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A deep-sea cucumber among polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Image courtesy of ROV-Team GEOMAR/ROV KIEL 6000/GEOMAR.

US deep-sea mining claims in Pacific’s high seas now rival the area set aside by international regulator

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Andrés Alegría 20 Oct 2026
Maasai at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Image by Omar Gurnah via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Finance and Indigenous rights top Africans’ agenda as biodiversity summit opens in Yerevan

Ashoka Mukpo, John Cannon, Latoya Abulu, Terna Gyuse 19 Oct 2026

Anatomy of a land grab: the law, likes, and legislator behind an Indigenous land invasion in Brazil

Aimee Gabay, Elisângela Mendonça 19 Oct 2026
A Williams electric blue day gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi). Image by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay.

Conservation is bringing species back. Governments must help those gains last

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Oct 2026
Nyaradzo Auxilia Hoto rose from a frontline ranger with Zimbabwe’s Akashinga to a leadership role as a sergeant before becoming a biodiversity officer. Photo courtesy of Akashinga.

The uplifting story of one of Zimbabwe’s pioneering women rangers

David Akana 16 Oct 2026
The Makhado mine’s coal-handling and processing plant (CHPP). Image courtesy of MC Mining.

South African coal mine advances amid legal challenge and mounting water concerns

Elaine Mills 14 Oct 2026
Aerial view of Arizona border wall construction where tree sit protests have been occurring. Image courtesy of the author.

Activists cite ecological, social connections in blocking US border wall construction (commentary)

Meg Perret 8 Oct 2026
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong

Gerald Flynn 29 Sep 2026

Philippines is the deadliest country in Asia for environmental defenders, report finds

Naina Rao 28 Sep 2026
Giraffe inside the Sera Conservancy in northern Kenya. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo / Mongabay.

New report reveals the environmental cost of USAID’s destruction

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Sep 2026
A man carries a backpack on a trek in the Annapurna Conservation Area in Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/ Mongabay.

Two decades on, Nepal’s conservationists search for new ‘dream’ generation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Sep 2026

Critics question oil and gas spending in Mexico’s proposed climate budget

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2026

Honoring Jane Goodall’s conservation legacy and combatting misinformation

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2026
Herring are unloaded from a fishing boat in Rockland, Maine, in 2015.

US move to loosen restrictions on fishing could harm vital ecosystems, experts warn

Jules Struck 18 Sep 2026

As drought shrinks Sri Lanka’s water holes, poisoning poses threat to wildlife

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Sep 2026

Venezuela’s historic oil deal with the US reignites environmental, human rights concerns

Maxwell Radwin 16 Sep 2026

Indigenous territories maintain Amazon forest just as well as protected areas, study finds

Aimee Gabay 8 Sep 2026

Bhutan’s pursuit of happiness takes root on its farms

Mongabay.com 7 Sep 2026
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

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