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Asian golden cats are cute but don't make for good pets, according to experts. Image courtesy of Allwetter Zoo.

Indonesian company seeks CITES approval to breed and sell rare Asian golden cats

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman 5 Nov 2026
A koala.

‘Historic win’: Australian state approves national koala park despite controversial funding

Paul Harvey 29 Oct 2026

Sri Lanka mourns iconic tusker amid renewed calls to address human-elephant conflict

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Oct 2026
A man rides a bicycle through thick haze caused by wildfires in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Oct. 23, 2026.

Indonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censored

Winda Charmila 23 Oct 2026
A deep-sea cucumber among polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Image courtesy of ROV-Team GEOMAR/ROV KIEL 6000/GEOMAR.

US deep-sea mining claims in Pacific’s high seas now rival the area set aside by international regulator

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Andrés Alegría 20 Oct 2026

Sri Lanka elephant found with a gunshot wound. How can tuskers be protected?

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Oct 2026
A Sumatran orangutan in Bukit Lawang, North Sumatra.

Indonesia threatens prison time for unauthorized downloads of forest data

Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Philip Jacobson 6 Oct 2026
Two Spix’s macaws

Vantara in talks with Brazil on ‘strategic cooperation’ on threatened species, FOIA documents reveal

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman 1 Oct 2026
Indigenous people walk through a part of the Amazon River that shows signs of drought in Santa Sofia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, 2024.

An Indigenous take on Colombia’s new gov’t: Interview with a Putumayo Indigenous leader

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2026

Global pressure on ayahuasca threatens Amazonian plants and knowledge systems

Carlos Minuano 23 Jun 2026

In Rio Indio, farmers fight Panama Canal reservoir project — and displacement

Monica Pelliccia 16 Jun 2026
A tiger in the Central Zoo in Kathmandu.

Experts caution Nepal’s plan to open doors to private zoos

Deepak Adhikari 30 Apr 2026

Paul Ehrlich, ‘Population Bomb’ ecologist, dies at 93

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Mar 2026
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Forest advocates accuse EU energy firm of Dutch biomass certification fraud

Justin Catanoso 13 Mar 2026
A young Grauer's gorilla in Kahuzi-Biega National Park.

Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 11 Sep 2025
Researcher Anna Gee and GIS specialist Antony Zacarías Morales track tree growth in the TreeMapper app.

After controversies, Plant-for-the-Planet plots its comeback

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2025
Employed women of the Banpewa community carrying seedlings to the planting site.

After controversy, Plant-for-the-Planet focuses on the trees

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2025
Fishers from the community of Iguaiba, in the Alcântara Quilombo. About 2,000 people are at risk of losing their homes near the coast, as happened with other communities in the 1980s, so the FAB can carry out its plans. Image courtesy of Ana Mendes/Imagens Humanas.

Rail and port project in Amazon wetland stirs angst among Quilombola fishers

Aimee Gabay 30 Jan 2025

Armed conflict, not Batwa people, at heart of Grauer’s gorillas’ past decline in DRC park

Aimable Twahirwa, Latoya Abulu 16 Dec 2024
Trees cut down for biomass.

Biomass power grows in Japan despite new understanding of climate risks

Annelise Giseburt 29 Jul 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
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

Justin Catanoso 2 Apr 2024
People holding wood pellets.

Study: Burning wood pellets for energy endangers local communities’ health

Justin Catanoso 18 Jan 2024
Jesi Ferreira de Castro, coordinator of the São Francisco community

Paradise lost? Brazil’s biggest bauxite mining firm denies riverine rights

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 27 Nov 2023
Jesi Ferreira de Castro, coordinator of the São Francisco community

Brazil’s biggest bauxite mining firm denies riverine rights

Jesi Ferreira, Sue Branford, Thais Borges 27 Nov 2023
Aerial view showing a massive ring of thousands of whole trees at Enviva’s Sampson County, North Carolina

Enviva, the world’s largest biomass energy company, is near collapse

Justin Catanoso 20 Nov 2023
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023
Pope Francis has inspired people the world over.

Ahead of COP28, pope spurs policymakers, faith leaders to push climate action

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2023

Pope Francis condemns world leaders for deeply flawed UN climate process

Justin Catanoso 5 Oct 2023

Climate emergency may channel millions in resources toward corn-based ethanol in the Amazon

Fábio Bispo, O Joio e o Trigo 3 Jul 2023
A giant anteater.

Can the EU’s deforestation law save Argentina’s Gran Chaco from soy?

Kimberley Brown 6 Jun 2023

Militarized conservation: Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Lorenzo Pellegrini 6 Jun 2023

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