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Coral garden on the bow of the Saratoga. Photo by Greg Asner.

Guns, Corals and Steel: Are Nuclear Shipwrecks a Biodiversity Hotspot?

Greg Asner 28 Apr 2019

Brazil Supreme Court land demarcation decision sparks indigenous protest

Karla Mendes 26 Apr 2019

Phasepardhis and the lesser florican (commentary)

Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee Bajpai 26 Apr 2019
A shark catch in Pucusana, Perú. Image courtesy of Oceana.

Weak governance undermines South America’s ocean ecosystems

Michelle Carrere 26 Apr 2019

Large emperor penguin colony suffers ‘catastrophic’ breeding failure

Mongabay.com 26 Apr 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, April 26, 2019

Mongabay.com 26 Apr 2019

That Malagasy forest featured in Netflix’s ‘Our Planet’? It’s vanishing fast

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Apr 2019

Ocean winds, wave heights have increased around the world

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2019

Survey: Less coal, more solar, say citizens of Belt & Road countries

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2019

Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 25 Apr 2019

Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world’s rarest birds

Hannah Thomasy 25 Apr 2019

Indonesia electricity chief charged with bribery over coal-fired power plant

Basten Gokkon 25 Apr 2019

Killer whale vs. great white? No contest — the shark always flees

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2019

The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2019

‘Judas’ snakes lead scientists on a high-tech Easter egg hunt for pythons

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Apr 2019

Bolsonaro draws battle lines in fight over Amazon indigenous lands

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 24 Apr 2019
Indonesian rainforest. Photo for Mongabay by Rhett A. Butler.

Not in my backyard: Indonesian official fights corrupt palm concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Apr 2019

In Indonesia, a paper giant shuffles a litany of land conflicts

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Apr 2019

Indonesia trains its citizens to deal with sea-mammal strandings

Basten Gokkon 24 Apr 2019

Bird flu in Namibia’s penguins wanes, after killing nearly 500

John Cannon 24 Apr 2019

Virus may have caused mysterious foot disease in Chile’s rare huemul deer

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2019
A worker at Myo Myat Mon Co. rice factory sorts rice husk bricks. Photo by Victoria Milko.

Can rice husk briquettes stem the tide of mangrove deforestation in Myanmar?

Wudan Yan 23 Apr 2019

Camera trap study finds a threatened high-elevation mammal community in Peru

Mike Gaworecki 23 Apr 2019

Less rainforest, less rain: A cautionary tale from Borneo

Jeremy Hance 23 Apr 2019

Report finds World Bank’s coal divestment pledge not stringent enough

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Apr 2019
Sri Lanka Green Pit Viper

Study documents how Sri Lanka’s protected reptiles are traded as pets

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Apr 2019

Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

John Cannon 22 Apr 2019

The extinction clock ticks for the little-known Philippine pangolin

Imelda Abano 22 Apr 2019

Sage spending to save species (commentary)

Fred Launay 22 Apr 2019
The youngest Cat Ba langur, which was recorded last week, sits with its mother atop a limestone tower, while a juvenile langur climbs nearby. Photo by Neahga Leonard for the Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project.

On one island, a microcosm of Vietnam’s environmental challenges

Michael Tatarski 22 Apr 2019
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Peat protection rule may be a double-edged sword for Indonesia’s forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Apr 2019
Jane Goodall. Photo credit: Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall on Leonardo DiCaprio, her 85th birthday, and the need for hope

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2019

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