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Açaí berry production in Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land, home to the Munduruku people, Pará state, Brazil.

Heat, fires and agribusiness squeeze traditional Amazon açaí harvesters

Carla Ruas 27 Apr 2026
Peter H. Raven at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Photo by M. Jacob.

Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2026
Don Janssen with an okapi. Courtesy of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

Don Janssen, wildlife veterinarian who argued that caring for animals begins with people

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Apr 2026

As Walk for Peace begins in Sri Lanka, activists call for animal rights

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Apr 2026
Nan Schaffer. Photo courtesy of Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Nan Schaffer, veterinarian who helped unlock the science of rhino reproduction, has died, aged 72

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Apr 2026
Design by Grist / Carrie Johnson.

AI is a double-edged sword for Indigenous stewardship, say U.N. experts

Aimee Gabay 24 Apr 2026

AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas

Constance Malleret 24 Apr 2026

Nepal plans park for ‘problem’ tigers as attacks raise concerns

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Mukesh Pokhrel 24 Apr 2026
Mountain gorillas continue to face serious threats as they lose habitat and are stalked by poachers who target them for their meat and body parts, or traffic their infants for zoos and entertainment.

Amid conflict and poaching, tech helps boost mountain gorilla numbers

Aimable Twahirwa 23 Apr 2026
The saltwater crocodile — the world’s largest reptile — can exceed 6 meters (20 feet) in length

Wetland destruction for mining, oil palm tied to crocodile attacks in Indonesia

Taufik Wijaya 23 Apr 2026

Open dumping & failed reforms bury Sri Lankan cities in waste problem

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Apr 2026
Design by Grist / Carrie Johnson.

Indigenous peoples’ health cannot be separated from the environment, U.N. delegates warn

Aimee Gabay 22 Apr 2026
Antipodean albatross (Diomedea antipodensis antipodensis) offshore from Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Photo by Oscar Thomas (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How marine flyways could help save the world’s declining seabird population

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Apr 2026
Solar panels installed in Bali

New treaty to end the fossil fuel era is needed more than ever (commentary)

Tzeporah Berman 21 Apr 2026

Vaupés River contamination identified near rapidly expanding Amazonian town

Aimee Gabay 21 Apr 2026

At the U.N., Indigenous leaders tackle how to enforce global climate court rulings

Joseph Lee 21 Apr 2026
Just as the resilient redwoods have evolved to survive repeated fires, the conservation workforce is equipping ourselves to withstand repeated hardships. Photo courtesy of Jen Miller.

We can navigate conservation’s ‘epidemic of suffering’ by building a culture of care (commentary)

Jen Miller, Kelly Guilbeau 21 Apr 2026

Push for solar park in Sri Lanka’s elephant terrain raises concern

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Apr 2026
George Schaller in Alaska. Photo courtesy of the George B. Schaller Archive.

How do you write the life of someone who avoided the spotlight? Miriam Horn on her biography of George Schaller

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2026
Luis Yanza. Courtesy of the Goldman Prize.

Luis Yanza, campaigner who battled big oil in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2026

Climate displacement in Africa: Court opinion could define states’ obligations   

Elodie Toto 20 Apr 2026
Alannah Acaq Hurley in Dillingham, Alaska. January, 2026. Image by Goldman Environmental Prize.

Goldman Prize winner Alannah Hurley fights Pebble Mine “from a place of love”

Claudia Geib 20 Apr 2026
American bison and calf in Yellowstone National Park, U.S. Image by Arturo de Frias Marques via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bringing the world’s rewilders together: Interview with Alister Scott

Spoorthy Raman 20 Apr 2026
Image by Grist / Taylar Irvine.

War, climate change, and AI on the agenda at this year’s U.N. Indigenous forum

Anita Hofschneider 20 Apr 2026
BR-319’s “midsection” has remained unpaved since the highway’s inauguration in 1976. Now, the road’s rebuilding is the subject of one of Brazil’s fiercest environmental debates in recent times. Image courtesy of DNIT.

Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Apr 2026
Excavations at the mine, which has been found to be the source of the pollution in two rivers in Karonga district. Image by Jordan Simeon Phiri for Mongabay.

Malawi government suspends coal miner’s license over river pollution

Charles Mpaka 20 Apr 2026
2026 winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize.

Meet the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2026
Pa Haw, father of Saw Si Paw, takes to the Salween River each morning to inspect their nets for fish, despite heavy metal contamination linked to mining sites upstream. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines

Gerald Flynn 20 Apr 2026
Ivonne Kienast at Dzanga Bai

Studying the world’s largest gathering of forest elephants with sound and field observation

Rhett Ayers Butler, David Akana 19 Apr 2026
Alpine Ash forest in the Baw Baw National Park, Victoria. Photo by Chris Taylor

What the grim outlook for Alpine Ash forests tells us about forestry dogma (commentary)

Chris Taylor, David Lindenmayer 19 Apr 2026
A Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) at Liguasan Marsh.

Energy crisis revives push to drill in Philippines’ largest intact wetland

Bong S. Sarmiento 17 Apr 2026

In Sri Lanka, animals pay the price for overcrowding and speeding jeeps

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 17 Apr 2026

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