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

Maxwell Radwin 18 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

Snakes on a train: King cobras are hitching rides in India

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2026
A mud crab (Scylla serrata) Image by titi-uu via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

In Kenya’s Jomvu Creek, women help restore a vanishing coast through crab farming

Asha Bekidusa 11 Feb 2026
Scientists Yanive Aluma and Odel Harve check on a subaquatic whale-recording device. Image courtesy of Project CETI.

Scientists call for ethics rules as AI fuels animal communication research

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2026
Across Kep province, fishing communities fear the Funan Techo Canal will see them lose their homes on land and their livelihoods at sea. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodia’s canal mega-project threatens coastal communities and marine life

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 10 Feb 2026
Gerard C. Boere. Courtesy of AEWA

Gerard C. Boere, conservationist and designer of flyways, died Jan 6, aged 83

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2026

Encouragement boosts people’s likelihood to take climate action

Bobby Bascomb 6 Feb 2026
Kathy Jefferson Bancroft

Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, guardian of a stolen lake

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2026
Inauguration of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Sept. 9, 2025).

Ethiopia’s Renaissance mega-dam fuels energy hopes and regional anxiety

Elodie Toto 6 Feb 2026
Open burning of plastic in a community in Guiyu, China. This practice is fast becoming a common way to dispose of plastic and other waste.

Plastic household waste burned as fuel on rise in Global South, risking health

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2026

Light pollution could worsen allergy seasons, new study suggests

Bobby Bascomb 5 Feb 2026
Mulkharka residents who oppose the Nagmati Dam project and are campaigning to stop construction.

A dam threatens Nepal’s Indigenous community; they want it on the ballot

Bibek Bhandari 4 Feb 2026

Agave or bust! Mexican long-nosed bats head farther north in search of sweet nectar

Associated Press 4 Feb 2026
Seagrass in Malaysia

Seagrass restoration in Malaysia finds multi-species approach boosts recovery

Carolyn Cowan 4 Feb 2026
An artisanal miner holds up a fragment of copper-bearing ore.

What’s happening with the global treaty to trace critical minerals?

Aimee Gabay 3 Feb 2026
Ramon ‘Chin-Chin’ Uy Jr. is Slow Food representative for the Asia and Pacific region. Image courtesy of Slow Food.

Why is a Philippine island now the Asia Pacific center for agroecology? Interview with Ramon ‘Chin-Chin’ Uy Jr.

Keith Anthony Fabro 3 Feb 2026
Fire in Humaitá, Amazonas state, Brazil in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

When nature becomes a security risk

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Feb 2026

Australia’s land-use squeeze

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jan 2026

Data show oil and gas blocks cover one-fourth of Ecuador, mostly in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 29 Jan 2026
Salam came here from North Sulawesi 10 years ago and now has a farm of 1,200 peppercorn trees.

Worries grow for Sulawesi farmers as nickel mining company plans expansion

Richard Kent 29 Jan 2026
Food security activist Richard Rojo in his Vanuatu taro garden. Image courtesy of Monica Kidd.

Vanuatu communities move to protect taro, an ancestral climate-resilient crop (analysis)

Monica Kidd 26 Jan 2026
Kirtida Mekani. Photo courtesy of Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame

Kirtida Mekani, Singapore’s tree lady, has died, aged 66

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2026
In the weeks since the deforestation in May, banda organizers launched a campaign to replant 20,000 saplings.

World Bank watchdog looks into Nepal cable car project amid Indigenous outcry

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 23 Jan 2026
An Indigenous Tikuna man in the Amazon Rainforest in Colombia. Some researchers oppose the idea that human cultures would have been limited and determined by the environment, and that supports the notion that human cultures have modified the environment as desired. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

What it will take to protect the Amazon, according to Virgilio Viana

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jan 2026
Participants of Terra Madre Asia Pacific celebrate day 5 of the regional 'good food' event. Image courtesy of Slow Food.

Philippines hosts new Asia-Pacific hub for sustainable agriculture, cuisine

Keith Anthony Fabro 21 Jan 2026
Fishermen and birds coexist in harmony on almost all mudflats of coastal Bangladesh.

Is South Asia becoming inhospitable for migratory birds?

Sadiqur Rahman 21 Jan 2026

Predators of the Great Wildebeest Migration: Then and now (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 20 Jan 2026

From south to north, Sri Lanka’s cricket dreams undermine fragile ecosystems

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jan 2026

Flores’ geothermal ambitions collide with justice, culture & local resistance

Basten Gokkon 16 Jan 2026
Loading a barge with iron ore from Simandou. Image by Paul Kagame via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Hopes and fears as Guinea exports iron ore from Simandou mines

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jan 2026
After burning off the mercury, a relatively pure piece of gold remains. Image by Thomas Graham for Mongabay.

Turning the Amazon’s toxic gold mine waste liability into economic opportunity (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Jan 2026

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