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Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going away

David Helvarg 9 Sep 2025
In this file photo, men and women carry bananas and fish from the port in Leticia, Colombia.

How climate change could affect production of the world’s favorite fruit, the banana

Fernanda Biasoli 8 Sep 2025
The tropical royal flycatcher has suffered a decline in abundance. Image by Crístian Rincón Alvarez via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Tropical bird numbers plummet due to more days of extreme heat, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 5 Sep 2025
A school of barracuda in the Solomon Islands, a small island developing state in the Pacific Ocean.

Climate change is driving fish stocks from countries’ waters to the high seas: Study

Edward Carver 29 Aug 2025

Indigenous people gain formal role in Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization

Maxwell Radwin 28 Aug 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
Prayer flags in Mustang.

Escalation in tourism, climate change leaves Nepal’s Mustang in fragile state

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Aug 2025
Elephants are one of the species that have bounced back after Namibia’s independence in 1990.

Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

Petro Kotzé 21 Aug 2025
Sea fans in a coral reef in San Pedro, Belize. Image by Fabrice Dudenhofer / Ocean Image Bank.

Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs

Marco Lopez 19 Aug 2025

As climate change burdens grow, community mental health alarm bells ring

Petro Kotzé 14 Aug 2025
A barberfish (Johnrandallia nigrirostris) swimming through Pocillopora corals in Panama's Coiba National Park.

Microbiomes may be corals’ secret weapon against climate change: Study

Marlowe Starling 14 Aug 2025
Beach on Mioskon Island in Raja Ampat. Photo by Rhett Bulter/Mongabay.

Unrestricted funding is key for frontline conservation groups: Mongabay podcast

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2025
AnIndian pitta (Pitta brachyura)

Can rainwater-fed ponds revive Bangladesh’s hilly streams?

Sadiqur Rahman 1 Aug 2025
Person standing in front of a fallen tree.

Global warming is altering storms lightning, impacting tropical forests

Sean Mowbray 28 Jul 2025

Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future

Associated Press 21 Jul 2025
Sunset at Joshua Tree National Park

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

Maya L. Kapoor 17 Jul 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Restoration, protection aim to save Belize’s coral reef from extreme heat and disease

Marco Lopez 9 Jul 2025
Banner image of a flare stack by Yerevan Malarerva via Pexels.

UN rapporteur calls for ban on fossil fuel ads and criminalizing of disinformation

Kristine Sabillo 7 Jul 2025
Marbled white butterflies (Melanargia galathea)

Assisted colonization could be our ally in adapting to climate change, study suggests

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jul 2025
Beach on Mioskon Island in Raja Ampat. Photo by Rhett Bulter/Mongabay.

This nonprofit connects frontline conservationists with funders, catalyzing impact

Mike DiGirolamo 1 Jul 2025
Banner image of drought in Brazil in 2023. Image by AP Photo/Edmar Barros.

Vatican-backed report calls for global debt relief amid climate crisis

Kristine Sabillo 20 Jun 2025

Mounting risks due to climate change threaten Sri Lanka’s endemic species

Malaka Rodrigo 16 Jun 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the High-Level inaugural dinner of the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC).

‘Madness’: World leaders call for deep-sea mining moratorium at UN ocean summit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jun 2025
A snapper hunting silver fish in a mangrove patch.

One-two punch for mangroves as seas rise and cyclones intensify

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Jun 2025

Is rising CO2 really bad for the world’s drylands? Mongabay podcast probes

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2025
Fish in Samoa.

Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean

Claire Turrell 4 Jun 2025

Study identifies US regions that benefit birds, people & climate the most

Spoorthy Raman 30 May 2025
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

Kristine Sabillo 23 May 2025
A Schrenck’s bumblebee (Bombus schrencki) in Estonia.

Climate change now threatens thousands of species on Earth

Spoorthy Raman 22 May 2025
Smoke from a factory.

Ground-level ozone wreaks havoc on warming planet

Mongabay.com 9 May 2025
A fall armyworm rests upon a maize leaf it has just destroyed

Solutions needed as climate change & land use fuel global crop pest menace

Sean Mowbray 7 May 2025
Ecuador's Tapichalaca Reserve, created by Jocotoco Conservation Foundation.

How to conserve species in a much hotter world

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2025

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