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Colorado's East Troublesome Fire, on October 22, 2020, which jumped the Continental Divide and eventually became Colorado's largest fire on record, at nearly 200,000 acres. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Rocky Mountains are burning more now than ever, and it could get worse

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jun 2021
Proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Scientists call for solving climate and biodiversity crises together

John Cannon 14 Jun 2021

U.N. declares decade of ecosystem restoration to ‘make peace with nature’

Liz Kimbrough 11 Jun 2021

Indonesia to retire coal-fired power plants while also adding more

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jun 2021

New Attenborough film sounds alarm on planetary boundaries, but offers hope

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2021

On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge

Jacopo Pasotti 2 Jun 2021

The key to averting environmental catastrophe is right beneath our feet

Claire Asher 1 Jun 2021

Lean times leave orangutans wasting away. Habitat loss makes things worse

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2021

In Pennsylvania, agroforestry holds a key to cleaning up waterways and Chesapeake Bay

Sarah Derouin 27 May 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 25 May 2021
A member of the Indigenous Tikuna nation paddling a dugout canoe on a tributary of the Amazon in Colombia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Protected areas now cover nearly 17% of Earth’s surface: U.N. report

John Cannon 20 May 2021

Indonesian president slammed for ‘wait-and-see’ approach on climate action

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 May 2021

Click here to plant a tree: Q&A with Ecosia’s Pieter van Midwood

Liz Kimbrough 18 May 2021

In Sri Lanka, here be dragonflies and damselflies like nowhere else (Commentary)

Amila Prasanna Sumanapala 18 May 2021

To save chocolate’s future, ‘start now and go big’ on agroforestry

Cathy Watson 17 May 2021

How to pick a tree-planting project? Mongabay launches transparency tool to help supporters decide

Liz Kimbrough 17 May 2021

An owl not seen in over a century makes a brief return — then vanishes again

Romi Castagnino 13 May 2021

Ever-evolving Montreal Protocol a model for environmental treaties

Jane Palmer 12 May 2021

Indonesia says no new coal plants from 2023 (after the next 100 or so)

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 May 2021

ADB declares coal exit in Asia Pacific, but gas remains in play

Imelda Abano 11 May 2021
Planted mangrove seedlings. Image by Irwandi wancaleu via Wikimedia Commons (CC 4.0)

The climate crisis solutions we need are already here (commentary)

Steve Trent 10 May 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

Sri Lanka to ban palm oil imports, raze plantations over environmental concerns

Malaka Rodrigo 9 May 2021

New paper urges shift to ‘nature positivity’ to restore Earth

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 May 2021

Belgium-sized swath of forest faces the chop from Indonesian palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2021

The HFC challenge: Can the Montreal Protocol continue its winning streak?

Jane Palmer 5 May 2021

‘Zero illegal deforestation’ – One more Bolsonaro distortion (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 May 2021

“How do we manage fisheries in the midst of climate change?” Q&A with EDF’s Eric Schwaab

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 May 2021

Criticizing Brazil over Amazon conservation will likely backfire (commentary)

Andrea Garcia, Gustavo Macedo 3 May 2021

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

Gloria Dickie 29 Apr 2021

Scientists warn of looming water crisis with millions of wells at risk

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2021

At Vietnam’s southern tip, mangroves defend the land from the encroaching sea

Michael Tatarski 28 Apr 2021

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