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Banner image of the underwater Borealis Mud Volcano, courtesy of Jørn Berger-Nyvoll/UiT.

Underwater volcano in Barents Sea reveals diverse marine life, study finds

Kristine Sabillo 3 Feb 2025
A Pacific wren (Troglodytes pacificus).

Indigenous knowledge helps explain bird population changes in Canada’s BC

Jane Palmer 3 Feb 2025
Chemical lures designed to mimic the scent of ripe fruit have helped attract fruit-eating bats from the genus Carollia, such as Seba's short-tailed bat (C. perspicillata).

Lures that attract seed-dispersing bats could aid tropical reforestation

Sean Mowbray 30 Jan 2025
Janet Nyakiru Abwoli, Kasese district, Uganda. Image by Innocent Kiiza for Mongabay.

In Uganda, a women-led reforestation initiative fights flooding, erosion

Innocent Kiiza 23 Jan 2025
Plains Bison in the Background at the Wolakota Bison Release, Rosebud-Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, 10/30/2020

Scientists are tracking global wildlife’s contributions to humanity

John Cannon 23 Jan 2025

Vested interests and social tribes in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 16 Jan 2025

New alert system can track changes in grasslands, farms, temperate forests

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jan 2025
A mushroom on the forest floor.

One atlas to map all ecosystems on Earth: Interview with Yana Gevorgyan

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Jan 2025

As lithium mining bleeds Atacama salt flat dry, Indigenous communities hit back

Barinia Montoya 20 Dec 2024

Communities warn of threat to ecosystems from Brazil bridge project

Lobato Felizola 12 Dec 2024

In Chile, discovery of shallowest red hydrocoral forest yet surprises scientists

Rocío González Trujillo 5 Dec 2024

Experts welcome Brazil’s revived reforestation plan as much-needed boost

Elizabeth Oliveira 20 Nov 2024
Amazon Rainforest

Report reveals how environmental crime profits in the Amazon are laundered

Aimee Gabay 5 Nov 2024
Farmer Ignatius Kakompe standing by a pod mahogany tree felled recently by illegal loggers.

Defending the hidden forest gems of Zambia’s Copperbelt Province

Ryan Truscott 31 Oct 2024
Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica

Satellite firm Planet’s ‘biodiversity subscription’ aims to make tech accessible

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Oct 2024
The First Environmental Court’s inspection of the Tilopozo wetlands, and the La Punta and La Brava lagoon systems, among others.

Chilean Indigenous association participates in key study for lawsuit against mining

Barinia Montoya 28 Oct 2024
Antarctic terns (Sterna vittata)

More krill fishing and no new protected areas for Antarctic seas after latest talks

Francesco De Augustinis 28 Oct 2024
Fish at a coral reef in the Red Sea, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.

Protecting coral reefs boosts fish numbers by 10%: Study

John Cannon 25 Oct 2024
Banner image of a koala by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Researchers track koalas using innovative airborne DNA detection tool

Kristine Sabillo 24 Oct 2024
Fully functional Earth systems offer numerous ecosystem services to humanity, including clean air and water, the provision of food, and natural pollination of crops.

Combined effects of human activities increase risk to ecosystem services

Claire Asher 10 Oct 2024
Alexandrino Garcia, an Abuelos de Tajín, in front of a Totonac altar in his house. Image by Monica Pelliccia.

In Mexico, Totonac spiritual guides work with scientists to revive ecosystems

Monica Pelliccia 7 Oct 2024

In Venezuela, natural regeneration helps restore a threatened cloud forest

María Fernanda Rodríguez 10 Sep 2024

How do ‘rights of nature’ and ‘legal personhood’ laws differ, and what’s their conservation potential?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 3 Sep 2024
Nakphul (Lantana camara L.),

Government inaction leaves Nepal without strategy to tackle invasive species

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Aug 2024
Close up of the shiny, bulbous brown compound eyes and dark brown and blue thorax of a Gambles's flatwing's (Neurolestes nigeriensis). Image © Jan van Leeuwen.

Search for rare Nigerian damselflies finds forest habitats under threat

Ryan Truscott 22 Aug 2024
Red-throated bee-eaters (Merops bulocki), Pehonko, Benin. Image by Yves Bas via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

Birdsong rings out once again in Togo’s sacred forest of Titiyo

Charles Kolou 7 Aug 2024

As climate change shakes up global map of venomous snakes, health risks abound

Suzana Camargo 5 Aug 2024
A common Jezebel (Delias eucharis).

Scientists are racing to save South Asia’s butterflies from the threat of extinction

Hailey Smalley 31 Jul 2024

Cambodia’s largest mangrove forest is ‘teeming with life,’ biodiversity survey finds

Anton L. Delgado 30 Jul 2024

Rhino poop draws all the deer (and boars and more) to the yard, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jul 2024

Frog ‘saunas’ may help threatened frogs fight off deadly fungus

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2024

New study reaffirms Indigenous lands key to mitigating climate change in Brazil

Sarah Sax 25 Jun 2024

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