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Since US intervention, Venezuela’s illegal mining crisis has only worsened, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 15 Sep 2026
A waste picker works amid thick smoke rising from the vast garbage mounds at Dhaka North City Corporation’s Aminbazar landfill in Savar. She was looking for plastic or other valuable recyclable items there.

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy project faces opposition from pollution-weary residents

Eyamin Sajid 15 Sep 2026
A forest and land fire burning in the Bukit Soeharto protected forest area in Sepaku, North Penajam Paser regency, Sept. 1, 2026.

Wildfires on doorstep of Indonesia’s new capital as environmental and health crisis flares

Niken D. Sitoningrum 15 Sep 2026
Offshore wind turbines at Noshiro Port, Japan.

10 promising ways to ‘green’ offshore wind

Sean Mowbray 15 Sep 2026
A Shompen man at 35km in Great Nicobar Island in 1997. The Shompen are the original forest dwellers of the island. Images courtesy of Mandish Chandi.

‘They should choose their own destinies’: Manish Chandi on India’s isolated tribes

Latoya Abulu 15 Sep 2026
Saruni, a male giant ground pangolin

Electric fences that kill and the Maasai trying to save Kenya’s last giant pangolins

Pauline Kairu 15 Sep 2026
Tiger

Kathmandu Resolution calls for Asia-wide leadership on conservation (commentary)

Sayan Banerjee 14 Sep 2026
Bar-headed geese (Anser indicus).

Decline of migratory birds spurs calls for coordinated conservation

Wilson Odhiambo 14 Sep 2026
shark fin

Panama looks to science, fishers, and the law to protect its sharks and rays

Monica Pelliccia 14 Sep 2026
A Ganges river dolphin in Bangladesh.

Against the odds, endangered dolphins survive in Bangladesh’s polluted river

Md Jahidul Islam 14 Sep 2026
A tuna catch on board an Ecuadorean purse seiner in the vicinity of the northern Galapagos Islands, with fishers in background.

Pacific bluefin tuna will get some help as countries agree to new harvest strategy

Francesco De Augustinis 14 Sep 2026
Participant in forest restoration in the Annamite mountains in Vietnam.

Biodiversity corridor payments boost household incomes in Vietnam’s Annamite mountains

Carolyn Cowan 14 Sep 2026
Illustration of the clownfish photo taken by Debby Ng.

A clownfish’s last stand

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2026

How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Sep 2026
Lesser and greater flamingos amass at Lake Natron

Migratory bird species increasingly at risk, report finds, but there is still hope

Sean Mowbray 11 Sep 2026

Lack of data hinders fight against environmental crimes in Angola, says environmentalist

David Tjyakala 11 Sep 2026
A pygmy marmoset.

Indigenous knowledge x tech in the search for a tiny Amazon monkey

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Sep 2026

Javan rhinos survive eruption in Indonesia, but single habitat leaves species vulnerable

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2026
The Amazon Fund finances a project by the Mamirauá Institute to support the sustainable management of pirarucu, one of the world’s biggest freshwater fish, in communities in the states of Pará and Amazonas. Image courtesy of Ricardo Oliveira/Mamirauá Institute.

Amazon Fund grantees fear a new funding freeze after Brazil’s election

Fernanda Wenzel 10 Sep 2026
A turbine being installed at Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm in the U.K.

Offshore wind may be good for the climate but can it be good for the ocean, too?

Sean Mowbray 10 Sep 2026
Xingu River stingray (Potamotrygon leopoldi).

‘Forgotten fauna’: Little known river sharks and rays face increased extinction risk

Malaka Rodrigo 10 Sep 2026
Tombong Barrow in his rice field rice at Kiang Jifarong, the Gambia. Image by Yero Bah for Mongabay.

As saltwater advances, Gambian farmers rethink how to protect rice fields

Yero S. Bah 10 Sep 2026
Raina accompanies her only son, Muhammad Raihan (5), who is undergoing treatment at the Banjarmasin Islamic Hospital after experiencing respiratory complaints amid the haze from forest and land fires

Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 10 Sep 2026
Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil. Illustration by Giovana Abreu/Intercept Brasil.

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil

Naira Hofmeister 10 Sep 2026
Log pile. Image by Martyn Fletcher via Flickr. CC BY 2.0.

The EU approved an antideforestation law. The US paper lobby sought to weaken it

Elizabeth Schell 10 Sep 2026
Pallas’s cat kittens in Mongolia. These small cats are vulnerable to declines in other burrowing species, as they can’t dig out holes for themselves that they use for shelter and to raise their young. Image by Sebastian Kennerknecht/Cat Expeditions

Nepal’s high-altitude wildernesses & wildlife are increasingly under threat (commentary)

Geraldine Werhahn, Sabita Gurung 9 Sep 2026
Mapuche Indigenous women prepare to commemorate the National Day of Indigenous People as part of celebrations of "We Tripantu," the Mapuche new year coinciding with the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, at the Original People's Ceremonial Park in Santiago, Chile, Monday, June 2023. Image by: AP Photo/Esteban Felix.

Indigenous land back in Chile brings mixed bag of environmental outcomes: Study

Aimee Gabay 9 Sep 2026
A woman cleans a blanket in algae-filled water on the banks of Wular Lake in Kashmir.

Kashmir’s water bodies have declined for decades. Is conservation keeping pace?

Hashim Quraishi 9 Sep 2026
A man travels along a street in his wheelchair in Freetown, Sierra Leone

When climate-related hazards rise, so do barriers for people with disabilities

Patricia Sia Ngevao 9 Sep 2026
Deep-sea octopus

Caribbean scientists document uncharted deep-sea waters in Trinidad and Tobago

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Sep 2026
Fishing vessels in Dunedin, New Zealand.

New Zealand put fishing boats under camera surveillance. Will it stay the course?

Edward Carver 9 Sep 2026
Donald Trump Jr. poses for photos following a morning of pheasant hunting at Hole in the Wall Lodge near Akron, Iowa, Saturday, October 27, 2017. Image by Jim Lee ©Sioux City Journal.

Vantara works with lobbyist tied to Trump Jr. and pro-hunting groups

Spoorthy Raman 9 Sep 2026

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