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Deadlocked plastic treaty talks will lead to renewed negotiations in 2025

Charles Pekow 10 Dec 2024
As he stepped carefully along the seafloor in the warm shallows of French Polynesia, I could hardly tell where the boy ended and the sea began. The pink whiptail ray swooped playfully around him and for a moment I could see clearly the path to coexistence between humanity and all the denizens of the sea.

How conservation photographer Cristina Mittermeier uses visual storytelling to inspire action

Rhett A. Butler 9 Dec 2024
People clean up plastic trash at a beach in Bali, Indonesia.

Plastic pollution pushing Earth past all nine planetary boundaries: Report

Alden Wicker 25 Nov 2024
A bottlenose dolphin.

Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systems

Sharon Guynup 21 Nov 2024
Salmon farms in Loch Ainort.

Scottish salmon farms seek growth despite mounting fish deaths and environmental concerns

Francesco De Augustinis 20 Nov 2024
Workers sort through discared plastic in Bangladesh.

The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say

Alden Wicker 19 Nov 2024
A woman pulls a large bag filled with plastic in a landfill in Bangladesh.

U.S. toughens stance on plastics production in run-up to key treaty summit

Charles Pekow 5 Nov 2024
A worker handling plywood sheets at Nature Flooring's factory in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian logging syndicate tied to major U.S. wood flooring supply chains

Gerald Flynn 21 Oct 2024
Workers in "Agbogbloshie," a site with electronic scrap material, in Ghana, 2011.

Ever-smarter consumer electronics push world toward environmental brink

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 30 Sep 2024
Shark and ray remains after their fins have been removed at Brondong Harbor, East Java.

Clock ticks on Indonesia shark skinners as predator population plunges

Asad Asnawi 25 Sep 2024
A steel production site in China.

Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions

Sean Mowbray 18 Sep 2024
Blast furnace in Duisburg, Germany.

Aluminum and steel take environment and health toll, even as demand grows

Sean Mowbray 17 Sep 2024
Patients from riverside communities along the Rio Negro, in Brazil's Amazonas, once again receiving care after two months of absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Polycrisis’ threatens planetary health; UN calls for innovative solutions

Sean Mowbray 8 Aug 2024
A shark in mangrove shallows. Image by Anita Kainrath/Ocean Image Bank.

Shark fin consumption wanes in Thailand, yet demand persists, report shows

Carolyn Cowan 29 Jul 2024
A trawler docked in a harbour in Scotland.

Bottom trawling in U.K.’s marine reserves, legally, is apparently a thing

Logan Rance 31 May 2024
Some of the artists with the art installation

Mongabay investigation is turned into art for World Press Freedom Day event

Karla Mendes 27 May 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024
Coffee beans on a plant.

As coffee expands in Bangladesh hills, conservationists worry about ecosystems

Abu Siddique 21 May 2024
Green Phenix artist Erwin Sprot with one of his creations, a human figure made with beer crown caps.

Can the circular economy help the Caribbean win its war against waste?

Sandra Weiss 20 May 2024
Fishermen in Dakar, Senegal.

To renew or not to renew? African nations reconsider EU fishing deals

Edward Carver 17 May 2024
Microplastics

Scientists explore nature’s promise in combating plastic waste

Claire Asher 8 May 2024
The plastic pollution art installation outside Ottawa's Shaw Centre where the summit took place.

At its fourth summit, 170 nations strive toward a global plastics treaty by 2025

Charles Pekow 7 May 2024

IKEA blamed for Romanian forest destruction

Alex Shaw 25 Apr 2024
Workers loading cement.

Circular solutions vital to curb enviro harm from cement and concrete

Sean Mowbray 18 Apr 2024

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2024
While India has the highest population of any country in the world, its per capita carbon emissions rank 110th globally.

Ecological overshoot is a ‘behavioral crisis’ & marketing is a solution: Study

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Mar 2024
A farmer shows an unpeeled corn.

Fertilizer management could reduce ammonia pollution from 3 staple crops: Study

Claire Asher 18 Mar 2024
A laborer at a brickfield in Amin Bazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

To save topsoil & reduce pollution, Bangladesh moves toward alternative bricks

Abu Siddique 4 Mar 2024
A salmon farm in Bugoynes, Finnmark, Norway.

Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish that could feed millions in Africa: Report

Francesco De Augustinis 27 Feb 2024
A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024
Tracegrow, a Finnish company, uses recycled batteries and industrial waste to create agricultural fertilizers.

Lessons from Finland’s attempt to transition to a circular economy

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2024
A herd of cows.

Agricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await

Claire Asher 16 Jan 2024

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