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Farmers tend cropland in Mozambique. The 2015-2016 El Niño brought prolonged drought to southern Africa, reducing crop yields and impacting food security for millions of people. As climate change-induced drought intensifies, repeated annual crop losses lead to long-term economic hardships, impacting mental health including depression and anxiety, a set of conditions that has led to higher suicide rates among farmers in southern Africa.

Smallholder farmers struggle on El Niño frontline; will the world help?

Sean Mowbray 12 Nov 2026
Canoes in an inlet in Upemba National Park. Image by Justin Sullivan via Forgotten Parks.

Communities around DRC’s Upemba National Park say conservation comes at a cost

Dan Yessa 12 Nov 2026
A man working separating coconuts from their skin in Bến Tre province.

Vietnam’s freshwater obsession leaves decades-long scars for Mekong Delta farmers

Nguyen Tra My 12 Nov 2026
Long-tailed macaques being held at Sookvannaseng Integrated's breeding farm in Bolikhamsai province, Laos. Image supplied by source.

Wildlife trade regulator CITES lifts sanctions against Laos, prompting conservation concerns

Gerald Flynn 12 Nov 2026
Cape fur seal glides through a kelp forest. Image courtesy of Helen Walne / Sea Change Project.

To boost conservation of kelp forests, start by naming them (commentary)

Swati Thiyagarajan, Helen Walne 12 Nov 2026

‘Developed nations are not honoring their commitments’: DRC negotiator on biodiversity finance

Latoya Abulu 11 Nov 2026
A tree in Caxiuanã National Forest in Pará.

How would the Amazon react if it dried up? A 25-year-old field study has the answer

Luís Patriani 11 Nov 2026
Neil Vora

Epidemiologist Neil Vora joins Mongabay’s board as it expands global reach and planetary health coverage

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2026
A 126-meter (413-foot), Dutch-flagged industrial fishing vessel in the Flanders Banks, a set of sandbanks off France and Belgium, in November 2024. There are two MPAs in Flanders Bank; both allow industrial fishing. Image © Lorraine Turci/Greenpeace.

Audit says Europe’s marine protected areas failing as 2030 deadline looms

Edward Carver 11 Nov 2026
The oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), a species classified as critically endangered by the IUCN.

US companies apply to explore deep-sea mining in area bordering Pacific island states

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Nov 2026
One of the Watchers, or Tunyiungi va Lisima, poling a dugout on one of the region’s freshwater lakes, which local tradition considers the lakes to be sacred. Image courtesy of Kostadin Luchansky/AIB/NGOWP.

Angolan hunters protect Southern Africa’s internationally important wetland

Ryan Truscott 11 Nov 2026
Daybreak over a tributary of the Amazon River. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Brazil’s post-election challenge: What President Lula needs to change to keep the Amazon forest standing (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 11 Nov 2026
Firefighting at Fingal, Tasmania in 2020.

Testing the next generation of wildfire tech: Interview with XPRIZE Foundation’s Andrea Santy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Nov 2026

US brand StarKist suspends tuna sourcing from vessels accused of exploiting Indonesian fishers

Basten Gokkon 11 Nov 2026
Pangolin scales totaling 57 kilograms (123 pounds) seized from a perpetrator in South Kalimantan.

Investigation continues in Indonesia after first conviction in 3-ton pangolin trafficking case

Anggita Raissa 11 Nov 2026
Proboscis monkey

Rising seas could reshape habitats for more than 40% of world’s land vertebrates

Carolyn Cowan 11 Nov 2026
A clay robber frog seen near the Boracéia Biological Station in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Investigation: Fungus may have killed Atlantic Forest amphibians in the 1970s and ’80s

Sean Mowbray 10 Nov 2026
An elephant in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Beat it: Den Staat farmers in South Africa use drumming and fire to deter elephants

Bernard Chiguvare 10 Nov 2026
Two women walk together at a marathon race.

Is your gym attire setting you up for health problems?

Ouma Elvine Tina 10 Nov 2026
Kazi Zenifar Azmiri participates in a duck satellite-tagging camp at Tanguar Haor, Bangladesh.

‘You need strong willpower’: IUCN’s Kazi Zenifar Azmiri on being a woman wildlife biologist

Usraat Fahmidah 10 Nov 2026
A COMMUS mining pit near the home of a resident in Kolwezi. Image by Didier Makal/Mongabay.

DRC residents sue Chinese mining company over alleged pollution in Kolwezi

Anne Nzouankeu, Will Mbuyu 10 Nov 2026
Seaweed farmer Jonalyn Rentuaya holds a line of dried seaweed. While many community members have left since the spill, Rentuaya remains, saying she is hopeful the sea can be rehabilitated. Image by Pippo Carmona for Mongabay.

A year after a wastewater spill in the Philippines, communities fight to save a dying sea

Pippo Carmona 10 Nov 2026
Rufous-naped Bellbird (Aleadryas rufinucha) in a tree in Papua New Guinea.

El Niño’s hidden toll on trees emerges years later in Papua New Guinea rainforest

Matthew Burkhart 9 Nov 2026
Forestry official looking at Asian elephant herd, Sarpang, Bhutan.

Rangers’ role must be built into biodiversity conservation commitments (commentary)

Madhu Rao, Nik Sekhran 9 Nov 2026

Sri Lankan wildlife photographer Ravindralal Anthonis urges respect for elephants over good shots

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Nov 2026
A house crow in Pokhara, Nepal.

Human-crow relations show strain as Kathmandu observes annual day of the crow

Gobinda Pokharel 9 Nov 2026
Squid drying in the sun in South Korea.

South Korea’s beloved squid may vanish from its waters due to climate change, heat waves

Kelly Kasulis-Cho 9 Nov 2026

Peru’s drive for critical minerals threatens a disappearing glacier

Euan Wallace 6 Nov 2026
Large male loggerhead sea turtle, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

As loggerhead turtles spread west, Mediterranean beach resorts learn to share the sand

Manuela Callari, Anna Napolitano 6 Nov 2026
In Brazil, the country’s first urban yellow fever outbreak in more than 80 years was triggered by record drought, along with deforestation and other land use change.

Drought driven by climate change is redefining how disease spreads, study finds

Adam Litchkofski 6 Nov 2026

‘Stringing me along’: After 7 years, trial in Indigenous forest guardian killing delayed again

Karla Mendes 6 Nov 2026
Fishmonger at the Mercado Central de Atarazanas in Málaga, Spain. Image by Rolf Schotsch via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Mediterranean fisheries commission adopts species management plans but punts on deep-sea protections

Francesco De Augustinis 6 Nov 2026

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