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Gregg Treinish in Botswana's Okavango. Photo by Shah Selbe

Turning outdoor exploration into environmental discovery: Gregg Treinish and the rise of Adventure Scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Nov 2025
Humpback whale tail, Reunion Island. Image courtesy of François Baelen/Ocean Image Bank.

Mongabay launches dedicated Oceans Desk to expand global reporting on marine ecosystems

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2025
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands

Gloria Pallares 11 Nov 2025
Fishing boats with nets, Grenada, Caribbean Credit: Hugh Whyte / Ocean Image Bank.

Embrace ‘blue’ foods as a climate strategy at COP30, fisheries ministers say (commentary)

André de Paula, Salvador Malheiro 11 Nov 2025

Radioactive rhinos (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 11 Nov 2025
Thomas J.K.L. Koroma II, paramount chief of Sitta Chiefdom, signs the revenue-sharing carbon agreement. Image courtesy of Namati.

Sierra Leone communities sign carbon agreement based on carbon justice principles

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Nov 2025

Coal-dependent South Africa struggles to make just energy transition real

Anna Weekes 11 Nov 2025

The price of gold: In Venezuela, mining threatens Indigenous Pemón

Catherine Ellis 11 Nov 2025

Chilean pulp giant Arauco’s history of pollution trails it to Brazil biodiversity site

Tainah Ramos 11 Nov 2025
An Indigenous man takes part in a demonstration in defense of the Amazon during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, in Beléem, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Brazil hosts COP30 with high ambitions — and scaling environmental ambiguities

Carla Ruas 10 Nov 2025
Indigenous guide at Sani Isla in the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

To fix the climate, simply empower Indigenous people (commentary)

Kiki Taufik 10 Nov 2025
Algal bloom in the Baltic Sea on July 20, 2019.

‘Not good’: Ocean losing its greenness, threatening food webs

Edward Carver 10 Nov 2025
Technicians in Zimbabwe inspect solar panels. Image © UNDP Zimbabwe.

What does the just energy transition mean for Africa?

John Cannon 10 Nov 2025
Morocco’s Noor-Ouarzazate Solar power complex. Image by Michael Taylor/IRENA via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

African summit seeks clean energy future to combat climate change impacts

Christophe Assogba, Modeste Dossou 10 Nov 2025
Coal truck

Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support

Jeff Hutton 10 Nov 2025
Natural forests, like this one in Indonesia, contain hundreds of native species that all contribute to the ecosystem services they provide. Protecting standing forests is quicker and cheaper than replanting lost ones. Many forests can regenerate on their own with a little assistance, but where tree planting is needed, it must aim to restore natural diversity and support local communities. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Tech for the Trees

Mongabay.com 10 Nov 2025
Brianna Fruean is an advocate for climate justice and part of the Council of Elders for the Pacific Climate Warriors, or 350 Pacific. Image by Brianna Fruean.

Healing life on Earth begins with healing our bonds: Voices from the land (commentary)

Brianna Fruean 10 Nov 2025
People in the Amazon rainforest understory. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A blueprint for communicating about the Amazon rainforest (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Nov 2025
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Three tracks to rescue 1.5°C: fossil exit, forest protection, and nature’s carbon (commentary)

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho 8 Nov 2025
Logging operation in Sweden. Image courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

Why Sweden’s forest policy matters to the world (commentary)

Emil Siekkinen 7 Nov 2025

Cautious optimism greets new global forest fund at COP30

David Akana 7 Nov 2025

After 6 years, trial in Indigenous forest guardian killing pushed to 2026

Karla Mendes 7 Nov 2025
Asian golden cat caught on camera in Nepal.

Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats

Sean Mowbray 7 Nov 2025

Study finds deforestation fuels West Africa’s water crisis

David Akana 7 Nov 2025
TFFF roundtable in Belém, Brazil on Nov. 6. Image courtesy of Fernando Donasci/MMA.

COP30 tropical forest fund may drive debt and deforestation, groups warn

Shanna Hanbury 7 Nov 2025

New pledge, old problems as Indonesia’s latest Indigenous forest promise draws skepticism

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2025
Video of a brown rat catching a bat at Segeberger Kalkberg. Image courtesy of Gloza-Rausch et al., 2025 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Europe’s under-pressure bats face ‘astonishing’ threat: Ambush by rats

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2025
Featured image: The amendment to the organized crime law is criticized by prosecutors. In the image, nine clandestine airstrips detected by a Mongabay Latam investigation that affect the territories of two indigenous communities in the central jungle of Peru. Satellite image: Earth Genome / Mongabay Latam.

Across the Amazon, impunity among politicians remains chronic

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Nov 2025

Indigenous delegates prepare for COP30 with focus on justice, land and finance

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 7 Nov 2025

UNESCO biosphere listing raises hope, questions for Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Nov 2025

Expedition charts Cook Islands seafloor, amid scrutiny over mining motives

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Nov 2025

Researchers define the importance of the ‘circular seabird economy’

Bobby Bascomb 6 Nov 2025

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