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Toby Kiers co-founded the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) where researchers are working to identify and map underground mycorrhizal fungal networks.

Mapping underground fungal networks: Interview with SPUN’s Toby Kiers

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Feb 2026
Open burning of plastic in a community in Guiyu, China. This practice is fast becoming a common way to dispose of plastic and other waste.

Plastic household waste burned as fuel on rise in Global South, risking health

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2026
A root nodule on a legume tree

‘Blew us away’: Researchers find nitrogen boost spurs faster tropical forest growth

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 Jan 2026
Mike Heusner. Photo courtesy of Caribbean Lifestyle Belize

Mike Heusner, steward of Belize’s waters, has died, aged 86

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2026

Nitrogen may turbocharge regrowth in young tropical forest trees

Bobby Bascomb 15 Jan 2026

Biologist kidnapped in Mexico

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2026
Guatemala accounted for 13% of the environmental defenders killed or disappeared across the world in 2024, as documented by Global Witness. Image courtesy of the Guatemalan President’s Office.

Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution

Gonzalo Ortuño López 2 Jan 2026
A baird's tapir goes for dip. Image by Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation climbs in Central America’s largest biosphere reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Dec 2025
Joann Andrews

Joann Andrews, a patient force behind Yucatán’s protected landscapes

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2025
Jay M Savage. Screenshot from an interview with OTS.

Jay M. Savage, witness to disappearing frogs and builder of tropical science

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2025
Mongabay contributor Glòria Pallarès won the ACE Award in Doha, Qatar. Image courtesy of the ACE Award.

Mongabay contributor Glòria Pallarès wins top anti-corruption reporting award

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2025
Monkeys traverse unprotected electric lines in Costa Rica, a situation that leads to deaths of many monkeys, sloths, kinkajous and more. Image courtesy of International Animal Rescue.

Costa Rica’s ‘shocking’ wildlife crisis: Nation must move to prevent animal electrocution (commentary)

Elena Kukovica 17 Dec 2025
A cordycep dealer.

The vanishing pharmacy: How climate change is reshaping traditional medicine

Liz Kimbrough 15 Dec 2025

Stricter rules adopted to protect sloths from pet trade and selfie tourism

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2025

Forest loss, fires and invasions soar in Nicaraguan wildlife refuge, watchdog warns

Gonzalo Ortuño López 3 Dec 2025
Monarch butterfly resting on a plant. Photo by José López-García

Saving critical winter habitat for monarch butterflies may depend on buy-in from their human neighbors

Claudia Steiner 3 Dec 2025
Sorting of plastic bottles collected in Costa Rica for analysis. Photo by Juan Manuel Muñoz-Araya.

Lost at sea, found in Latin America: the journeys of discarded plastic bottles

Olivia Maule 2 Dec 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Honduras’ presidential election?

Maxwell Radwin 26 Nov 2025

Central America’s forests are crucial for migrating birds: Study

Bobby Bascomb 26 Nov 2025
Nassau grouper.

Study finds important Nassau grouper spawning site in Belize near collapse

Marco Lopez 20 Nov 2025

Gold mining exposes Indigenous women in Nicaragua to high mercury levels

Aimee Gabay 20 Nov 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Are Belize’s fisheries policies delivering?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2025

In Honduras, local communities miss out on benefits of large-scale renewables

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 Nov 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2025

Nuns, scientists & microchips: An alliance to save Mexico’s achoque salamanders

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2025
Soldiers from the PROLANSATE Foundation on patrol

Why is protecting this Honduran lagoon so dangerous? 

Fritz Pinnow, Sam Lee 22 Oct 2025

Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2025

In Panama, poison dart frog move brings hope amid amphibians’ fight with fungus

Sam Meadows 8 Oct 2025
Cassandra Garduño harvests kale in her chinampa.

Saving Mexico City’s ancient floating farms

Lucia Torres, Associated Press 8 Oct 2025
The Santa Marta Five. Image courtesy of Lisbeth Ayala.

Antimining activists cleared of ‘farce’ murder charges in El Salvador

Shanna Hanbury 1 Oct 2025
Banner image: Arturo Gómez-Pompa. Courtesy of Universidad

Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2025

Panama upwelling fails in 2025, threatening marine ecosystems

Bobby Bascomb 19 Sep 2025

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