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Small islands offer big hope for conservation of endemic species, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 28 Aug 2025

Thailand’s living floral heritage takes root in a park of rare and ancient trees

Ron Emmons 28 Aug 2025
Soy farms in Belterra in the Brazilian Amazon’s Pará state. Image © Leo Correa/AP Photo.

Brazilian court restores Amazon soy moratorium, for now

Shanna Hanbury 28 Aug 2025
Banner image of a firefighter trying to extinguish a wildfire as a helicopter flies over Athens on July 26, 2025, by AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis.

Climate change intensified wildfire weather in Greece, Türkiye and Cyprus: Study

Kristine Sabillo 28 Aug 2025
Giraffes in Uganda’s Kidepo Valley National Park. Image courtesy of Michael Brown.

Giraffe is now officially four species

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Aug 2025
An Indian pond heron or paddybird (Ardeola grayii) in a pond in Nepal.

In Nepal, artificial ponds offer drought relief despite lingering doubts

Mukesh Pokhrel 28 Aug 2025
Flowers and leaves of the Vanda thwaitesii.

After 160 years, an old drawing leads scientists to a long-lost Sri Lanka orchid

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Aug 2025

Deforestation is killing people by raising local temperatures

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Aug 2025

California lawmakers seek to curb oil imports from Amazon

Associated Press 27 Aug 2025
The jaguar nicknamed Gaia, who died when her Pantanal habitat burned. Image courtesy of Ricardo Martins / Caiman Ecological Refuge.

Climate negotiations must begin to prioritize conservation of wetlands like Brazil’s Pantanal (commentary)

Mario Haberfeld, Steve Trent 27 Aug 2025
A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) swims along the Great Barrier Reef off Australia.

Scientists warn ocean-based climate fixes lack rules and oversight

Edward Carver 27 Aug 2025
Hoolock gibbons in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh retreating from development activities planned in forest lands

Abu Siddique 27 Aug 2025
Giant Galápagos tortoises. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

The slow demise of turtles and tortoises

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Aug 2025
A blacktip reef shark. Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Sharks risk losing their bite as oceans turn acidic: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Aug 2025
Fire and deforestation in the Amacro region (the states of Amazonas, Acre and Rondônia) in the Brazilian Amazon in late August 2022. Photo © Nilmar Lage / Greenpeace

In Brazil, invaders set fires in Karipuna Indigenous land, leaders say

Shanna Hanbury 26 Aug 2025
Shark meat is prepared for distribution at CEAGESP in São Paulo city,

Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate

Philip Jacobson, Karla Mendes, Lucas Berti 26 Aug 2025

Mass evacuations in eastern Pakistan as India releases water from swollen rivers

Associated Press 26 Aug 2025
Natalie Kyriacou holding a Tasmanian devil. Image courtesy of Natalie Kyriacou.

The honesty, humor and wonder of ‘Nature’s Last Dance,’ from Natalie Kyriacou

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Aug 2025
Scientist Anneliese Hodge collecting seaweed.

Sunscreens protect us but also pose real planetary health concerns

Sean Mowbray 26 Aug 2025
A white rhino in a community conservation area with tourists in the background. Image courtesy of James Ward / Rewild Safaris.

The safari industry’s ‘conservation-washing’ is a growing problem (commentary)

Tom LaRock 26 Aug 2025
Banner image of a Manapany day gecko by B.navez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Réunion’s ‘rarest’ gecko vanishing from natural areas but appearing in gardens

Kristine Sabillo 26 Aug 2025
Gray parrot. Image by L.Miguel Bugallo Sánchez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

African gray parrots get complete protection in DR Congo

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Aug 2025
A 1.72-meter (5.6-foot), 102-kilogram (225-pound) Mekong giant barb caught in Tonle Sap Lake in December, 2002.

Shrinking Mekong megafish underlines risks to the river, study finds

Anton L. Delgado 26 Aug 2025
Redwood forest in the San Francisco Bay Area in August 2025. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Ecosystems as infrastructure: Tim Christophersen on how to rebuild humanity’s ties to nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Aug 2025

Social media post sparks rediscovery of endemic Sri Lanka rainforest plant

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Aug 2025
False killer whales in the Mediterranean. Image by Vincent Kneefel / Ocean Image Bank.

Why the BBNJ treaty on marine biodiversity matters more in the Mediterranean (commentary)

Camille Loth, Giuseppe Di Carlo 25 Aug 2025

Vietnam evacuates hundreds of thousands as typhoon Kajiki nears landfall

Associated Press 25 Aug 2025
restored area aerial image

Local forest governance helps jaguars and forests flourish in Guatemala

Monica Pelliccia 25 Aug 2025
Waste burning in the Maldives. Open burning of plastic is a cheap way of reducing waste volume, but the practice is rife with health and environmental risks.

Global South bears growing burden of health threats from plastic burning

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2025
An adult leopard shark at the North Stradbroke Island summer aggregation site in Australia. Photo by MV Erdmann

Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2025
Banner image of waves near Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour following Typhoon Wipha, July 20, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Vernon Yuen.

How science links extreme weather disasters to climate change: Interview with WWA’s Clair Barnes

Kristine Sabillo 25 Aug 2025
Rainbow over Jambi, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

How can we make nature’s wellbeing impossible to ignore? For Natalie Kyriacou, it is the defining challenge

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2025

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