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Jailed Vietnamese civil society leader wins award, boosting calls for his release

Jenny Denton 1 Aug 2025

When the sea takes over: Voices from a climate-displaced community in Mexico

Sam Lee 1 Aug 2025
Damaged road littered with broken tree branches after a heavy rain in the Miyun district in the outskirts of Beijing, China. Image © Mahesh Kumar A./AP.

At least 60 dead in northern China due to extreme rainfall and floods

Shanna Hanbury 1 Aug 2025
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Drone swarms and AI take aim at stopping wildfires in 10 minutes

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2025

Uncovering forest loss in gorilla park six months after M23 offensive in the DRC

Elodie Toto, Latoya Abulu 31 Jul 2025

A sales-pitch pivot brings deep-sea mining closer to reality

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Jul 2025
Plastic washed up on a beach in Barcelona.

As UN plastic treaty talks face possible deadlock, what are the ways forward?

Tosca Ballerini 31 Jul 2025
Isidrio Hernandez-Ruiz and his son are participants of the collaborative reforestation trial with Smithsonian and Traditional Leadership.

Indigenous leadership and science revive Panama’s degraded lands

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2025
A view of Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, a small city on the southwest coast. Image courtesy of ICC.

‘Nothing about us without us’: Inuit leader Sara Olsvig on ocean politics

Edward Carver 31 Jul 2025
An Indigenous group in a boat in the Ucayali River.

Recently contacted Indigenous in Peru want REDD+ and conservationists to stay away

Kimberley Brown 31 Jul 2025
Residents transport drinking water from Humaita to the Paraizinho community, along a dry part of the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, amid a drought, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sep. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Report reveals severe impact of last year’s drought on Amazonian communities

Aimee Gabay 31 Jul 2025
Birds captured by traders at a temple in Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/ Mongabay

Illegal pet trade in Nepal now shifting online, research suggests

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jul 2025
A Cape clawless otter. Image by Mark Paxton via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

First record of Cape clawless otter preying on African penguins: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2025
John Robbins in his 70s. Image courtesy of the Food Revolution Network.

John Robbins, heir to an ice cream empire who chose a life of principle, dies at 77

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2025
A leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea).

Malaysia’s turtle egg buyback scheme saved thousands — but is it sustainable?

Keith Anthony Fabro 31 Jul 2025
A Bornean orangutan in a fruiting fig tree. Image courtesy of 1StopBorneo Wildlife.

Arboreal camera traps reveal wildlife feasting on Borneo’s fruiting fig trees

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jul 2025
Mobula munkiana rays in the Sea of Cortez. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Guarding Mexico’s blue frontiers: A conversation with Alejandro González

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jul 2025
The Indigenous Tompoun community celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day in 2024. Image courtesy of Tompoun Culture.

How Cambodia’s new environmental code undermines Indigenous peoples’ rights (commentary)

Rithy Bun 30 Jul 2025
Miners work at a legal mining concession in Huaypetue, Madre de Dios, Peru. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Mexico’s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2025
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More than 10,000 species on brink of extinction need urgent action: Study

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2025
Banner image of stream restoration being done in Aarhus, Denmark. Image courtesy of Casper Tybjerg/TTF.

Ambitious Denmark project starts farm-to-forest conversion

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jul 2025
Researchers Dušan Materić, left, and Helge Niemann, right, collecting water samples in the North Atlantic Ocean. Image courtesy of NIOZ.

Scientists use the ‘smell of burned plastic’ to measure nanoplastics in the ocean

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jul 2025

As Indonesia reclaims forests from palm oil, smallholders bear brunt of enforcement

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jul 2025
Gharial hatchlings. Image courtesy of Surya P. Sharma.

Rising heat threatens female-male ratio of India’s unique gharial crocs

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2025

Domestic cats pose interbreeding threat to little known wildcat ancestor

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2025
Coral reef in the Sea of Cortez. Photo courtesy of Legacy Works.

Forget decrees; try patience. Martin Goebel plays the long game in conserving Baja California Sur

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jul 2025
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous knowledge & agroecology must be at the center of food system transformation (commentary)

Juan Lucas Restrepo 29 Jul 2025
River in the Kosnipata valley, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Empathy and spiritual ecology are a conservation solution and ‘radical cure’

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Jul 2025
Hamid Moradi. Photo courtesy of the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.

Hamid Moradi, died on July 25th after battling a forest fire in Iranian Kurdistan, aged 36

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jul 2025

Killing barred owls to save spotted owls

Bobby Bascomb 29 Jul 2025

Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation

Associated Press 29 Jul 2025
Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025

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