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Move over bears. Fat Marmot Week puts a spotlight on the alpine rodents

Associated Press 21 Aug 2026
Aerial view of the Cuanavale river, which runs through the Angolan Highlands and joins the Cuito River. Image courtesy of Zach Vincent for National Geographic.

Angola’s peatlands highly underestimated, new study suggests

Victoria Schneider 21 Aug 2026
Japanese fire-bellied newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster).

How ‘gentle power’ can preserve traditional biodiversity in Tokyo

Annelise Giseburt 21 Aug 2026
Found across the Canary Islands, the scarlet sea fan (Leptogorgia ruberrima) is a soft octocoral that provides shelter and food for many fish and other marine organisms. Image by thorsten72 via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Spain proposes 23 new marine protected areas in the Canary Islands and Mediterranean

Francesco De Augustinis 21 Aug 2026
Many think of wildlife corridors as connected landscapes, but across the globe, animals on land, in freshwater, in the sea and in the skies need to be able to safely move to find food, water, to find a mate and reproduce. Flyways are aerial avian corridors. Image by AP Photos/Jae C. Hong.

Reconnecting the skies: Linking flyways for migratory seabirds across continents

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Aug 2026
A vendor cools herself with a portable electric fan as she waits for customers at her souvenirs store, in Beijing, China, Tuesday, June 2, 2026.

Six things to know about Asia’s heatwave and the health impacts

Andrew Jeong 21 Aug 2026

This tiny Thai lizard shares its name with a ‘House of the Dragon’ beast

Naina Rao 21 Aug 2026

Hermit crabs and cockroaches emerge as unlikely seed dispersers on a Japanese island

Naina Rao 21 Aug 2026
A black-bellied pangolin rescued from poachers, released by the Sangha Pangolin Project in the Central African Republic. Image courtesy of Rod Cassidy via iNaturalist, CC BY-NC.

To secure protected areas from wildlife trafficking, criminal networks must be dismantled (commentary)

Ofir Drori 20 Aug 2026
Representatives of the Huitoto and Ticuna indigenous communities

Drugs are becoming institutionalized: Interview with Ticuna leader in Peru’s Amazon

Aimee Gabay 20 Aug 2026

Climate change drove extreme July heat in European seas, study finds

Naina Rao 20 Aug 2026
Wilfrido Arends, 46, an Indigenous Wayuu fisher known locally as “Caracas,” scans the horizon as he steers the onboard motor of his small fishing boat. Image by Euan Wallace.

Indigenous fishers rethink shark hunting & protect species on Colombia’s coast

Euan Wallace 20 Aug 2026

Sloth bears help shape India’s dry forests as unlikely seed dispersers

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2026
Red Sea coastal landscape. Image courtesy of Marwan Mahmoud Kamal Hamdoun.

Egypt’s deserts show why ecological knowledge matters in conservation (commentary)

Marwan Mahmoud Kamal Hamdoun 19 Aug 2026
Members of the Kāi Tahu marine ranger team return from harvesting seaweed. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model

Edward Carver 19 Aug 2026
Young male puma crosses a public road. The presence of pumas — aka cougars, mountain lions, etc. — push deer away from roads into less populated areas, reducing road collisions. Image by Nick Garbutt.

Cougars cut deadly vehicle-deer collisions in the US by up to 76%, study shows

Starre Vartan 19 Aug 2026

Why carbon markets alone won’t save Southeast Asia’s concessions forests

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2026
The siruk, or Mindoro boobook (Ninox mindorensis), in Puerto Galera.

Elders, conservationists race to record fading sacred ties to Philippines’ endemic birds

Keith Anthony Fabro 18 Aug 2026
Green sea turtle swimming in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Image by ©Commonwealth of Australia (Reef Authority), photographer J. Sumerling. CC BY 4.0.

On the Great Barrier Reef, management by Traditional Owners is growing

Cat Williams 18 Aug 2026

A looming rock collapse threatens a Swiss village as thawing permafrost destabilizes the Alps

Associated Press 18 Aug 2026
Lizulu Market in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe

Indigenous food sovereignty is one of the most overlooked conservation strategies (commentary)

Gemma Sethsmith, Brijlal Chaudhari 18 Aug 2026

On an Indonesian island, an ancient ritual evolves to protect an endangered cockatoo

Basten Gokkon 18 Aug 2026

As an industry and a cooking ingredient, seaweed is gaining ground in Brazil

Letícia Klein 18 Aug 2026

Indonesia leads global tally of abuses linked to Chinese transition-mineral investments

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Aug 2026
Henry Carey holds up shells while diving for conch off the coast of McLean's Town, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, in 2022.

Mobile queen conch hatcheries strive to help the species, engage Caribbean communities

André Habet 18 Aug 2026
A solar power plant beside farmland and salt pans in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.

Despite energy crisis, Bangladesh’s factories are slow to adopt solar power: Study

Md Asaduz Zaman 18 Aug 2026
Malawian farmer Laston Mchiswe watering cabbage that he will sell to markets in the nearby city of Blantyre to earn money for food for his own family. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Land crisis and ‘green revolution’ practices trap millions of Malawi’s farmers

Charles Mpaka 18 Aug 2026
A migrant worker in a cacao farm in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘Cocoa fever’ in Liberia’s Grand Gedeh is wiping out native forests

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2026

Lake Powell hits record low, threatening key water and electricity supply for millions

Associated Press 17 Aug 2026
Residents at Paraíso Grande riverine community, located 30 minutes by fast boat from the city of Humaitá, say the risk of accidents with big convoys increases during the Madeira River’s high-water season, when its banks are flooded.. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Fatal barge crashes fuel fear over Madeira River waterway expansion in Brazil

Karla Mendes 17 Aug 2026
Night view of Handa Biomass Power Plant

Concerns grow over ‘green’ biomass power in Japan after spate of accidents

Nithin Coca 17 Aug 2026
A jaguarundi at a zoo in Germany.

Increasingly rare: Jaguarundi moves up a notch on the endangered species list

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2026

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