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Coral reef in Vietnam.

Major coral loss in Vietnam’s first marine protected area: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 20 Jun 2025
Perenco’s offshore platform in Gabon.

Report exposes safety complaints preceding fatal Perenco explosion in Gabon

Elodie Toto 19 Jun 2025
Industrial trawlers and small-scale fishers compete for space near the port of Dakar in Senegal.

UN Ocean Conference makes progress on protecting marine waters

Edward Carver 19 Jun 2025

Twin ship disasters in India threaten widespread pollution on Sri Lankan coasts

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jun 2025
Boats sporting "No Dam" parade down the Salween River along the Thai-Myanmar border in March 2025. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Specter of dams and diversion looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River

Gerald Flynn 19 Jun 2025
Humpback whales in French Polynesian waters. The intensity and duration of marine heat waves could have widespread effects on marine biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of species displacement and mortality. Image by Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank.

Whales still aren’t ‘eating all the fish’ (commentary)

Peter Corkeron 18 Jun 2025
Clown anemonefish live symbiotically with anemone

When heat waves hit, clownfish shrink to survive, study finds

Keith Anthony Fabro 18 Jun 2025
Fishermen releasing a sea turtle.

Peru’s new bycatch training aims to help save hooked sea turtles: Q&A with fisher Gustavo Rosales

Ana Cristina Alvarado 18 Jun 2025
A dusky whaler shark (Carcharhinus obscurus) entangled in Ballina, New South Wales, Australia in 2017.

On its 50th anniversary, ‘Jaws’ continues to provoke shark conservationists

Edward Carver 18 Jun 2025
British journalist Dom Phillips on a 2022 trip to the Brazilian Amazon.

Finishing Dom Phillips’ posthumous book was ‘the hardest thing emotionally’ co-authors say

Karla Mendes 18 Jun 2025

In Peru, Yine women show how defending the Amazon supports local livelihoods

Geraldine Santos 18 Jun 2025
A female elephant with her calf on agricultural land in northeastern Bangladesh.

Bangladesh plans new ‘protected area’ for elephants in its conflict-prone northeast

Abu Siddique 18 Jun 2025
A coral reef around Nukuoro Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia, where microbial-based monitoring is undertaken to assess reef health.

Another way to check the health of a coral reef: Study the microbes in the seawater

Edward Carver 17 Jun 2025
Amazon rainforest. Credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal

Carla Ruas 17 Jun 2025
A forest elephant, not from Senegal.

First elephant sighting in 6 years sparks hope for species’ return to a Senegal park

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025
A coal miner walking barefoot through heaps of coal dust at a coal mine and processing plant, Jharkand, India. Image courtesy of Rajesh Kumar Singh / Climate Visuals Countdown.

At COP30 & beyond, the fight for climate justice must end corporate impunity (commentary)

Pablo Fajardo 17 Jun 2025

Wildfires push tropical forest loss in Latin America to record highs

Mie Hoejris Dahl 17 Jun 2025
Large felines like jaguars need large areas to hunt and reproduce. Image courtesy of Steve Winter/Panthera

Protect one large forest, or many small ones? New study reignites conservation debate

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Jun 2025
White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), Gabon. Image by bureaubenjamin via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025
Coal mine on a barge in Indonesia.

Indonesian utility PLN ‘kneecaps renewables’ with embrace of fossil fuels

Jeff Hutton 17 Jun 2025
Munduruku people from the Sawré Muybu village gather in an assembly to receive feedback from Fiocruz on the hair sample test results determining levels of mercury contamination in people. Image by Joao Paulo Guimaeres via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

After crackdown on illegal miners, Indigenous Munduruku still grapple with health aftermath

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes 16 Jun 2025
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted each other during a recent meeting where the two countries discussed the proposed Bioceanic railway. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/PR

Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon

André Schröder 16 Jun 2025
Striped barracuda in Papua New Guinea.

PNG PM Marape rejects deep-sea mining even as provincial authorities try to revive project

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, John Cannon 16 Jun 2025

Microplastics and melting ice reveal deepening crisis in Antarctica

Soledad Domínguez 16 Jun 2025

Mounting risks due to climate change threaten Sri Lanka’s endemic species

Malaka Rodrigo 16 Jun 2025
Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Virunga National Park.

‘Culture & nature are one’: Interview with Mudja Chief Bitini Ndiyanabo Kanane

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 13 Jun 2025

New environmental licensing will build a power plant in the Cerrado and demolish a school

Guilherme Cavalcanti/Agência Pública 13 Jun 2025
Employed women of the Banpewa community carrying seedlings to the planting site.

After controversy, Plant-for-the-Planet focuses on the trees

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2025
The Nyamugasani River flows through the flood plains in the foothills of Rwenzori Mountains National Park, one of the sites supported by the CAPA initiative.

To survive climate change, scientists say protected areas need ‘climate-smart’ planning

Marina Martinez 13 Jun 2025
Sediment is clearly visible close to nickel mining operations on Kawe Island, Raja Ampat, discolouring the water in one of Indonesia’s most biodiverse marine areas. The concession covers an area of 5,922 hectares and is located within the mega-biodiversity region of Raja Ampat, West Papua. Image courtesy of Greenpeace.

No respite for Indonesia’s Raja Ampat as nickel companies sue to revive mines

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jun 2025

In the Brazilian Amazon, decentralization can be a double-edged sword

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Jun 2025
Keleino and his colleagues leave a community after training for the city of Lae.

‘It’s our garden’: PNG villages fight to prevent mine waste dumping in the sea

John Cannon 13 Jun 2025

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