Survival.

Bridging Indigenous and Western knowledge with science and radio

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 24 Sep 2025

Canada’s mining companies destroy biodiversity with impunity, Indigenous journalist reports

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Sep 2025
Island in the South Pacific, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Top court delivers a ‘huge’ climate win for island nations

Mike DiGirolamo 9 Sep 2025
Statue of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

To save humanity and nature we must tackle wealth inequality, says Cambridge researcher

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Sep 2025
Natalie Kyriacou holding a Tasmanian devil. Image courtesy of Natalie Kyriacou.

The honesty, humor and wonder of ‘Nature’s Last Dance,’ from Natalie Kyriacou

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Aug 2025
White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. These spires are estimated to be around 45 million years old and form a natural version of a Japanese garden. This beach is part of Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Image by Mike DiGirolamo for Mongabay.

Don’t quit: A podcaster’s charge to listeners & fellow humans (commentary)

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Aug 2025
Chrome Hill in Yorkshire, England. Image by Tim Hill via Pixabay (Pixabay free content license).

England’s rewilding movement is gaining steam, Ben Goldsmith says

Mike DiGirolamo 12 Aug 2025
Kicker Rock in the Galápagos, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In ‘Hope Dies Last,’ author Alan Weisman chronicles the people fighting for the planet

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Aug 2025
River in the Kosnipata valley, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Empathy and spiritual ecology are a conservation solution and ‘radical cure’

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Jul 2025
Supertree grove is part of the Gardens by the Bay (GBTB) urban park in Singapore, covering 105 hectares (260 acres). Image by Tien Tran (tientran0019) via Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

Singapore’s regreening is a model for cities everywhere

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Jul 2025
Emergent tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

To change the environment, change the narrative

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Jul 2025

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