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A deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority

Sarah Brown 30 Dec 2024
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

The Amazon in 2025: Challenges and hopes as the rainforest takes center stage

Alexandre de Santi 30 Dec 2024

Tortoise protection culture prompts efforts to curb trafficking in Madagascar

Carolyn Cowan 30 Dec 2024
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog

IPBES report highlights Indigenous & local knowledge as key to ‘transformative change’

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 27 Dec 2024

How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation

Robert Bociaga 27 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024

Coffee agroforestry promises a path to EUDR compliance, but challenges remain

Marina Martinez 26 Dec 2024

Indonesia risks carbon ‘backfire’ with massive deforestation for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Dec 2024

Experts question benefits of Colombian forestation project led by top oil trader

Carla Ruas 23 Dec 2024

The state of carbon markets in 2024

John Cannon 23 Dec 2024

Brazil’s big push for tropical forest funding gets support for 2025 debut

Jenny Gonzales 23 Dec 2024

Across continents, Mongabay fellows share insights from reporting in the field

Michael Esquer, Swati Thapa, Tarinipre Francis 23 Dec 2024

Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Dec 2024

Amazon’s Boiling River gives scientists a window into the rainforest’s future

Liz Kimbrough 20 Dec 2024
The world’s oceans naturally absorb vast amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Electrochemical removal of ocean CO2 offers potential — and concerns

Sean Mowbray 20 Dec 2024
The Hadong power plant in South Korea co-fires coal with woody biomass, allowing it to claim it is reducing emissions under the UN loophole.

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Annelise Giseburt 20 Dec 2024
The Dayak Pitap community lives dependent on nature.

Indonesia’s Indigenous communities sidelined from conservation

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Dec 2024
Residents from Gwadar look on the sipping development at the coast.

Balochistan’s Gwadar city sits at the crossroads of climate and conflict

Waqas Alam Angaria 20 Dec 2024
Members of the Nadupoi Women Group gather for a group photo in Olooloitikosh village, Kajiado, Kenya. Image by Juliet Ojwang for Mongabay.

From Bhutan to Nigeria & Kenya, women endure climate change differently than men

Choki Wangmo, Juliet Akoth Ojwang, Karen Coates, Tarinipre Francis 20 Dec 2024

Nepal created a forest fund to do everything; five years on it’s done nothing

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Dec 2024

Indonesia reforestation plan a smoke screen for agriculture project, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Dec 2024
Young giraffe in Uganda. Image by Rod Waddington / Flickr.

We must prioritize rangeland conservation for planetary health and biodiversity (commentary)

Dr. Igshaan Samuels 16 Dec 2024

Grassroots efforts sprout up to protect Central America’s Trifinio watershed

Maxwell Radwin 16 Dec 2024
Second edition YOFAFA Conference in Yaounde. Image by Leocadia Bongben.

Young people in Africa call for a fair increase in funding for climate adaptation

Leocadia Bongben 16 Dec 2024
Timber illegally extracted from the Amazon by Ricardo Stoppe's group was sold to the USA and Europe.

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Dec 2024
A Climeworks employee stands next to the company’s Mammoth facility in Iceland.

Direct air capture climate solution faces harsh criticism, steep challenges

Sean Mowbray 13 Dec 2024

Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet

Sarah Brown 13 Dec 2024

Climate change fuels African floods that hit harder in vulnerable regions

Fanta Mabo 13 Dec 2024

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024

Andes glacier melt threatens Amazon’s rivers & intensifies droughts

Amanda Magnani 11 Dec 2024

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2024

‘Bear’s-eye camera’ reveals elusive Andean bear cannibalism and treetop mating

Liz Kimbrough 6 Dec 2024

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