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Indigenous leader Raoni receives palliative care in Brazil after cancer diagnosis

Associated Press 15 Sep 2026
Offshore wind turbines at Noshiro Port, Japan.

10 promising ways to ‘green’ offshore wind

Sean Mowbray 15 Sep 2026
A Shompen man at 35km in Great Nicobar Island in 1997. The Shompen are the original forest dwellers of the island. Images courtesy of Mandish Chandi.

‘They should choose their own destinies’: Manish Chandi on India’s isolated tribes

Latoya Abulu 15 Sep 2026
Cocoa thumbnail

Did you know cocoa pulp tastes like lychee?!

The Rainforester 14 Sep 2026
Bar-headed geese (Anser indicus).

Decline of migratory birds spurs calls for coordinated conservation

Wilson Odhiambo 14 Sep 2026
Codamozza (Italian for “Cut Tail”), a fin whale often sighted by the Italian marine conservation nonprofit Tethys Research Institute in the Pelagos Sanctuary

Can we stop ships from killing the Mediterranean’s last great whales?

Clea Skopeliti, Federica Rossi, Wouter Massink 14 Sep 2026
shark fin

Panama looks to science, fishers, and the law to protect its sharks and rays

Monica Pelliccia 14 Sep 2026
A Ganges river dolphin in Bangladesh.

Against the odds, endangered dolphins survive in Bangladesh’s polluted river

Md Jahidul Islam 14 Sep 2026
Illustration of the clownfish photo taken by Debby Ng.

A clownfish’s last stand

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2026

How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Sep 2026
Gold nugget

The push for a sustainable artisanal mining in the Peruvian Amazon

Felipe Esparza 12 Sep 2026
Lesser and greater flamingos amass at Lake Natron

Migratory bird species increasingly at risk, report finds, but there is still hope

Sean Mowbray 11 Sep 2026
A pygmy marmoset.

Indigenous knowledge x tech in the search for a tiny Amazon monkey

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Sep 2026

Court rules residents of a US city don’t have a constitutional right to lead-free water

Bobby Bascomb 10 Sep 2026
A turbine being installed at Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm in the U.K.

Offshore wind may be good for the climate but can it be good for the ocean, too?

Sean Mowbray 10 Sep 2026
Tombong Barrow in his rice field rice at Kiang Jifarong, the Gambia. Image by Yero Bah for Mongabay.

As saltwater advances, Gambian farmers rethink how to protect rice fields

Yero S. Bah 10 Sep 2026
Spinach pipefish is an endemic species found in Papua New Guinea's Sepik River. It was not seen by scientists for more than four decades. Image Courtesy of New Guinea Binatang Research Centre.

Indigenous fisherwoman finds ‘lost’ spinach pipefish, not seen by science in 40 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Sep 2026
Sugi trees at Nikkō Tōshō-gū.

Japan wants to plant no-pollen trees to solve its hay fever crisis

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2026
Two Przewalski’s horse foals born in Kazakhstan in August 2026. Image courtesy of Albert Salemgareyev.

Two wild Przewalski’s horse foals born in Kazakhstan after 200 years

Shanna Hanbury 9 Sep 2026
Pallas’s cat kittens in Mongolia. These small cats are vulnerable to declines in other burrowing species, as they can’t dig out holes for themselves that they use for shelter and to raise their young. Image by Sebastian Kennerknecht/Cat Expeditions

Nepal’s high-altitude wildernesses & wildlife are increasingly under threat (commentary)

Geraldine Werhahn, Sabita Gurung 9 Sep 2026

How to enhance ocean health and resilience with marine rewilding

Bobby Bascomb 9 Sep 2026

In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed

Associated Press 9 Sep 2026
A woman cleans a blanket in algae-filled water on the banks of Wular Lake in Kashmir.

Kashmir’s water bodies have declined for decades. Is conservation keeping pace?

Hashim Quraishi 9 Sep 2026
Deep-sea octopus

Caribbean scientists document uncharted deep-sea waters in Trinidad and Tobago

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Sep 2026
Fishing vessels in Dunedin, New Zealand.

New Zealand put fishing boats under camera surveillance. Will it stay the course?

Edward Carver 9 Sep 2026
Lila Devi uses a traditional sickle to demonstrate how locals craft a jhapa.

Sickles, sarees and smoke: Women on the frontlines of Uttarakhand forest fires

Swati Thapa 8 Sep 2026
Chimpanzees at Mikeno Lodge in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image by Joseph King via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous peoples near Congo parks propose diverse solutions for the future of conservation

Blaise Kasereka Makuta, Latoya Abulu 8 Sep 2026
Orangutans seen in the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth where tigers, orangutans, elephants and rhinos still coexsist.

Singkil peat swamp: The embattled orangutan capital of the world

Mongabay 8 Sep 2026

Indigenous territories maintain Amazon forest just as well as protected areas, study finds

Aimee Gabay 8 Sep 2026

New analysis maps mercury threat to 951 Amazon communities in three countries

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo, Daniela Quintero Díaz 8 Sep 2026
A female Adenomera varcena. Image courtesy of Borburema et al., (2026).

New-to-science Amazon frog stands out for its slow ‘lazy’ song

Shanna Hanbury 8 Sep 2026

In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

María Paula Rubiano A. 7 Sep 2026

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