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Japanese fire-bellied newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster).

How ‘gentle power’ can preserve traditional biodiversity in Tokyo

Annelise Giseburt 21 Aug 2026
Found across the Canary Islands, the scarlet sea fan (Leptogorgia ruberrima) is a soft octocoral that provides shelter and food for many fish and other marine organisms. Image by thorsten72 via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Spain proposes 23 new marine protected areas in the Canary Islands and Mediterranean

Francesco De Augustinis 21 Aug 2026

This tiny Thai lizard shares its name with a ‘House of the Dragon’ beast

Naina Rao 21 Aug 2026

Hermit crabs and cockroaches emerge as unlikely seed dispersers on a Japanese island

Naina Rao 21 Aug 2026

Climate change drove extreme July heat in European seas, study finds

Naina Rao 20 Aug 2026
Wilfrido Arends, 46, an Indigenous Wayuu fisher known locally as “Caracas,” scans the horizon as he steers the onboard motor of his small fishing boat. Image by Euan Wallace.

Indigenous fishers rethink shark hunting & protect species on Colombia’s coast

Euan Wallace 20 Aug 2026

Sloth bears help shape India’s dry forests as unlikely seed dispersers

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2026
Red Sea coastal landscape. Image courtesy of Marwan Mahmoud Kamal Hamdoun.

Egypt’s deserts show why ecological knowledge matters in conservation (commentary)

Marwan Mahmoud Kamal Hamdoun 19 Aug 2026
Members of the Kāi Tahu marine ranger team return from harvesting seaweed. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model

Edward Carver 19 Aug 2026

Why carbon markets alone won’t save Southeast Asia’s concessions forests

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2026
Green sea turtle swimming in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Image by ©Commonwealth of Australia (Reef Authority), photographer J. Sumerling. CC BY 4.0.

On the Great Barrier Reef, management by Traditional Owners is growing

Cat Williams 18 Aug 2026

A looming rock collapse threatens a Swiss village as thawing permafrost destabilizes the Alps

Associated Press 18 Aug 2026

As an industry and a cooking ingredient, seaweed is gaining ground in Brazil

Letícia Klein 18 Aug 2026
Henry Carey holds up shells while diving for conch off the coast of McLean's Town, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, in 2022.

Mobile queen conch hatcheries strive to help the species, engage Caribbean communities

André Habet 18 Aug 2026
A migrant worker in a cacao farm in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘Cocoa fever’ in Liberia’s Grand Gedeh is wiping out native forests

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2026

Lake Powell hits record low, threatening key water and electricity supply for millions

Associated Press 17 Aug 2026
Residents at Paraíso Grande riverine community, located 30 minutes by fast boat from the city of Humaitá, say the risk of accidents with big convoys increases during the Madeira River’s high-water season, when its banks are flooded.. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Fatal barge crashes fuel fear over Madeira River waterway expansion in Brazil

Karla Mendes 17 Aug 2026
A jaguarundi at a zoo in Germany.

Increasingly rare: Jaguarundi moves up a notch on the endangered species list

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2026
A Timor green pigeon (Treron psittaceus).

Only a few hundred Timor green pigeons may remain. There is still time to save them

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2026
Wollert (Leadbeater’s Possum) on Wurundjeri Country. Photo by Steven Kuiter

Logging and the slow disappearance of Australia’s large old trees (commentary)

David Lindenmayer 17 Aug 2026
Oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), listed by the IUCN as a critically endangered species.

Global marine protected areas fail to safeguard most sharks and rays: Study

Madeline Shaw 14 Aug 2026
Cerros de Mavicure at sunset. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Among the sacred hills of Colombia’s Guainía

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Aug 2026
Sand cats are the only desert-dwelling wild feline.

Caught on camera: Sand cats may have a ‘sizable population’ in Qatar

Alex Megerle 14 Aug 2026

Sand mining plans spark opposition from fishers in Indonesia’s Riau Islands

Yogi Eka Sahputra, Basten Gokkon 14 Aug 2026

Infrastructure and land use behind devastating India monsoon floods

Naina Rao 14 Aug 2026
Volunteers work in a vegetable field belonging to Tiyani Secondary School where the manure is thrown after gas is extracted. Image by Bernard Chiguvare.

South Africa school uses cattle dung to generate biogas for cooking meals

Bernard Chiguvare 14 Aug 2026
African savanna elephants in Namibia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

More people, farms, and drought could mean more elephant conflict in Southern Africa

David Brown 14 Aug 2026
A Timor green pigeon (Treron psittaceus).

Timor green pigeon nears extinction after decades of inaction, study warns

Timothy Mihocik 13 Aug 2026

Land rights and mangroves entwine in a Brazilian quilombo’s resistance

Carolina de Marchi 13 Aug 2026

Bat virus fragments turn up in fertilizer sold in Thai markets, study finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026
Activists in Myanmar protest against the Myitsone Dam project in this 2019 file photo. Image by AP Photo/Thein Zaw.

Myanmar junta pushes to restart Myitsone Dam project

Esther J 13 Aug 2026
Manganese nodules on the seafloor in the Clarion-Clipperton zone that's been considered for deep-sea mining. Image by ROV KIEL 6000, GEOMAR - Geomar Bilddatenbank via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Six African countries now support precautionary pause on deep-seabed mining

Victoria Schneider 13 Aug 2026

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