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Bat in a cave in Myanmar

In Myanmar’s limestone hills, people and bats are often too close for comfort

Carolyn Cowan 25 Feb 2026
Fisherfolk at Lourenção Rocks on the Amazon’s Tocantins River.

Amazon riverfolk warn blasting rocks for shipping route will kill fisheries

Tiffany Higgins 25 Feb 2026

Bringing Mongabay’s Amazon narco airstrip exposé to the stage

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Feb 2026

Indigenous leader assassinated in Colombia’s Caldas department

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2026
A Sherpa man carries bags up a mountain.

As Nepal votes, climate change is an elephant in the room for Sherpa community

Shashwat Pant 24 Feb 2026
A lion in Africa.

Botswana shows how smarter cattle herding can save lions, reopen ancient wildlife pathways

Gloria Dickie 24 Feb 2026

Panama NGOs face lawsuits, asset seizures in fight over port construction

Maxwell Radwin 23 Feb 2026
Lucía Torres posing while the crew frames the side camera for Mongabay’s Against All Odds video series in 2024. Image by Samantha Lee/Mongabay.

How Lucia Torres is bringing people into nature’s frame

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 23 Feb 2026
Rosolie documenting the destruction of the Amazon for social media.

A journey from student to Amazon “Junglekeeper”: Interview with Paul Rosolie

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2026

Mongabay Explains

23 Feb 2026

The cost of compliance with the EUDR will limit its impact on reducing deforestation (commentary)

Bjørn Rask Thomsen, Daniel Nepstad 23 Feb 2026
Jose-Albino-Canas-Ramirez. From Facebook

José Albino Cañas Ramírez, a defender of Indigenous territories, aged 44

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Feb 2026

Malawi’s solar boom is leaving a toxic legacy of lead waste

Charles Mpaka 20 Feb 2026

How seabird poop helped fuel ancient civilizations in Peru

David Brown 19 Feb 2026

Argentina considers weakening glacier safeguards in pursuit of critical minerals

Maxwell Radwin 19 Feb 2026
Community members take part in the installation of solar panels in the Porto Rico community, in the Brazilian Amazon.

Amazon villages build autonomous energy systems after mega-dam failed pledges

Jorge C. Carrasco 18 Feb 2026

In Ecuador’s Chocó, roads shape the fate of the rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 18 Feb 2026
Highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil. Highway BR-163, built during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, connects areas of strong support for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who lost October's election. Image by AP Photo/Leo Correa.

Banks must step in before the Amazon Soy Moratorium collapses (commentary)

Ginger Cassady 18 Feb 2026

Researchers eye jaguar conservation wins under Brazil Indigenous stewardship project

James Hall, Karla Mendes 18 Feb 2026
Paicines Ranch

From chemistry to regeneration: Agriculture’s next transformation has begun (commentary)

Sallie Calhoun 17 Feb 2026
Lisa Morehead-Hillman and Leaf Hillman, both Karuk, celebrate the removal of the dams on the newly exposed reservoir floor in 2024. The former head of the Karuk Natural Resources Department, Leaf spent two decades working with other Indigenous groups, environmental organizations and government officials to bring back the Klamath River. Image courtesy of Kiliii Yüyan.

Kiliii Yüyan puts Indigenous ‘Guardians of Life’ and their planetary stewardship in focus

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Feb 2026
A Pirahã family floating on a river, 2017.

Malaria outbreak among Indigenous Pirahã linked to forest loss, satellite data find

Aimee Gabay 17 Feb 2026

Texas sea turtles have lost a conservation hero (commentary)

Todd Steiner 16 Feb 2026
Photo by Gary Tabor.

A hundred-year vision: Gary Tabor on the rise of large landscape conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Feb 2026

Seven years after Brazil’s worst dam disaster, mining operations bounce back

Felipe S. Duran, Mylena Melo 16 Feb 2026

When environmental reporting has to outlast the news cycle

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Feb 2026
Huoideua plantation.

From land acquisitions to local ownership: Alternatives for carbon offsetting (commentary)

Christoph Kubitza 13 Feb 2026
Dams limited the natural flow of the Madeira River, disrupting the currents that fish need and causing up to a 90% reduction in stocks in some locations. Image by Kelvily Santos de Souza for Mongabay.

Fishers denounce plummeting fish stocks following Amazon hydroelectric dam

Mongabay.com 12 Feb 2026
Fishers in Takeo province rely on the annual flooding of wetlands where they raise and catch a variety of crustaceans. Image by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Farmers fear displacement, drought, flooding tied to Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 12 Feb 2026
A small airplane used for the illegal mining network is set on fire by IBAMA inspectors in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.

Brazil mining boss sentenced for illegal gold operation on Indigenous land

Shanna Hanbury 12 Feb 2026

Banks decline to finance LNG project in Papua New Guinea

Victoria Schneider 11 Feb 2026
Crew members from Southeast Asia work to unload fish on purse seiners in the Western Pacific Ocean in 2023.

Sustainable fisheries can’t be built on exploited labor (commentary)

Alfred “Bubba” Cook 11 Feb 2026

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