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Shark meat on sale in Brazil is labeled as “cação,” a generic term whose true meaning is unknown to most Brazilians, surveys show.

Brazil’s shark meat problem

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2025
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

People on nature’s frontlines aren’t waiting for miracles, says author Alan Weisman

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2025

Borneo killing linked to coal industry stays unsolved as Indonesia VP visits Dayak village

Muhibar Sobary Ardan 12 Aug 2025
Flooded forest in the Amazon

Remedy frameworks can improve sustainable forestry certifications & right past wrongs (commentary)

Marc Jessel 11 Aug 2025

Sri Lanka plans restoring revoked protection for an important mangrove patch in the island’s North

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Aug 2025
A fisher casts a small fishing net to catch fish for his family outside Phnom Penh, 2024.

Displaced and dispossessed, Cambodia’s ethnic Cham fishers struggle to survive

Daniel Zak, Vutha Srey 7 Aug 2025
The sun rises on the Salween River, which serves as a vital lifeline for Karen communities on both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river faces threats of dams and diversions

Mongabay.com 6 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
Resident Huỳnh Ngọc Vân at his old seaside home, surrounded by demolished houses cleared for the project, late April 2025.

Rapid development, legal changes put pressure on Vietnam’s forestland

Le Quynh 4 Aug 2025

Jailed Vietnamese civil society leader wins award, boosting calls for his release

Jenny Denton 1 Aug 2025
Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025

That ‘fish’ on the menu? In Brazil’s schools and prisons, it’s often shark

Philip Jacobson, Karla Mendes, Kuang Keng Kuek Ser 29 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka Supreme Court orders $1 bn payment in X Press Pearl marine disaster

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Jul 2025

Batang coal plant’s seawater permit imperils marine life, fishing communities

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2025
Indigenous Lumad women hold slogans during a rally outside a military headquarters in the Philippines in 2018

Across Southeast Asia, Indigenous women challenge extraction and erasure

Hướng Thiện 25 Jul 2025
Campaigners in The Hague, Netherlands, where the ICJ gave its advisory opinion. Image courtesy of Tengbeh Kamara/Greenpeace.

Historic court ruling says countries legally bound to prevent climate harm

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2025

An aging leopard’s suffering sparks ethical debate in Sri Lanka

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka tusker death sparks euthanasia debate & calls for conservation solutions

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jul 2025
Ly Chandaravuth, Mother Nature Cambodia activist. Image © Andy Ball.

The price of protecting what’s left in Cambodia

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jul 2025

Indonesia moves to revise sea sand export policy after court ruling

Basten Gokkon, M Ambari 18 Jul 2025
Banner image of a cup of coffee by shixugang via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).

A better brew: How regenerative coffee could root out exploitation

Mongabay.com 16 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

The world’s children suffer brunt of wildfire smoke health impacts

Anna Dulisse 14 Jul 2025

Energy transition boom drives rise in lawsuits against alleged rights abuses

Mongabay.com 11 Jul 2025
4 people standing in front of a lake waving.

How private funding helped one NGO survive the USAID cuts

Aimee Gabay 10 Jul 2025
Using the law to save the planet | Against All Odds

Youth and women find success in taking climate cases to court

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2025
Small islands in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler. 

Listings of Indonesian islands renew fears of privatization for coastal communities

Basten Gokkon 8 Jul 2025
Top tools to protect rainforests | Against All Odds

From apps to Indigenous guardians: Ways we can save rainforests

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2025
Banner image of a flare stack by Yerevan Malarerva via Pexels.

UN rapporteur calls for ban on fossil fuel ads and criminalizing of disinformation

Kristine Sabillo 7 Jul 2025
Smokestacks image by Pixabay via Pexels (Public domain).

Catholic bishops from Global South call for ambitious climate action ahead of COP30

Kristine Sabillo 2 Jul 2025
Young activists risk all to defend Cambodia’s environment

Young activists risk all to defend Cambodia’s environment

Andy Ball, Marta Kasztelan 2 Jul 2025
Banner image of buildings in New York, U.S., by Dietmar Rabich via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jun 2025

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