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As populations grow, how will thirsty cities survive their drier futures?

Petro Kotzé 18 Aug 2021

Scientists, communities battle against Philippine land reclamation project

Aprille Roselle Vince Juanillo 17 Aug 2021

Black Death aside, we know surprisingly little about rodents and disease

Liz Kimbrough 9 Aug 2021
Prolonged dry conditions have caused the worst drought in central and southern Brazil in almost a century. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on NASA's Landsat 8 captured an image of Lago das Brisas on the Paranaíba River on June 17, 2021.

Lessons from Brazil’s São Paulo droughts (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 30 Jul 2021

As humans close in on their habitat, crocodiles in the Philippines snap back

Chelsy Mae Abdulmuti 20 Jul 2021

‘I am Indigenous, not pardo’: Push for self-declaration in Brazil’s census

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Rio de Janeiro, Indigenous people fight to undo centuries of erasure

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Boa Vista, Indigenous Brazilians retake their identity through education

Nayra Wladimila 29 Jun 2021

A startup deploys black soldier flies in the Philippines’ war on waste

Bong S. Sarmiento 25 Jun 2021

In Brazil’s most Indigenous city, prejudice and diversity go hand in hand

Ana Amelia Hamdan 22 Jun 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

Ecuadoran water fund transforms consumers into conservationists

Dimitri Selibas 4 May 2021

The perils of relying on high-tech networks in a warmer world (commentary)

Simon Pollock 25 Feb 2021
black-tailed godwits (Limosa limosa) in a fight for their territory in Mangalajodi Wetlands (Chilika - Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention), Odisha, India. By Arijit Mondal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers urge better protection as wetlands continue to vanish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Feb 2021

Whale shark stranding points to silting of Indonesia’s Kendari Bay

Ian Morse 13 Jan 2021
Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

How to turn climate ambitions into reality: Q&A with Nigel Topping

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2021

The promise of ‘bird-friendly’ cities: Q&A with author Timothy Beatley

John Cannon 30 Nov 2020
Grey-headed fish eagle. Image by David Li.

Singapore embarks on a million-tree planting spree to protect its future

Claire Turrell 9 Oct 2020

Missing mangroves are root of contention over Philippine airport project

Leilani Chavez, Susan Claire Agbayani 17 Sep 2020

Discovery of threatened species drives bid to protect Vietnam forest

Michael Tatarski 1 Sep 2020
Washington Square Park is another place to see birds in NYC.

Finding nature in cities

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jul 2020

As lockdown ends, Manila’s dirty air is back. It doesn’t have to stay

Mavic Conde 19 Jun 2020

Nature needs cities, and cities need nature (commentary)

Johan Robinson 15 Jun 2020

Insects decline on land, fare better in water, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 8 May 2020

A watery onslaught from sea, sky and land in the world’s fastest-sinking city

Johan Augustin 27 Apr 2020

A vital mangrove forest hidden in Vietnam’s largest city could be at risk

Michael Tatarski 21 Apr 2020

Indonesia’s new capital in the Bornean jungle on hold amid COVID-19 crisis

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2020

‘Intense’ human pressure is widespread among terrestrial vertebrates, study finds

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2020

Vervet monkeys thrive despite habitat loss in South Africa

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2019
Dry riverbed. Image by Dellane Masiya Mhlanga for Mongabay.

Water flowing up the mountain: Development devours forest reserve in Zambia

Carien Du Plessis 4 Dec 2019

How cities can lead the fight against climate change using urban forestry and trees (commentary)

Chad Papa, Lauren Cooper 27 Nov 2019

Bali mangrove bay is now a conservation zone, nixing reclamation plan

Basten Gokkon 11 Oct 2019

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