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

Spoorthy Raman 30 May 2025

US pioneers restoration of deep water corals damaged by country’s worst oil spill

Liz Kimbrough 30 May 2025
Under the new rules, the Brumadinho mining dam, which collapsed in 2019, killing 272 people, would be licensed under a simplified process. Image © Fernanda Ligabue/Greenpeace.

Ahead of hosting COP30, Brazil is set to weaken environmental licensing

Fernanda Wenzel 29 May 2025
Residents of the village of Baraca gather at a mangrove restoration site.

Guinea-Bissau’s grassroots efforts offer a blueprint for global mangrove restoration (commentary)

Abdoulaye Ndiaye 29 May 2025
Polar bears near Churchill. Image by Kt Miller / polarbearsinternational.org.

Manage people more and bears less, say Indigenous elders in world’s ‘polar bear capital’

Gabe Allen 29 May 2025
IBAMA raid to fight illegal mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land in Roraima in December 2023. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

Amazon illegal gold mines drive sex trafficking in the Brazil-Guyana border

Elizabeth Oliveira 29 May 2025
Author Sangeeta Waldron at a book launch event. Image courtesy of Sangeeta Waldron.

Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes profiled in new book on climate leaders

Mongabay.com 27 May 2025
Future of Mexican communal land in limbo as mining company overstays agreement

Future of Mexican communal land in limbo as mining company overstays agreement

Aimee Gabay 27 May 2025
Banner image: Schoolchildren walk to school in Niamey, Niger in 2013.

Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education

Victoria Schneider 26 May 2025
Banner image: The Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa captured by the Pléiades Neo satellite. Image courtesy of the Airbus Foundation and Connected Conservation Foundation.

‘Satellites for Biodiversity’ upgrades with new projects and launches insight hub

Kristine Sabillo 26 May 2025

Indigenous Bajo suffer child deaths & toxic sludge amid green energy push

Riza Salman 24 May 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Suriname’s upcoming elections?

Maxwell Radwin 23 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
Residents have started planting oil palms up to 30 hectares (74 acres) spread across several villages on Enggano Island.

Community-based biofuels offer ‘sensible’ alternative to palm oil for Indonesia, analysis shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2025
On the left, rainforest deforestation for an oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia. On the right, soy fields next to Gran Chaco forest in Bolivia. Images by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU anti-deforestation law could overlook big violators, NGO warns

Shanna Hanbury 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
Drone view of flooded forest in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

On Amazon destruction, will Brazil President Lula’s ‘disinformation space’ be penetrated? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 May 2025
A forest fire burns in Valparaíso, Chile, in February 2024. Image courtesy of the Gobierno de Chile via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 CL)

Tropical forest loss hit new heights in 2024; fire a major driver in Latin America

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 May 2025
Oils extracted from macaúba palm fruits can be used in a wide range of industrial processes, including foods cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Brazil bets on macaúba palm to make renewable diesel and aviation biofuel

Sean Mowbray 21 May 2025

Extreme heat, violent storms: How Rio de Janeiro is facing its new climate reality

Ambiental Media 21 May 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

As Indonesia phases out coal, what happens to people & environments left behind?

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 May 2025

How extreme droughts could redefine the future of Amazonian fish

Tiago Mota e Silva 19 May 2025
Jandhen Gurung, 82, with her juniper leaf collection. Image by Durga Rana Magar.

In Nepal, centuries-old Buddhist incense tradition faces overharvesting, climate threats

Durga Rana Magar 16 May 2025

Republic of Congo’s gold mining boom undermines conservation efforts

Mongabay.com 16 May 2025
An okapi at Bronx Zoo in the United States. Image by Ryan Schwark via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Endangered Species Day: Three animals on the path to recovery

Shanna Hanbury 16 May 2025
A man herds goats in the town of Gotu in Isiolo county, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Kenyan soil carbon project suspended for a second time

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2025
Fishers camp in grass shelters at Mbenje Island, which is located 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the beachshore of Lake Malawi, in a cluster of fivesix islands. – Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Community-led system boosts fisheries in a corner of fast-depleting Lake Malawi

Mongabay.com 14 May 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Flawed energy road map may block Indonesia’s coal exit, critics warn

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 May 2025

Even in intact Amazon forests, climate change affects bird populations: Study

Suzana Camargo 14 May 2025
Banner image of oil palm plantation in Malaysia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Study offers new tool to compare environmental impacts of crops

Kristine Sabillo 13 May 2025
Oil industry giants like Chevron, BP, Shell and TotalEnergies are planning to refit existing oil refineries or build new biofuel plants to produce renewable diesel.

As renewable diesel surges, sustainability claims are deeply questioned

Sean Mowbray 12 May 2025

A migrating flycatcher returning to the same Sri Lankan garden sparks interest in birders

Malaka Rodrigo 11 May 2025

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