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A woman sits under a tree surrounded by dry waste in East Java.

Burning, burying and banning: Indonesia’s cities struggle to manage their garbage

Jeff Hutton 23 Jul 2025
With support from the DGM, Indigenous Cibarani people from Indonesia secured an official customary forest designation, enabling them to improve their livelihoods. Photo by CIF.

How a quiet climate finance model is funneling money directly to communities

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2025
Mangrove forest in the Philippines. Image courtesy of the National Blue Carbon Action Partnership (NBCAP).

Blue carbon ecosystems are key for protecting the Philippines from climate shocks (commentary)

Jurgenne H. Primavera, Rona Joy Loma, Emily Richardson 22 Jul 2025
NASA's Artemis program plans to return humans to the moon, with the U.S. government agency working with SpaceX to develop the company's Starship human landing system.

Commercial space race comes with multiple planetary health risks

Sean Mowbray 22 Jul 2025

Hope and frustration as Indonesia pilots FSC’s logging remedy framework

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jul 2025
Thai authorities seized more than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of ivory hidden in luggage shipped out from Congo to Laos via Bangkok in 2015.

Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2025
Camera-trap image of the caracal spotted in Kirthar National Park. The cat appeared only once during the span of two weeks of camera trapping.

In rare triumph, camera traps snap endangered wildcats in Pakistan

Sean Mowbray 21 Jul 2025
Mamiraua reserve. Image courtesy of Thiago A. Lacerda via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Community patrols can slash environmental crime by 80% (commentary)

Caetano Franco 21 Jul 2025

Strengthening global forest certification and delivering remedy: Interview with FSC’s Subhra Bhattacharjee

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Jul 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

From deforestation to renewal: Why reforestation isn’t just about trees

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Jul 2025

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

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jul 2025
An Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).

Evolution in overdrive as Baltic cod shrink due to fishing pressure, study shows

Edward Carver 18 Jul 2025

Billions spent, biodiversity declines — GEF insists it remains fit for purpose

David Akana 18 Jul 2025
The StAR Project, which has been breeding and releasing Indo-Pacific leopard sharks in Indonesia, has now opened a nursery in Phuket.

Conservationists raise sharks to restore reefs in waters around Thailand

Claire Turrell 18 Jul 2025
A male proboscis monkey with its characteristic long nose. The species is classified as endangered and is already threatened by habitat destruction, wildfires and hunting.

Study finds worrying uptick in proboscis monkey trade in Indonesia

Spoorthy Raman 18 Jul 2025

Indonesia moves to revise sea sand export policy after court ruling

Basten Gokkon, M Ambari 18 Jul 2025
Illegal and unregulated gold mining in the La Pampa area near Puerto Maldonado, Peru. Photo courtesy Jason Houston/Upper Amazon Conservancy.

In the Andes, decentralization fails to address environmental harm

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Jul 2025
Greenpeace Brazil took part in the Climate March in São Paulo, protesting against Bill 2159/2021 — widely known as the "devastation bill." The demonstration brought thousands of people to the streets, marching from Avenida Paulista to Favela do Moinho, in response to the bill’s threat of weakening Brazil’s environmental licensing laws. Image © Tuane Fernandes / Greenpeace.

Brazil’s Congress passes ‘devastation bill’ in major environmental setback

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Jul 2025
Sunset at Joshua Tree National Park

In a warming world, can California save its Joshua trees?

Maya L. Kapoor 17 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka’s plant messiah spreads optimism for biodiversity & conservation

Rohan Pethiyagoda 17 Jul 2025
A waste site near Mombasa, Kenya. Separating plastic waste from growing mountains of domestic trash is a huge hurdle facing the world’s communities.

Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts

Sean Mowbray 17 Jul 2025
JBS founder José Batista Sobrinho (center) flanked by his sons, Joesley (taking a selfie) and Wesley (clapping), waves from the podium after ringing the New York Stock Exchange opening bell, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Richard Drew.

Now on Wall Street, JBS eyes growth amid scrutiny on deforestation & graft

Carla Ruas 17 Jul 2025
Area of burned forest in ​​the city of Apuí, Amazonas state. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real via Wikimedia Commons. (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires

Lucas Berti 16 Jul 2025
A lion in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.

From protection to control : Van Beemen and Kaplin discuss conservation in Africa

Elodie Toto 16 Jul 2025
The truncate-toed chorus frog is a tree-dwelling species endemic to the Philippines with four recognized subspecies. They have expanded toe discs, called pads, on their toes.

Deforestation in the Philippines may have caused infertile hybrids of endemic frogs, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 16 Jul 2025
Sahara mustard plants in California.

In California, an invasive mustard is destabilizing desert plant communities

Maya L. Kapoor 16 Jul 2025

Global tracking study reveals marine megafauna hotspots lie largely unprotected

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 Jul 2025
Butterflies in the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve in Ecuador’s Amazon.

Landmark Indigenous land title in Ecuador protected area still in limbo

Latoya Abulu, John Cannon 16 Jul 2025
The Wilderness Project team stops to conduct research on the island, surrounded by the waterberry trees’ fluted trunks.

Bicolored waterberry: The overlooked tree shaping Zambia’s rivers

Ryan Truscott 16 Jul 2025
Ornithologist Hemanta Dhakal and his daughter look towards the runway of the Pokhara International Airport from their home in Majheripatan. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/ Mongabay.

In Nepal’s Pokhara, a lone rooftop vigil helps keep vultures and planes safe from harm

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Jul 2025
A view from Saint George on the island of Antigua and Barbuda. Image by docshiznit via Wikimedia Commons.

Small island nations provide big environmental solutions but need finance partners (commentary)

Gaston Browne 15 Jul 2025
Boat in the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve in Ecuador's Amazon. Image by Ranil Wijeyratne via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Landmark Indigenous land title in Ecuadorian Amazon reserve mired in controversy

Latoya Abulu, John Cannon 15 Jul 2025

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