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Reviving an ancient way of aquaculture at Hawaii’s Heʻeia fishpond

Shannon Brown 20 Apr 2020

Humans have been transforming Earth for thousands of years, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Aug 2019

For Ecuador’s Sápara, saving the forest means saving their language

Sarah Sax 2 Jul 2019

Fire, cattle, cocaine: Deforestation spikes in Guatemalan national park

Maxwell Radwin 21 Jun 2019

New ancient, giant carnivore described from bones in museum drawer

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019

New species of ancient human found in a Philippine cave

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Apr 2019
A life restoration of Hadropithecus stenognathus, an extinct species of lemur, based on fossil evidence. H. stenognathus is thought to have weighed between 27 and 35 kilograms (60 and 77 pounds), more than three times the size of the largest living species of lemur, the indri (Indri indri). Image by Smokeybjb via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Human population boom led to Madagascar’s megafauna extinction: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Apr 2019

Honduras aims to save vital wildlife corridor from deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2018

How the social sciences can help conservationists save species

Mike Gaworecki 18 Sep 2018

A Brazilian mourns what was lost in the National Museum fire

Peter Moon 6 Sep 2018
This Globo television screenshot shows the museum on fire from above.

Brazil mourns ‘incalculable loss’ in National Museum fire

Genevieve Belmaker 4 Sep 2018

Researchers are looking into the past to help ensure a future for tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jul 2018
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Conserving the World’s Remaining Intact Forests (commentary)

Michael Painter, David Wilkie 25 Jul 2017

Extinct mammoths and rhinos portend a grim future in a warming climate

John Cannon 28 Mar 2017

A Sumatran king’s 1,400-year-old vision for sustainable landscape planning

Taufik Wijaya 27 Mar 2017

Environmental costs, benefits and possibilities: Q&A with anthropologist Eben Kirksey

John Cannon 28 Feb 2017

Loving apes celebrated this Valentine’s Day

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2017

Pre-Columbian Amazon settlement primarily ate fish — more sustainable?

Claire Salisbury 8 Jul 2016
La Danta pyramid in the Mayan city of Mirador, as seen from a distance. Photo by Ronyrocael/Wikimedia Commons.

Controversial park plans in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 17 Jun 2016
Marta Álvarez inspects xate palm fronds harvested in the Uaxactún community forest concession. Photo by Sandra Cuffe.

Communities lead the way in rainforest conservation in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 9 Jun 2016

Successes and many challenges in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jun 2016

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Feb 2016

Lima to restore pre-Incan aqueducts to alleviate its water crisis

Ariel Mark 16 Apr 2015

Discovery of ‘Lost City’ spurs conservation pledge

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2015

Drones to scan the Amazon rainforest for hidden civilizations

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2015

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals

Kim Smuga-Otto 1 Dec 2014

It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2014

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

By the bones: herring populations were superabundant before commercial fisheries

Nicholas Barrett 9 Jun 2014

Through careful management, indigenous people have shaped Asian rainforests for 11,000 years

Loren Bell 28 Jan 2014

Madagascar occupied by humans 2,500 years earlier than previously thought

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2013

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