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Artisanal miners in Rubaya area, DRC.

How illicit mining fuels violence in eastern DRC: Interview with Jean-Pierre Okenda

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Feb 2025

January 2025 was warmest on record as climate change ‘overwhelms’ La Niña’s cooling

Shanna Hanbury 6 Feb 2025

Kenya revives poisoning campaign to curb invasive Indian house crows

Gilbert Nakweya 6 Feb 2025

Vietnam and China partner on wildlife-friendly traditional medicine practices

Spoorthy Raman 6 Feb 2025
Banner image of crowned sifaka by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU legislators urge IMF to protect Madagascar forests against road projects

Kristine Sabillo 6 Feb 2025
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Indonesia targets 2.3m hectares of protected forests for food & biofuel crop production

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Feb 2025

Handcrafted woodwork helps save an Amazonian reserve, one tree at a time

Sibélia Zanon 5 Feb 2025

Why is this endangered dolphin being killed to make “love perfumes”? | Wild Targets

Romi Castagnino 5 Feb 2025
A variety of corns and beans native to Mexico.

Expected ban on Mexican GM corn fetches praise — and worry over imports

Adam D. Williams 5 Feb 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Ecuador’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2025

Vietnam faces scrutiny for not sharing enough data on rhino horn trade

Victoria Schneider 5 Feb 2025
Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) photographed in a zoo.

World’s smallest otter makes comeback in Nepal after 185 years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Feb 2025

A cattle ranch is the unlikely scene for saving a fox found only in Brazil

Letícia Klein 5 Feb 2025
Common pochard (Aythya ferina) photographed in Pakistan.

Better government policies could help as migratory birds lose habitat in Bangladesh

Pinky Akter 5 Feb 2025

Indian villages seek to protect ecosystem by opting out of state’s development push

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2025

Kenya wildfire threatens region of rare wildlife, plant species

Dann Okoth 4 Feb 2025
Researchers on one of the field visits to the Näätämö River, remote wilderness areas and the fjord at the outflow to the Arctic Ocean.

Researchers find microplastics for the first time in the Finnish Sámi waters

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 4 Feb 2025

Study highlights effects of habitat fragmentation on Sri Lankan specialist birds

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Feb 2025
Amazonian manatees at a rescue center in Peru.

Amazonian manatees are gardeners of the forests, research shows (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 4 Feb 2025
Banner image of the recent bushfires in Victoria, courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory.

Australia reeling from floods in the north, bushfires in the south

Kristine Sabillo 4 Feb 2025
An acacia plantation in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Researchers make the case for shift from economic growth to human well-being within planetary limits

John Cannon 4 Feb 2025

Brazilian soy farms and cattle pastures close in on a land where the grass is golden

Sibélia Zanon 4 Feb 2025

Indonesia mulls Paris Agreement exit, citing fairness and energy transition costs

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Feb 2025
Banner image of Tropical Cyclone Faida from the Met Office.

Cyclone Elvis kills 5 in Madagascar as another storm approaches

Kristine Sabillo 4 Feb 2025

Indian town trials virtual solar fences to reduce conflict with elephants

Mongabay.com 4 Feb 2025

Mother of 2 jailed in Sumatra as wildfires dragnet continues to catch small farmers

Teguh Suprayitno 4 Feb 2025

Chimps remember, for years, the location of ant nests that provide food

Charles Mpaka 3 Feb 2025
In September, Moo Deng went viral, becoming famous for her playful, no-holds-barred attitude.

Has the Moo Deng craze helped wild pygmy hippos at all? (analysis)

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2025
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
The El Bosque community in Mexico’s Tabasco region has been swallowed up by the sea. Image by Juan Manuel Orozco.

Mexican fishers relocate in wake of sea level rise, raising job concerns

Aimee Gabay 3 Feb 2025
A Pacific wren (Troglodytes pacificus).

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

Jane Palmer 3 Feb 2025

Amazon states lead rebellion on environmental enforcement

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Feb 2025

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