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A fisherwoman fishing using cage aquaculture.

Is it safe to eat? Bangladesh fish exposed to hormones, antibiotics and toxic waste

Rafiqul Islam 21 Mar 2023
Fishermen going fishing at Dunga beach, Kisumu.

Kenyan science interns turn Lake Victoria’s fish waste into oil and flowers

Mactilda Mbenywe 17 Mar 2023

Will new bottom trawling rules do enough to protect South Pacific seamounts?

Edward Carver 7 Mar 2023

Three small steps for mankind, one giant leap for the climate

Juliette Portala 2 Mar 2023
Frozen albacore tuna on a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. grocery chains flunk sustainability, human rights tests for tuna sourcing

Monica Evans 21 Feb 2023
Traditional fishing boats on a Lombok beach.

On Lombok, rising sea levels force fishers into different jobs

Falahi Mubarok 20 Feb 2023
People in San Juan Raya decided to join a research project to grow agave for mezcal sustainably. Image by Noel Rojo for Mongabay.

Amid global mezcal craze, scientists and communities try out sustainable plantations

Magdaléna Rojo 10 Feb 2023
Blacktip sharks and remoras.

Study: Paying fishers to ease off sharks and rays is cost-effective conservation

Cassie Freund 6 Feb 2023
A southern stingray.

Good fisheries management, if enforced, can help sharks and rays recover

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Feb 2023
Sheep grazing.

Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for February 2023

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2023
Drone view of a salmon farm.

Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

Francesco De Augustinis 26 Jan 2023
Juvenile Salmon in Estuary. Image by Travish Campbell via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

As sea lice feast away on dwindling salmon, First Nations decide the fate of salmon farms

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jan 2023
A crab-eating frog.

EU demand for frogs’ legs raises risks of local extinctions, experts warn

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023
Chumki Mondol, a farmer.

Degraded soil threatens to exacerbate Bangladesh food crisis

Abu Siddique 30 Dec 2022
Anniqa Law Chung-kiu, conservation project manager for The Nature Conservancy Hong Kong.

Restoring Hong Kong’s oyster reefs, one abandoned oyster farm at a time

Peter Yeung 30 Dec 2022
The Long Xing 621, one of DOF’s boats, hauls up a shark.

Dalian Ocean Fishing, subject of Mongabay probe, now sanctioned by U.S.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Dec 2022
Reginaldo Oliveira.

In Brazil’s agricultural heartland, rivers run dry as monoculture advances

Ana Ionova 14 Dec 2022
A shark with remoras.

Shark-fishing gear banned across much of Pacific in conservation ‘win’

Philip Jacobson 8 Dec 2022
Farmers harvesting eggplants.

In Bangladesh, popular eggplant comes with a side of lead. And cadmium

Abu Siddique 29 Nov 2022
Wader chick

Probe finds Vietnam faltering in bid to curb wildlife trade, animal suffering

Carolyn Cowan 23 Nov 2022
Millet harvest in the Nyando climate-smart villages.

Breaking free from photosynthesis: Will high-tech foods save nature?

Sue Branford 11 Nov 2022

No requiem for sharks just yet as nations push to protect species from trade

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Nov 2022

Negotiations to conserve Antarctic Ocean end in stalemate on many issues

Francesco De Augustinis 7 Nov 2022
Aerial photo of thick rainforest and the plowed fields of crops.

Growing soy on cattle pasture can eliminate Amazon deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 4 Nov 2022
A New Zealand deep sea trawler.

New Zealand convicts company of illegal trawling in high seas restricted area

Edward Carver 31 Oct 2022
Fishermen making hilsa nets.

Saving the economically important hilsa fish comes at a cost to Bangladesh fishers

Abu Siddique 28 Oct 2022
Sea spaghetti in a kelp forest.

Europe considers large-scale seaweed farming; environmental effects unknown

Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams, Tristen Taylor 21 Oct 2022
Penguins in the Antarctic.

Fish-feed industry turns to krill, with unknown effects on the Antarctic ecosystem

Francesco De Augustinis 19 Oct 2022
Panama restricts information on sanctioned boats, evading transparency

Panama restricts information on sanctioned boats, evading transparency

Mary Triny Zea, Michelle Carrere 14 Oct 2022
Panama: A ‘flag of convenience’ for illegal fishing and lack of control at sea

Panama: A ‘flag of convenience’ for illegal fishing and lack of control at sea

Mary Triny Zea, Michelle Carrere 13 Oct 2022

Labor groups seek to build on Indonesian palm oil court win in new cases

Grace Dungey 3 Oct 2022

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