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Dr Samuel Mathenge Ngatia, a veterinarian in the Gilgil District, Kenya, at work. Image courtesy of HealthforAnimals.

Better livestock health reduces carbon emissions (commentary)

Carel du Marchie Sarvaas 20 Dec 2022
Members of the Quilombolas community make their way across.

Video: Stolen Quilombola cemeteries in the Amazon, and the probe that revealed it all

Karla Mendes 20 Dec 2022
From center left to right: David Cooper, CBD Deputy Executive Secretary; COP 15 President Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, China; Xia Yingxian, China; and Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Executive Secretary. Image by UN biodiversity via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Nations adopt Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Latoya Abulu, Sahana Ghosh 20 Dec 2022

To cut emissions from cattle ranching, beef up the soil, study says

Shanna Hanbury 20 Dec 2022
A boat in a salt marsh.

Global study reveals widespread salt marsh decline

Sean Mowbray 19 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s Conservation Potential series investigates: Where do we need to protect biodiversity?

Liz Kimbrough 19 Dec 2022
Indigenous people in neighboring villages of Glar commune collect dead branches for firewood.

In Vietnam, a forest grown from the ashes of war falls to a resort project

Le Quynh 19 Dec 2022
Lulilan obscurus is a newly discovered scorpionfly from Nepal. Image courtesy of Rainer Willmann

‘Bizarre’ newly classified scorpionfly shines light on Nepal’s insect diversity

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Dec 2022

COP15 deal needs a ‘holistic approach to conservation’: Q&A with Joan Carling and Ramiro Batzin

Dimitri Selibas 16 Dec 2022

Emmanuel Macron’s “Biodiversity Credits”: What are we talking about? (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 16 Dec 2022
A dead dolphin washed up.

Black Sea dolphin deaths prompt ecocide allegations against Russia

Elizabeth Fitt 16 Dec 2022
Shanties stand along the bank of Buriganga River.

In Bangladesh, Ecologically Critical Areas exist only on paper

Abu Siddique 16 Dec 2022
The developers on Koh Toteung smothered the island's corals in sand while creating an artificial beach in June 2022.

Island shopping: Cambodian officials buy up the Cardamoms’ coast

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Vutha Srey 16 Dec 2022
Raimundo Serrão lights candles for their departed family members.

Major Brazil palm oil exporter accused of fraud, land-grabbing over Quilombola cemeteries

Karla Mendes 15 Dec 2022
New saplings grow on a rotting stump.

Japan’s example: Can forest planting reduce climate disaster risk?

Annelise Giseburt 15 Dec 2022
Blue-winged mountain tanager (Anisognathus somptuosus). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Bright, unique colors can put tropical songbirds at greater risk

Anna Marie Yanny 15 Dec 2022
Residents of Hanging Site.

In Sierra Leone’s fishing villages, a reality check for climate aid

Ashoka Mukpo 15 Dec 2022
The Long Xing 621, one of DOF’s boats, hauls up a shark.

Dalian Ocean Fishing, subject of Mongabay probe, now sanctioned by U.S.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Dec 2022
cocoa beans

Amazon-produced cacao offers climate solutions

Miguel Pinheiro 15 Dec 2022
Reginaldo Oliveira.

In Brazil’s agricultural heartland, rivers run dry as monoculture advances

Ana Ionova 14 Dec 2022
Community members restore coastal mangrove forests.

Nearly half of replanted trees die, but careful site selection can help

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 14 Dec 2022
Wildfires spark up throughout the summer and early fall in the western United States. (Image by David Mark from Pixabay)

Wildfires are climbing up the snowiest mountains of the western U.S.

Isabel Swafford 14 Dec 2022
Two western hoolock gibbons.

Trafficking and habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s western hoolock gibbons

Rafiqul Islam 14 Dec 2022
Satellite image of Mount Everest.

Airbus Foundation looks to put satellites to new biodiversity conservation uses

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2022
The blackened earth shows where banana trees used to be.

“Sinchiurco is coated with oil”: The Kichwa people going up against Petroecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 14 Dec 2022
First Nations drummers at U.N. COP15 Nature and Culture summit. Image by UN Biodiversity via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Amid struggling COP15 talks, Indigenous leaders from Canada offer some solutions

Chris Arsenault 14 Dec 2022
Liana

Lianas affect forest carbon uptake differently by region, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 14 Dec 2022
A school of fish.

Tech companies work to make fishing, aquaculture more sustainable

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Dec 2022
Karama River

Sulawesi hydropower dam could flood important archaeological sites

Agus Mawan 14 Dec 2022
Wildebeest in the savannas.

Counterintuitive: Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change

Tim Vernimmen 13 Dec 2022
Coastal peatlands in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Protecting wetlands is key to Indonesia hitting its climate goals, study says

Basten Gokkon 13 Dec 2022
A green lizard.

Threatened cloud forests key to billions of dollars worth of hydropower: Report

John Cannon 13 Dec 2022

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