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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

A ‘Treasury of Ice’ goes on show, revealing relics as Swiss glaciers rapidly melt

Associated Press 21 Oct 2026
A red-Footed booby (Sula sula) chick on an atoll island in the central Indian Ocean.

Seabird guano and native trees keep islands above rising seas: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Oct 2026
Banner image: The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

IUCN’s Madhu Rao on the world’s protected areas: Progress, pressures and the race to 2030

David Akana 21 Oct 2026
Sheep in pasture at Flag Hill Farm in Vershire, VT. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

Sustainable silvopasture is popular with US farmers despite waning financial supports

Erik Hoffner 21 Oct 2026
: Cacao (Theobroma cacao). Image courtesy of mwintirew via iNaturalist (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Heavy rains during critical period of cacao cultivation hit Ghana’s yields

Victoria Schneider 21 Oct 2026

Mozambique’s Maputo National Park showcases biodiversity and shelters migratory birds

Wilson Odhiambo 20 Oct 2026

For Australia’s Indigenous Desert Alliance, caring for Country starts with a story

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Oct 2026
A deep-sea cucumber among polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Image courtesy of ROV-Team GEOMAR/ROV KIEL 6000/GEOMAR.

US deep-sea mining claims in Pacific’s high seas now rival the area set aside by international regulator

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Andrés Alegría 20 Oct 2026
Silky sharks like this one, seen in the Bahamas, occupy important roles high in the food chain, and their loss could spell trouble for oceans.

As silky sharks decline, Costa Rica’s dominant trade faces a reckoning

Alex Megerle 20 Oct 2026
Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in Louisiana

Recycled glass offers a potential new tool to restore a vanishing coastline

Fernanda Biasoli 20 Oct 2026

Six new calves offer hope amid ongoing threats to Cambodia’s Irrawaddy dolphins

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2026
Nigeria's Parks chief, Ibrahim Musa Goni. Photo, African Nature Investors Foundation.

Nigeria’s parks chief stresses conservation gains amid struggle to protect wildlife

David Akana 20 Oct 2026
Fire has engulfed Mount Arjuno close to Malang.

Wildfire in Indonesia’s Mount Bromo National Park kills 4 firefighters

Eko Widianto 20 Oct 2026
Ellesmere Island is home to one of the most northerly populations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the world. Image by Arturo de Frias Marques via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Loss of a rare lake reveals how warming has hit the Canadian Arctic’s ‘planetary fridge’

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 Oct 2026

‘Exceptionally severe’ oil well eruption in Niger raises fears for threatened desert wildlife

Elodie Toto 19 Oct 2026

Anatomy of a land grab: the law, likes, and legislator behind an Indigenous land invasion in Brazil

Aimee Gabay, Elisângela Mendonça 19 Oct 2026
Seasonally flooded Igapó forest near Manaus, Brazil. Image courtesy of Alexey Yakovlev via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

A Belgium-sized area of Amazon wetland has been converted, and losses are climbing

Shanna Hanbury 19 Oct 2026
Giant kelp in Port Davey, Tasmania. Image courtesy of Stefan Andrews.

Funding uncertainty threatens Tasmania’s gains against kelp-grazing sea urchins

Amina McCauley 19 Oct 2026
Wisye Sahambangung, front, and other women from Rhizopora work in a muddy mangrove area in Sarawet on Sept. 2, 2026. Image courtesy of Wisye Sahambangung.

Indonesian women cash in on mangrove restoration: Interview with community leader Wisye Sahambangung

Annisa Dinulislam 17 Oct 2026
Hoatzin in the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Amazon deforestation falls 42% to a record low

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Oct 2026
Nyaradzo Auxilia Hoto rose from a frontline ranger with Zimbabwe’s Akashinga to a leadership role as a sergeant before becoming a biodiversity officer. Photo courtesy of Akashinga.

The uplifting story of one of Zimbabwe’s pioneering women rangers

David Akana 16 Oct 2026
A wolf howls with the Sawtooth Mountains in the background. Image © Jim and Jamie Dutcher.

As US states reduce recently restored wolf populations, here’s what we risk losing (commentary)

Jim and Jamie Dutcher 16 Oct 2026
Adriana Hora dos Santos harvests oysters from a mangrove forest near Areia Branca, a former traditional village that is now a neighborhood of Aracaju. Photo by André Cherri / V.U.E.L.A.

‘Enclosed river:’ Women shellfish gatherers fight for access to mangroves in Brazil

Carolina de Marchi 16 Oct 2026
People gather to watch a trapped shark called Bukangi at the North Port Waterfront Park in Busan, South Korea, on Sept. 29, 2026. Image by AP Photos/Son Hyung-joo/Yonhap.

Celebrity shark trapped in South Korean canal stirs concerns over warming seas

Kelly Kasulis-Cho 16 Oct 2026
The village of Bento Rodrigues in the aftermath of the Mariana mining disaster in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2015, showing destroyed buildings caked in mud and a lot of debris.

Climate change could send more toxic mining waste into coastal waters, study warns

Madeline Shaw 16 Oct 2026
Firefighters battling a blaze in Central Kalimantan in 2026.

‘Perpetuating stupidity’: Indonesia comes under fire for response to burning and haze

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Oct 2026
A woman picks fallen mahua flowers near Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh state.

How Indian communities earn a living from more than forest timber

Stephin Thomas 15 Oct 2026
Wandering albatrosses on South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean that’s a key breeding spot for this and other albatross species. The species’ population on the island has declined significantly in recent decades.

Nations at southern bluefin tuna meeting stop short of adopting new seabird protections

Edward Carver 15 Oct 2026
A Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), a commercially important fish, was once abundant, but its numbers have dwindled in Belize and throughout the Caribbean, and it’s now critically endangered. Image courtesy of Connor Holland/Ocean Image Bank.

Belize looks to the deep sea to complete its 30% ocean protection pledge

Marco Lopez 15 Oct 2026
A Peruvian artisanal fisher poses with a jumbo flying squid. Image courtesy of National Society of Artisanal Fishing of Peru (SONAPESCAL).

From paper parks to lasting protection, here’s what works in marine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Oct 2026
Artificial mangrove roots

Artificial mangrove roots offer a stopgap for Thailand’s eroding coastline

Carolyn Cowan 15 Oct 2026

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