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

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2026
A golden-crowned sifaka in Madagascar. Image courtesy of Association Fanamby.

100 species on the brink get a $200m conservation lifeline

Shanna Hanbury 14 Aug 2026
Industrial complex surrounded by urban forest in Duisburg, Germany. Image courtesy of Jakub Żerdzicki via Pexels.

Carbon accounting differences can halve a company’s reported footprint, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 13 Aug 2026
Adam Falk at Jahoo Gibbon Camp within Keo Seima Sanctuary in Cambodia. Photo courtesy of WCS.

What conservation looks like from the outside: A conversation with Adam Falk after his first year as CEO of WCS

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2026
Mariano Cenamo. Photo by Renato Stockler / Folha Press

Mariano Cenamo, advocate for a sustainable Amazon bioeconomy, has died, aged 46

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2026
Oriental pied hornbill

Carbon markets alone won’t keep Southeast Asia’s forests standing, study says

Carolyn Cowan 4 Aug 2026
Baraka Moruri plays with an avocado tree at their home in Nairobi. Photo by Lawrine Moruri.

Kenyan teen leads charge on tree planting and climate awareness

Lynet Otieno 29 Jul 2026
The village of Phozi, Eastern Cape. Image by Anna Weekes for Mongabay.

‘The shape of the land will change:’ South African villages resist heavy sands mine

Anna Weekes 28 Jul 2026
Oak trees in a temperate forest in the higher altitudes of the Sierra Gorda, where more than 30 species of oak trees can be found. Photo by Roberto Pedraza Ruiz.

How carbon markets can succeed & also serve Global South communities (commentary)

Pati Ruiz Corzo 27 Jul 2026
Mobilization of residents of Kitombe village in the DRC during demonstrations on May 6 and 7 against the oil company Perenco. Image courtesy of Alphonse Khonde.

‘We couldn’t breathe’: DRC villagers revive protest against Perenco over pollution

Elodie Toto 21 Jul 2026
Women and youth entrepreneurs in Kenya receiving training in clean cooking techniques. Image courtesy of UNDP Kenya.

Clean cooking expands at record pace in Africa, but lags behind population growth

Ini Ekott 20 Jul 2026

White-rumped vulture returns to a Cambodian sanctuary after a decade’s absence

Naina Rao 20 Jul 2026

War heightens isolation of Iran’s scientists

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2026
Drone capturing a raptor in flight over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)

João Gabriel de Araujo Oliveira 15 Jul 2026
Indigenous peoples sing and dance as they participate in an opening ceremony as part of the People's Summit offsite from the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 12, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. Image by AP Photo/Fernando Llano.

A fraction of promised climate money reaches Amazon communities: Interview with Latimpacto’s leaders

Beverley Choo 8 Jul 2026
A greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), pictured here in France.

War reveals the isolation of Iran’s scientists

John Cannon 6 Jul 2026
A farmer in Mwanza district: the Malawi chapter of the Rural Women’s Assembly works to help women like these learn how to practice agroforestry, protect soil health, and secure loans to improve their farms. Image by Swathi Sridharan/ICRISAT via Flick (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Malawi agroecologists see opportunity in Gulf fertilizer supply disruption

Charles Mpaka 3 Jul 2026
An experimental line of orange corn enriched with provitamin A, harvested in Zambia. Photo by CIMMYT via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Zambia’s bumper harvest masks likely food insecurity amid geopolitics and climate threats

Chisapi Kumbutso 3 Jul 2026
Two images captured by LiDAR at different times and overlaid: one of young tree seedlings (pink), the other of the trees (blue) after two years of growth.

Laser scanning forests may boost carbon estimates, but credibility questions linger

Shradha Triveni 26 Jun 2026
Mangroves along Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast. Image by Malavika Vyawahare/Mongabay.

Our Ocean Conference in Kenya ends with $6.4 billion in pledges, review of past promises

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jun 2026
A mangrove-rich coastal landscape in Tanzania. Protecting and restoring mangrove ecosystems is a cornerstone of community-led marine conservation efforts across East Africa. Photo courtesy of Mwambao Coastal Community Network.

Africa’s community-led marine organizations on which 30×30 depends

David Akana 17 Jun 2026
The forest of Marston Vale in Bedfordshire in the U.K. where restoration efforts have yielded positive results for biodiversity and the community.

Can a new methodology save the carbon market?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Jun 2026
A man transports jute in Bangladesh. The country is the world’s second-largest producer and the top exporter of jute.

Jute waste may cut Bangladesh’s import bill as researchers make ink, graphene

Md Jahidul Islam 11 Jun 2026

Kenya is Africa’s first country to receive crucial climate disaster funding

Lynet Otieno 11 Jun 2026
Wild horses gallop on the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation near McDermitt, Nevada. Image by AP Photo / Rick Bowmer.

U.S. defense spending on critical minerals surges in the last decade

Aimee Gabay 10 Jun 2026
Harbor seals

Fisheries and climate research would be hit hard in Trump’s proposed budget

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jun 2026

In Brazil, a project paying farmers for forests is looking to scale up

Constance Malleret 1 Jun 2026
Deforestation for oil palm plantation in Borneo, Indonesia.

IMF lending programs linked with deforestation should be rethought (commentary)

Timon Forster, Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, Kevin P. Gallagher 29 May 2026
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The Amazon’s path from crisis to durability

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2026
A glass octopus, a nearly transparent species whose only visible features are its optic nerve, eyeballs and digestive tract.

As economic case for deep-sea mining weakens, industry should halt urgency to begin operation (commentary)

Andy Whitmore 28 May 2026
Black-flanked Rock Wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) in Cape Range National Park, Western Australia, Australia. The Australian Government has classed this wallaby as endangered under the EPBC Act. Image by Dsyzdek (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Australia is failing to meet its environment targets, argues ecologist

Mike DiGirolamo 26 May 2026

Brazil has protected much of the Amazon. It now has to pay for it.

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 May 2026

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