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Sarah Oginga harvesting papyrus reeds.

Livelihoods at stake as Lake Victoria’s papyrus swamps come under pressure: Photos

Patrick Newcombe 5 Feb 2024
Yuly Velásquez, an environmental defender from Barrancabermeja.

Courage & calm despite attacks: Q&A with Colombian activist Yuly Velásquez

Aimee Gabay 19 Jan 2024
Unregulated gold mining on a river in, Nowshera, Pakistan. Image courtesy of Sabir Hussain.

Illegal gold mining threatens Indus River water and biodiversity in Pakistan (commentary)

Sabir Hussain 9 Jan 2024
A black bear fishes for salmon.

Salmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Jan 2024

In Brazil’s Caatinga, adapted agroforests are producing food from dry lands

Xavier Bartaburu 3 Jan 2024

In Brazil’s Caatinga, these families excel in farming productivity

Rafael Martins 28 Dec 2023
Two wild Przewalski’s horses (mares), apparently infatuated with a domestic stallion at a farm in Dytiaku, Ukraine

Long-term wildlife impacts at Chornobyl, Fukushima may yield ‘a new ecology’

Annelise Giseburt 21 Dec 2023
An aerial view over the Central Cardamoms National Park, one of several protected areas that constitute the Cardamom Mountains, an evergreen forest situated on the Thai-Cambodia border. In November 2023, the Cambodian government approved the construction of two new hydropower dams in the protected forest. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn 20 Dec 2023
Scarlet tanager. Photo by Jen Goellnitz via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Bird-friendly maple syrup boosts Vermont forest diversity & resilience

Nina Foster 18 Dec 2023

Protecting the Brazilian Caatinga from desertification

Rafael Martins, Xavier Bartaburu 13 Dec 2023
Since 2014, Nerea Turreira-Garcia and Dimitris Argyriou have worked with Indigenous communities in Cambodia's Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary to identify species of flora and their uses to the communities. Image by Nerea Turreira-Garcia and Dimitris Argyriou.

‘Immense body of knowledge’ at stake in Cambodia’s Prey Lang as deforestation soars

Gerald Flynn 13 Dec 2023
A ranger planting a tree.

Wild by nature: Ecological restoration brings humanity and biodiversity together

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Dec 2023

Colombian Amazon park rangers face violence, threats by illegal armed groups

David Tarazona 12 Dec 2023

A community-led strategy to save Brazil’s dry forests from desertification

Xavier Bartaburu 11 Dec 2023
Thailand flood, 2011

Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change

Carolyn Cowan 7 Dec 2023

Amazonian expedition searches out rare ‘fish from the clouds’

Adele Santelli, Images by Gustavo Fonseca 6 Dec 2023

Keeping herbivores at bay helps in early stages of restoration, studies show

Tim Vernimmen 28 Nov 2023
Borneo forest

Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity

Carolyn Cowan 28 Nov 2023
A herd of lantana elephants in London, U.K.

The tricky business of commercializing invasive plants to death

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Nov 2023
Community tree nursery

How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2023

Study shows dire outlook for amphibians: 40% threatened with extinction

Suzana Camargo 20 Nov 2023

New platform offers toolkit for companies to prove their eco claims

Claudia Geib 16 Nov 2023
Prescribed burns conducted by government organizations don’t face the same high cost of fire insurance as private organizations do. Image courtesy of the Virginia Department of Forestry.

As U.S. insurers stop covering prescribed burns, states and communities step up

Ashli Blow 15 Nov 2023

Forest elephants are the ‘glue’ holding Congo rainforests together

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Nov 2023
Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Image by Dr. Jonathan Moore.

To keep track of salmon migrations in real time, First Nations turn to AI

Spoorthy Raman 6 Nov 2023
Cattle and zebras share grazing land inside the Enonkishu Conservancy, southern Kenya. Image by David Njagi for Mongabay.

A mobile solution for Kenyan pastoralists’ livestock is a plus for wildlife, too

David Njagi 6 Nov 2023
Two Antarctic fur seals playing at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia.

Amid record melting, countries fail again to protect Antarctic waters

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2023
The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

South Africa’s penguins heading toward extinction; will no-fishing zones help?

Leonie Joubert 17 Oct 2023

Brazil’s Indigenous communities turn to native beekeeping to recover nature

Elizabeth Oliveira 16 Oct 2023
Mushrooms

Gone before we know them? Kew’s ‘State of the World’s Plants and Fungi’ report warns of extinctions

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2023

Restoring degraded forests may be key for climate, study says

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2023

99% of Caatinga biome could lose plant species due to climate change: Study

Evanildo da Silveira 6 Oct 2023

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