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Coral bleaching events cause behavioral changes in key reef fish species

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2018
Layang Layang Atoll, Spratly Islands, South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

$10bn pledged in new commitments to protect the world’s oceans

Basten Gokkon 30 Oct 2018
Duong Le feeds shrimp on his intensive shrimp farm in Long An Province, Vietnam. Image by Zoe Osborne for Mongabay.

New climate change report highlights grave dangers for Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 30 Oct 2018

Documenting emperor penguin populations, a dispatch from Antarctica

Mike Gaworecki 30 Oct 2018

Global warming, human activities causing increased storm runoff, flash floods

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2018

With a feast of grubs, a tribe makes its case for forest stewardship

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Oct 2018
A coral reef system along the coast of northern Mozambique, one of nearly 300 coral reefs in the Western Indian Ocean examined by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and other organizations in a 10-year study that focused on coral diversity and rates from bleaching events. Photo credit: Emily Darling/WCS.

In Bali and beyond: An urgent focus on coral conservation (commentary)

Cristián Samper 29 Oct 2018

Tsetse fly numbers dwindle in the warming Zambezi Valley

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2018
Dienaba Diedhiou, an oyster collector in her 70s, poses with her grandchildren. Image by Jennifer O’Mahony for Mongabay.

Women’s work in Senegalese conservation includes exorcising demons

Jennifer O’Mahony 19 Oct 2018

Tropical deforestation now emits more CO2 than the EU

Rachel Fritts 18 Oct 2018
A flower in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Vietnamese environmental blogger ‘Mother Mushroom’ suddenly released from prison

Michael Tatarski 18 Oct 2018

In a first, DRC communities gain legal rights to forests

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2018

As climate change takes its toll, world leaders call for adaptation

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Oct 2018

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming: report

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2018
Bassirou Sambou, who heads the biodiversity monitoring section of Kawawana, stands in the ancient woodland surrounding his home. Image by Jennifer O’Mahony for Mongabay.

Watching the wildlife return: Q&A with a rural Senegalese river monitor

Jennifer O’Mahony 15 Oct 2018

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

Second environmental expert sued over testimony against palm oil firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2018

It’s déjà vu for orangutans, devastated by climate change and hunting once before

Linda Lombardi 11 Oct 2018
Elizabeth Azzuz and Margo Robbins, leaders of the Cultural Fire Management Council, have been helping Yurok Tribal members burn their land to improve the growth of basket materials and other traditional plants. Photo by Jane Braxton Little for Mongabay

Fire and agroforestry revive California indigenous groups’ traditions

Jane Braxton Little 11 Oct 2018
A fisherman pulls in a barracuda at sunset on the waters of the Casamance River, accompanied by an apprentice. Image by Jennifer O’Mahony for Mongabay.

Senegal: After reviving fish and forests, Jola villages tackle new threats

Jennifer O’Mahony 10 Oct 2018

Whales not enough sustenance for polar bears in fast-changing climate

Mongabay.com 10 Oct 2018

Loss of forest elephant may make Earth ‘less inhabitable for humans’

Emily Clark 8 Oct 2018

Frogs coping with fatal fungus in Panamanian forest, study finds

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018

Agreement bans commercial fishing across much of the Arctic, for now

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2018

‘Guardians of the forest:’ Indigenous peoples come together to assert role in climate stability

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2018

Kenya’s Mijikenda people revive sacred homesteads to protect the forest

Sophie Mbugua 1 Oct 2018

Scientists urge world leaders to scale up ambitions to protect global biodiversity

Mongabay.com 28 Sep 2018

Latam Eco Review: Shark ceviche, bat-friendly tequila, and protein-rich worms

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2018

The tropics are widening rapidly, but humans may not be entirely to blame — yet

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2018

Dress like a polar bear: learning to love muskoxen at 15 below zero

Gloria Dickie 25 Sep 2018

Scientists uncover what makes deep soil either a carbon sink or source

Mongabay.com 20 Sep 2018

Activists say Indonesia dragging its heels on indigenous rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Sep 2018

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