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Investigations into Singapore palm oil firm find family ties to Borneo deforesters

Robin Hicks 29 Oct 2026
A dry canal in the Air Merah community forest area.

Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires

Teguh Suprayitno 29 Oct 2026
A fisher with an outboard motor on Pemba island, Tanzania. Image courtesy of Adrian Ponsard/WCS.

‘Design conservation with those who will live with it’: 30 by 30 in Africa

Sasha Nunneley 29 Oct 2026
Burned forest area in Mozambique's Zambézia province. Image by Far Vubil.

Fires and weak monitoring hinder reforestation efforts in Mozambique

Far Vubil 29 Oct 2026

Fishing cat rescue-and-release offers potential model for conservation in Bangladesh

Naina Rao 29 Oct 2026

Fishers in eastern Indonesia struggle as rough seas keep them ashore

Basten Gokkon 29 Oct 2026
Clouded leopard

‘Action on the ground’ in Laos is needed to recover large mammals, protect more species

Carolyn Cowan 29 Oct 2026

Netherlands pledges $500 million to help conserve tropical forests

David Brown 28 Oct 2026

Eradicating invasive bass gives endangered South African fish room to recover

Barry Christianson 28 Oct 2026
A watercolor by the Indigenous Wayana, Aimawale Opoya.

Suriname’s rich archaeological history may hold keys to conservation

Peter Speetjens 28 Oct 2026

US public lands tracker highlights the collective impact of Trump policies

Bobby Bascomb 28 Oct 2026
Eurasian Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) at Kalaibiami I, Rivers state, Nigeria. Image © Adedotun Ajibade via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

As the sea swallows a Nigerian community, migratory bird habitat disappears

Amir Sadiq 28 Oct 2026
Kashmiri shepherd girls walk back home after collecting water from nearby spring in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, 2021.

Kashmir’s springs are drying up. Scientists say saving them starts uphill

Hashim Quraishi 27 Oct 2026
A file photo shows a green sea turtle on a coral reef in Tañon Strait, a protected seascape between the Philippine islands of Negros and Cebu. Image courtesy of Tañon Strait Philippines.

The Philippine lawyer who beat an oil giant: Rose Liza Eisma-Osorio on defending Tañon Strait

Maverick Avila 27 Oct 2026

Five new mussel species reveal how much biodiversity US rivers still conceal

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2026
Robson Mura, of the Mura Indigenous community, watches the sunrise at the Moyray village in Autazes, Amazonas state, February 2025.

Canadian-backed potash mine in Brazil has dried up sacred Amazon springs, say residents

Aimee Gabay 26 Oct 2026
Studying fungi in Indonesia's Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park. Image © Garry Lotulung/SPUN-Indonesia.

Fungi now have a global conservation strategy

John Cannon 26 Oct 2026
Grey-necked rockfowl (Picathartes oreas) in Cameroon. Image © Niall Perrins via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/331794149 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Rare bird finding strengthens case to protect Congo rainforest across borders

Ryan Truscott 26 Oct 2026
Lobe coral (Porites lobata).

Corals keep a record of pollution, pointing to a new monitoring method: Study

Edward Carver 26 Oct 2026
Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)

World Kangaroo Day: How climate change impacts Australia’s macropods

Cooper Williams 24 Oct 2026
Federal environmental civil servants mobilize to reelect Lula, warning the public about environmental risks if the Bolsonaro clan returns to power. Image courtesy of Ascema Nacional.

Environmental officials fear new wave of harassment if Flavio Bolsonaro wins in Brazil

Karla Mendes 23 Oct 2026

Critics call for halt to road construction in Mexico’s Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 23 Oct 2026
The Arazaire community is split in two, bisected by the Inambari River. On the river's left bank, where residents once had agricultural plots, forest, and ceremonial lagoons, the landscape is now dominated by mercury-laden ponds and deforestation.

Amazon communities lose water as mining and deforestation reshape rivers

Vanessa Romo 23 Oct 2026
Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1988-2026, according to INPE.

What if Flávio Bolsonaro wins? High stakes for the environment in Brazil’s 2026 elections (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 23 Oct 2026

Nearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warns

David Brown 23 Oct 2026

Two decades after crash, Nepal still searching for new generation of conservation visionaries

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2026

World Snow Leopard Day: Community action and new science foster coexistence with humans

Naina Rao 23 Oct 2026

Scorched sanctuaries: The race to save Borneo’s orangutans from fires

Garry Lotulung 22 Oct 2026

Another mining-linked pollution incident raises alarm over Zambia’s Kafue River

Chisapi Kumbutso 22 Oct 2026
Sánchez Mercado on a field trip. His research evaluates the dynamics of morichales, as well as their potential as carbon sinks that can be easily replicated in the tropical belt. Image courtesy of Miguel Angel Sánchez-Mercado.

Water, carbon & the ‘tree of life’: Interview with Venezuela’s guardian of morichales

Diego Ávila Muskus 22 Oct 2026
Dinghies used for halibut fishing in Greenland. Image courtesy of Caroline Bouchard via Wikimedia Commons (free to use).

‘A decision to decide’: Greenland moves to suspend seabed mining until 2029

Shanna Hanbury 22 Oct 2026
A squirrel monkey in the Amazon.

Extractive industries threaten global goal to protect 30% of nature by 2030, report finds

Aimee Gabay 21 Oct 2026

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