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DJ Edwin Carrasco, known in the artistic world as Tayta Bird, recording sounds of a rainforest.

DJs inspired by nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025
The Santa Marta Five. Image courtesy of Lisbeth Ayala.

Antimining activists cleared of ‘farce’ murder charges in El Salvador

Shanna Hanbury 1 Oct 2025

The world’s oceans face triple planetary crisis: Report

Bobby Bascomb 30 Sep 2025

Typhoon Bualoi death toll rises to 26 in Vietnam, with many missing

Associated Press 30 Sep 2025

The Indigenous tradition sustaining Nepal’s alpine pastures amid climate change

Mukesh Pokhrel 30 Sep 2025

Indonesia aims to redraw UNESCO site boundaries to allow geothermal projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Sep 2025
North Pacific Ocean temperature anomalies on September 28, 2025. Positive values denotes areas warmer than average; negative values means cooler than average. Image via NOAA Coral Reef Watch.

Northeast Pacific endures fourth-largest marine heat wave on record

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Sep 2025
Redwood forest in California. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Conservation in a hotter world

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2025
Indigenous organizations from the Amazon basin — representing more than 511 peoples — met in Brasilia on June 2 to discuss solutions they are implementing in their territories to address the global climate crisis. Image courtesy of Passu Creativa.

Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon: Voices from the land (commentary)

Oswaldo Muca Castizo, Patricia Suárez, Oriana Cortés Muñoz, Emil Sirén Gualinga 29 Sep 2025
Author David Helvarg among the kelp stipes off Anacapa Island in southern California’s Channel Islands.

California’s kelp forests struggle to recover a decade after collapse

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2025
President Lula calls on world leaders to support the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) at upcoming COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to advance climate action and conserve tropical forests.

Brazil leads push for novel forest finance mechanism ahead of COP30 summit

Justin Catanoso 26 Sep 2025
From left: A blue jay, a hybrid individual, a green jay. Images courtesy of Travis Maher/Cornell Lab of Ornithology/Macaulay Library; Brian Stokes; Dan O’Brien/Cornell Lab of Ornithology/Macaulay Library.

Grue jay or Bleen jay? Researchers confirm hybrid between blue and green jays

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Sep 2025
BR-364 paved the way for the widespread conversion of Amazon Rainforest in Rondônia into land for agriculture and cattle ranching. Image courtesy of Cleber Carvalho/Ministério dos Transportes.

Brazil’s first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China

André Schröder 25 Sep 2025

Indigenous groups criticize Ecuador’s $47 billion oil expansion plan in Amazon

Associated Press 25 Sep 2025
Maan Alima Tagnan under her gliricidia tree, one of the fertilizer trees she has planted in her field.

Burkina Faso’s women farmers reviving the land with fertilizer trees

Yvette Zongo 25 Sep 2025

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities

Liz Kimbrough 25 Sep 2025

China, world’s largest carbon polluting nation, announces new climate goal to cut emissions

Associated Press 24 Sep 2025
Johan Rockström presenting a planet boundaries talk at the 2025 Frontiers Planet Prize event in June.

Ocean acidification threatens planetary health: Interview with Johan Rockström

Julian Reingold 24 Sep 2025
Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.

Scientists weigh giant sea curtain to shield ‘Doomsday Glacier’ from melting

Gloria Dickie 24 Sep 2025
A fallen tree sits inside the park in Ho Man Tin area, as super typhoon Ragasa approaches in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong and south China after killing dozens in Taiwan and Philippines

Associated Press 24 Sep 2025
Chepsat sorting tomatoes to load on a vehicle for ferrying to the market in Marigat. Image by Gilbert Nakweya for Mongabay.

Permaculture promises peace, food, increased equality in Kenyan county

Gilbert Nakweya 24 Sep 2025
A beaver explores its new home at Tásmam Koyóm in 2023.

When does beaver reintroduction make sense?

John Cannon 23 Sep 2025

Southern China closes schools and cancels flights as Super Typhoon Ragasa nears

Associated Press 23 Sep 2025
Solar panels at Madhya Dhalpur school in Assam’s Darrang district. Image by Shailesh Shrivastava/Mongabay India.

From chalkboards to e-learning, solar boosts schooling in an Indian floodplain

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2025
Rainforest in Sulawesi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Harrison Ford says his generation “kicked the can down the road” on the environment

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Sep 2025

As UN climate talks loom in Brazil, many would-be participants fear they can’t afford to attend

Associated Press 22 Sep 2025

Global CO2 storage capacity may be drastically overstated, study finds

John Cannon 22 Sep 2025
Rainforest in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Setting the record straight on Jurisdictional REDD+: The case of Brazil

Luiza Muccillo, Daniel Nepstad, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Monica de los Rios, Thuanny Vieira 21 Sep 2025

Panama upwelling fails in 2025, threatening marine ecosystems

Bobby Bascomb 19 Sep 2025

The mire of Brazil’s BR-319 highway: Deforestation, development, and the banality of evil (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 19 Sep 2025
A Baird's tapir.

Animals that spread seeds are critical for climate solutions

Liz Kimbrough 19 Sep 2025
Island in the South Pacific, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rising seas won’t reduce ocean borders of small island nations, UN court rules

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2025

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