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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
Banner image of quiver trees by Leonie Joubert for Mongabay.

Succulents die off with expanding desert in South Africa and Namibia

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2025

Elevator to extinction (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 16 Apr 2025
An agamid lizard in a Chinese rainforest.

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

Sean Mowbray 15 Apr 2025
Red deer in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria.

How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts share

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2025
Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska.

Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?

Elizabeth Devitt 27 Mar 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025
In a vibrant green forestscape, a man in a blue t-shirt and gumboots stretches his arms across the dark bole of an enormous, extravagantly buttressed tree.. Image courtesy Andrea Bianchi.

‘3,000 year-old’ trees in Tanzania are new species

Ryan Truscott 20 Mar 2025
Image of a board at the entrance to Aravalli Biodiversity Park in New Delhi. Image by ccarlstead via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

New Delhi transforms degraded lands into biodiversity parks

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2025

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