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Vultures feeding on carrion. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

As large scavengers decline, disease risk soars, study finds

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2025
A seaweed farmer on Nusa Lembongan flashes a warm, cheeky smile as she moves through her daily harvesting routine.

Indonesian women sustain seaweed traditions in a changing climate

Maddy Bolt 10 Jun 2025
A diver applies an amoxicillin paste to stony coral tissue loss disease-affected corals in Roatan, Honduras. The antibiotic paste can slow or halt lesion progression. Image by Antonio Busiello.

Researchers race to understand disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates

Ruth Kamnitzer 6 Jun 2025

Signs of hope as elephant seals rebound from avian flu in remote Chilean fjord

Barinia Montoya 4 Jun 2025

Without vultures, carcasses are slow to rot and disease-carrying flies abound

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2025
A. rugioperculatus activity observed in Florida.

Invasive whiteflies pose a new threat to Bangladesh’s cash crops

Abu Siddique 15 May 2025
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Amazon. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Why WHO’s pandemic prevention draft agreement takes a nature-centric, One Health approach (commentary)

Chris Walzer, Susan Lieberman, Christine Franklin 13 May 2025
An endangered long-tailed macaque peeks out from a cage having been exported from Vietnam to Europe. Image supplied by Animal Rights BE.

Report alleges criminality in Cambodian, Vietnamese monkey trade

Gerald Flynn 21 Apr 2025
Banner image of a hoary fox by Augusto Gomes for Mongabay.

Meet Brazil’s often-seen but little-known hoary fox

Mongabay.com 16 Apr 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025
Banner image of a yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Dry season predictability and temperature drive dengue cases: Study

Kristine Sabillo 10 Mar 2025
An ocelot walks tentatively into a pre-release enclosure.

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Sean Mowbray 18 Feb 2025
A black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) feeding on a palm tree in Brisbane, Australia.

Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Feb 2025
Juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Chile.

Mass salmon deaths hit Scottish farms as government investigates

Francesco De Augustinis 12 Feb 2025

Bobcats benefit both human and ecological health, but their growing populations are often misunderstood

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Feb 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

Disease surges in Indonesia community on frontline of world energy transition

Rabul Sawal 6 Feb 2025

U.S. reports first human death from H5N1 bird flu

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2025

A deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority

Sarah Brown 30 Dec 2024

Severe drought in Peruvian Amazon isolated more than 130 Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 5 Dec 2024
Rainforest in Boven Digoel. Image by Ulet Ifansasti for Greenpeace.

How nature protection and inspiring art are key to planetary health & preventing pandemics

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Nov 2024

Elephant seal colonies in Argentina face long recovery after ‘catastrophic’ avian flu

Maxwell Radwin 22 Nov 2024
People walk in heavy rains in Dhaka.

Studies link stronger dengue outbreak in Bangladesh to climate change

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 22 Nov 2024
A bobcat navigates a snow-covered branch along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park.

Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

Christine Woodside 12 Nov 2024

Impacts and legacies of migration across the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2024
leopard ntnc Nepal

Canine distemper likely infecting & killing Nepal’s leopards, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Sep 2024
Gold mining erodes land cover in Pahuwato.

25-fold surge in malaria at Indonesia gold frontier raises deforestation questions

Zulkifli Mangkau 16 Sep 2024
Researchers Luciana Gallo (left) and Marcela Uhart (right) sampling for the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza strain (HPAI) of the H5N1 virus in Punta Leon, Argentina in early November 2023.

As bird flu outbreak kills myriad wildlife species, virologists eye threat to humans

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Aug 2024
Mothers and children wait in Changanine community (Chibuto District), Mozambique to collect their seeds from the Red Cross. The community has been hit very hard by the current drought, many have lost their crops and locals have to walk up to five kilometres to dig for water. Image by Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville / IFRC via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Climate change threatens public health, raising the spread of food-borne diseases

Leocadia Bongben 15 Aug 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
More than 95% of southern elephant seal pups (Mirounga leonina) born in 2023 perished in that year from the deadly outbreak of avian influenza.

Animal apocalypse: Deadly bird flu infects hundreds of species pole-to-pole

Sharon Guynup 6 Aug 2024

As climate change shakes up global map of venomous snakes, health risks abound

Suzana Camargo 5 Aug 2024
An Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species that carries dengue.

In the wake of Bangladesh’s deadliest dengue outbreak, researchers respond

Hailey Smalley 2 Aug 2024

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