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Walruses playing in the waters around Svalbard, Norway.

10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2025

John Cannon 25 Dec 2025
Where cars go to die: an auto graveyard.

A ‘Life After Cars’ can provide huge human health and environmental benefits

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Dec 2025
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Plastic’s triumph was no accident. It built an economy addicted to throwaway living

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2025
Two members of the Prey Preah Roka Community Network – a grassroots activism group made up of communities around the wildlife sanctuary - document an illegally logged tree in the wildlife sanctuary. The grassroots group regularly patrol the wildlife sanctuary, documenting any illegal logging they come across by marking GPS coordinates, as well as taking a note of the species and diameter of the trees. Image by: Andy Ball / Mongabay.

New book unearths environmental crime’s psychological roots

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Oct 2025
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Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Sep 2025
Rainforest creek in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

The carbon market paradox: Steve Zwick on why financing forests is more complicated than it looks

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Sep 2025
Natalie Kyriacou holding a Tasmanian devil. Image courtesy of Natalie Kyriacou.

The honesty, humor and wonder of ‘Nature’s Last Dance,’ from Natalie Kyriacou

Mike DiGirolamo 26 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

Author Kim Stanley Robinson on climate fiction & navigating the climate crisis

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jun 2025
The Magpie River, known to the Indigenous Innu people as Mutehekau Shipu, in eastern Quebec, a region they know as Nitassinan. Image courtesy of Robert Macfarlane.

Some rivers have rights, but author Robert Macfarlane argues they’re also alive

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 24 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
White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. Iwate prefecture. These spires are estimated to be around 45 million years old, and form a natural version of a Japanese garden. This beach is part of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Photo by Mike DiGirolamo/Mongabay.

Kim Stanley Robinson on how his novel ‘Ministry for the Future’ holds lessons for the present

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Jun 2025
Dom Phillips interviewing Mariana Tobias, from the Macuxi people, at the Raposa Serra Do Sol Indigenous Territory, in northern Roraima state, in the Brazilian Amazon. © Nicoló Lanfranchi.

Dom Phillips’ posthumous book centers on collaborative work for saving the Amazon

Karla Mendes 30 May 2025
Sumaco volcano in Ecuador at sunset. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rethinking carbon: The climate movement needs to be a human one, says Paul Hawken

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 1 Apr 2025
Logging operation in the Amazonian state of Rondônia.

Clash of worlds for the Amazon’s Cinta Larga: Interview with author Alex Cuadros

Sam Cowie 5 Mar 2025
Kayapó children play in the Rio Pequeno, near their village.

10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2024

John Cannon 31 Dec 2024

A future where we might ‘get climate right’: A conversation with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Sep 2024
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It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous author Ailton Krenak

Jaqueline Sordi 30 Jul 2024

Reconciling conservation agriculture and agroforestry for sustainability

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Mar 2024

A particular agrarian reform process in Peru | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Feb 2024
A bear with its salmon catch.

New guidebook supports U.S. tribal nations in adopting rights-of-nature laws

Liz Kimbrough 8 Feb 2024
A storm in the Bolivian Chaco.

A coalition created by a demand for land is splintered by a competition for territory | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Feb 2024
Wetlands in the San Miguelito area, Bolivia.

How Bolivia pioneered agrarian reform in South America

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Jan 2024

INCRA as a regulatory agency | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Jan 2024

The dynamics of violence in pursuit of land in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Jan 2024
Earth from the International Space Station, showing nighttime lights over Japan on November 6, 2017. The lights are concentrated around three of the country’s major cities: Tokyo (top), Nagoya (middle), and Osaka (bottom). Image courtesy of NASA.

‘Not the End of the World’ book assumptions & omissions spark debate

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Jan 2024

10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2023

John Cannon 20 Dec 2023
A ranger planting a tree.

Wild by nature: Ecological restoration brings humanity and biodiversity together

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Dec 2023
Wolf. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Wolves through the ages: A journey of coexistence, conflict, and conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2023

Cultivation and processing of Amazonian coffees

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Nov 2023

Barely making it: A conversation with ‘Eight Bears’ author Gloria Dickie

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Sep 2023

Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: Public-private partnerships

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Sep 2023

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