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Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Christiana Figueres & Garik Israelian on Jane Goodall’s legacy and the search for truth

Mike DiGirolamo 1 Sep 2026
A chorten at a rice field in Bhutan.

In Bhutan, a philosophy of happiness guides a push for food self-sufficiency

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Aug 2026

US proposes rescinding Roadless Rule protections for national forests

Bobby Bascomb 25 Aug 2026
Rainstorm over Pillcopata in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

Plans of Peru’s new administration spur concern among environmentalists

Aimee Gabay 25 Aug 2026
A gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) and chick. Penguins in Antarctica face converging threats from krill fishing and climate change. Image courtesy of Shawn Heinrichs.

Antarctic krill fishery closes months early amid increasing fishing pressure

Francesco De Augustinis 24 Aug 2026
Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon in Mato Grosso.

Brazil Supreme Court upholds laws that led to downfall of Amazon soy moratorium

Associated Press 12 Aug 2026
Pokigron and Atjoni villages beside the Suriname River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Suriname moves to evict Mennonites and illegal Amazon settlers

Maxwell Radwin 7 Aug 2026
Onions in jute sacks in Bogra.

Jute loses ground to plastic despite Bangladesh’s packaging law

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 6 Aug 2026
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote. Photo courtesy of The Habari Network.

Environmental activists in Kenya concerned over billionaire’s planned oil refinery

Amina Chombo 5 Aug 2026

Mining threat persists in Raja Ampat, Indonesia’s ‘Amazon of the Seas’

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Aug 2026
David Page wrote about the mountains and worked to protect them

David Page wrote about the mountains and worked to protect them

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Aug 2026

Land records reveal how Mennonites are reshaping Belize’s forests

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jul 2026
A conference attendee. Image courtesy of Smoke Event Photography.

Coral reef experts press on, with climate looming over international conference

Edward Carver 31 Jul 2026

Report: Indonesian authorities weaponize laws to silence environmental and Indigenous defenders

Naina Rao 30 Jul 2026
A young cacao tree in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Forests in Liberia are falling to cocoa, in half a year the EU could ban imports

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Jul 2026
Amazon rainforest burned in Acre, Brazil, to make way for cattle pastures. Image courtesy of Victor Moriyama/Climate Visuals.

Amazon deforestation falls to 10-year low in first half of 2026

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2026
A harpy eagle (*Harpia harpyja*) in Venezuela. Image by Brendan Ryan via ~[Flickr](https://flickr.com/photos/brendan2010/25545049372/in/photolist-EVk4cJ-2omPVLY-2omKZNX-2j4htaw-25LAZVU-nGJGkV-2i25QFe-nYV7zz-2hXj7fq-2omPUYa-2ifbfxX-EVk7tJ-NsQZkV-2ft3wTo-2mqFK8D-7q7A5f-6MkcdD-4EDwkg-4EDxCk-2ioaVzM-4EHFb3-2i8ipxw-4EHGus-mu43Z-4EDz1P-4EHHLf-Mi1zDK-2kmdHQq-4ZkfDk-2km9jzr-4NNc4Z-WF9ysM-27hseZV-FkGRf9-4EHLfW-wAhdDn-Uvi249-hCNU3s-F6NZBe-2ige2fH-F6NPLH-piAioa-E96hfC-N5S2jy-F4uGv9-N5S23S-N5S2Tu-N5S2rC-F6NUy8-E96mpu)~ (~[CC BY-NC-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en)~).

Research offers nature-positive path to end and reverse biodiversity loss

John Cannon 14 Jul 2026
A woman transports a catch of fish from a landing site in coastal Kenya to market. Image by Festo Lumwe/WorldFish.

Why Africa should link nutritional data with fisheries management (commentary)

Essam Yassin Mohammed 14 Jul 2026
Seagrass meadows, pictured above, play a critical role in carbon sequestration and protecting coastlines.

Scientists use AI to produce first high-resolution map of global seagrass extent

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Jul 2026

Thai rubber smallholders race to meet new EU deforestation rules

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2026
Left to right, the Netherlands' Minister for Climate Policy and Green Growth, Stientje van Veldhoven; along with Colombia's Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Irene Vélez Torres; and Ana Toni, COP30 CEO, during the launch of the outcome report from the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels at the London Climate Action Week. Image courtesy of Wilder García/ Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia.

Santa Marta report by 57 nations defines rapid fossil fuel transition path

Julian Reingold 2 Jul 2026
The challenge of finding out who is behind the front includes incursions to remote areas through dirt roads.

Crackdown lets rainforest reclaim illegal road in rare win for the Amazon

Rafael Spuldar 2 Jul 2026
San Mala and the community members document the stumps of freshly cut trees throughout the protected forest in northern Cambodia. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Illegal timber imports from Cambodia, Laos skirt Vietnam safeguards, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 2 Jul 2026

Indonesia’s blackouts reignite debate over coal-dependent energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Jul 2026
An auto rickshaw driver covers his face to protect himself from the pollution in Dhaka

Bangladesh unveils sweeping EV incentives to cut emissions and pollution

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 30 Jun 2026

Women patrol Tanzania’s Pemba waters in a community-led push to protect the sea

David Akana 27 Jun 2026

Asia’s shark and ray hotspots remain poorly protected, study finds

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jun 2026
Bison affect plant growth, nutrient cycling, and fire dynamics through their grazing. Image courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Society.

Wildlife helps regulate the climate & this belongs in policy discussions (commentary)

Jérôme Pinti 24 Jun 2026
Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), Nzérékoré, Guinea. Image by augustofaustino via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Leaked study warns of irreversible damage from iron ore mine in Guinea UNESCO site

Josef Skrdlik, Oliver Dunn 24 Jun 2026
Kusile Power Station, South Africa's largest plant at 4,800 MW, on the outskirts of eMalahleni. Image by Joe Walsh for Mongabay.

Failed promises to clean air in South Africa’s coal belt take toll on public health

Joe Walsh 24 Jun 2026
Rain over the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

South America’s farms depend, in part, on a healthy Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2026
INC Vice Chair Johanna Lissinger-Peitz, Sweden, passes the gavel to new INC Chair Julio Cordano, Chile, in February 2026.

With plastic treaty in limbo, Mongabay speaks to top negotiator Julio Cordano

Charles Pekow 18 Jun 2026

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