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A man working separating coconuts from their skin in Bến Tre province.

Vietnam’s freshwater obsession leaves decades-long scars for Mekong Delta farmers

Nguyen Tra My 12 Nov 2026
Cape fur seal glides through a kelp forest. Image courtesy of Helen Walne / Sea Change Project.

To boost conservation of kelp forests, start by naming them (commentary)

Swati Thiyagarajan, Helen Walne 12 Nov 2026

This ocean liner was the world’s fastest. It’s being sunk to make the largest artificial reef

Associated Press 11 Nov 2026

Genetic study describes two new species of Amazonian howler monkeys

Matthew Burkhart 11 Nov 2026
A tree in Caxiuanã National Forest in Pará.

How would the Amazon react if it dried up? A 25-year-old field study has the answer

Luís Patriani 11 Nov 2026
A 126-meter (413-foot), Dutch-flagged industrial fishing vessel in the Flanders Banks, a set of sandbanks off France and Belgium, in November 2024. There are two MPAs in Flanders Bank; both allow industrial fishing. Image © Lorraine Turci/Greenpeace.

Audit says Europe’s marine protected areas failing as 2030 deadline looms

Edward Carver 11 Nov 2026
The oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), a species classified as critically endangered by the IUCN.

US companies apply to explore deep-sea mining in area bordering Pacific island states

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Nov 2026
One of the Watchers, or Tunyiungi va Lisima, poling a dugout on one of the region’s freshwater lakes, which local tradition considers the lakes to be sacred. Image courtesy of Kostadin Luchansky/AIB/NGOWP.

Angolan hunters protect Southern Africa’s internationally important wetland

Ryan Truscott 11 Nov 2026
Firefighting at Fingal, Tasmania in 2020.

Testing the next generation of wildfire tech: Interview with XPRIZE Foundation’s Andrea Santy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Nov 2026

US brand StarKist suspends tuna sourcing from vessels accused of exploiting Indonesian fishers

Basten Gokkon 11 Nov 2026
Beat at Annamites

Weird and wonderful wildlife revealed in underexplored mountains

Sandy Watt 11 Nov 2026
A fishing cat is photographed by a camera trap in Koh Kapik Ramsar site in Cambodia.

Cambodia’s mangrove forests offer vital refuge for threatened wildlife, 7-year study finds

Eung Sea 11 Nov 2026
Proboscis monkey

Rising seas could reshape habitats for more than 40% of world’s land vertebrates

Carolyn Cowan 11 Nov 2026
A clay robber frog seen near the Boracéia Biological Station in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Investigation: Fungus may have killed Atlantic Forest amphibians in the 1970s and ’80s

Sean Mowbray 10 Nov 2026
Conservationist Wayan Wardika in the farm.

A plan to save Bali’s vanishing fireflies takes root in organic farming

Mongabay.com 10 Nov 2026
Seaweed farmer Jonalyn Rentuaya holds a line of dried seaweed. While many community members have left since the spill, Rentuaya remains, saying she is hopeful the sea can be rehabilitated. Image by Pippo Carmona for Mongabay.

A year after a wastewater spill in the Philippines, communities fight to save a dying sea

Pippo Carmona 10 Nov 2026
Rufous-naped Bellbird (Aleadryas rufinucha) in a tree in Papua New Guinea.

El Niño’s hidden toll on trees emerges years later in Papua New Guinea rainforest

Matthew Burkhart 9 Nov 2026
Squid drying in the sun in South Korea.

South Korea’s beloved squid may vanish from its waters due to climate change, heat waves

Kelly Kasulis-Cho 9 Nov 2026
Diver holding a sun coral

Killing a dangerous coral

Julia Lima 8 Nov 2026
Diver holding a sun coral

These divers are killing a beautiful coral to save Brazil’s marine life

Julia Lima 7 Nov 2026

Peru’s drive for critical minerals threatens a disappearing glacier

Euan Wallace 6 Nov 2026
Large male loggerhead sea turtle, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

As loggerhead turtles spread west, Mediterranean beach resorts learn to share the sand

Manuela Callari, Anna Napolitano 6 Nov 2026
Fishmonger at the Mercado Central de Atarazanas in Málaga, Spain. Image by Rolf Schotsch via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Mediterranean fisheries commission adopts species management plans but punts on deep-sea protections

Francesco De Augustinis 6 Nov 2026

Singapore sand imports threaten an already sinking Cambodian fishing community, again

Andy Ball 6 Nov 2026
Cacao expansion in Pará is taking place almost entirely on land degraded before 2020, ensuring compliance with the European Union's environmental rules, the largest cocoa-buying market.

Amazon mapping shows cacao expansion without deforestation in Brazil

Rafael Spuldar 5 Nov 2026

Mali’s ‘Moringa Queen’ wins UN recognition for restoring degraded land

Yannick Kenné 5 Nov 2026
Forestry Commission officials and European trade representatives in Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana. Image courtesy of European Forest Institute via Flickr.

How Ghana’s new license to sell sustainable timber improves institutions & cooperation (analysis) 

Chris Beeko 5 Nov 2026

Artificial mangrove roots offer temporary shield for Thailand’s eroding coastline

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2026
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) marine biologist Ong Chai Kee, left, and her colleague Mohd. Sahimi Abdul Rashid collect coral samples at Pulau Redang Marine Park, Malaysia, in September 2025. Image courtesy of Ong Chai Kee.

Microplastics pollute nearly two-thirds of corals in Malaysia’s marine protected area, study finds

Ashley Yeong 4 Nov 2026
Components of the hybrid reef system being installed in Kalaeloa Harbor, which will integrate 60 engineered, concrete reef-mimicking structures with living coral. Image courtesy of Hawaii Department of Transportation.

How a ‘living breakwater’ in Hawai‘i aims to create coral habitat and protect coastline

Jules Struck 4 Nov 2026
The Ghana cuckooshrike

Photograph helps identify a West African bird not seen in 13 years

Mongabay.com 3 Nov 2026
An emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) in Antarctica jumping out of the water.

High expectations but no agreement on Antarctic marine protection, krill fishing

Francesco De Augustinis 3 Nov 2026

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