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Vietnam is now the top producer of robusta beans used in cheap and instant coffee blends, but it carries a huge cost for Vietnamese communities and forests. Image courtesy of Quinn Mattingly/Panos Pictures/Unfold Stories.

Cheap coffee is killing Vietnam’s priceless tropical forests (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 3 Aug 2026

Land records reveal how Mennonites are reshaping Belize’s forests

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jul 2026

Sri Lanka prepares for impending El Niño with traditional and new approaches

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 31 Jul 2026
Deforestation and the enteric fermentation from the cattle that supply its slaughterhouses comprise 97% of JBS' overall greenhouse emissions, according to the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022. Even so, these impacts were ignored by the company's climate targets. Image courtesy of Marcio Isensee e Sá/O Eco.

Before giant meat producer JBS expands to Nigeria, people deserve answers (commentary)

Felix Horne 31 Jul 2026
Tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), Amazon, Brazil. Image by w_endo via iNaturalist.

Fishers fight for solutions as Brazil lists tambaqui as threatened

Karla Mendes 28 Jul 2026

In southern India, beekeeping helps Indigenous women earn more

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2026
Aerial view showing cattle confinement in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the ecosystems affected by illegal deforestation. Image courtesy of Fernando Martinho/Goldman Environmental Prize.

Meat giant JBS silently ditches bolder environmental targets in latest review

Shanna Hanbury 16 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
A striped dolphin caught in a driftnet off the Azores, North Atlantic.


Seeking swordfish, catching dolphins and whales: EU pushes to rein in driftnets

Victoria Schneider 8 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
Lentinus squarrosulus mushrooms. Image by Vengolis via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers in Nigeria successfully cultivate wild mushroom in agricultural waste

David Brown 3 Jul 2026
A jimbu (Allium przewalskianum) in the Tibetan Plateau.

What’s jimbu? The herb that bolsters an iconic Nepali dish could also help save snow leopards

Bibek Bhandari 30 Jun 2026
Four men stand in muddy water holding a brown fishnet full of fish.

Aquatic animal and terrestrial meat trades now almost on par, FAO report finds

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Jun 2026
A whitespotted eagle ray in its natural habitat. Understanding the diet of predators is crucial to figure out the resources they depend on and the pressure it puts on prey.

Chewing sounds can help decode an animal’s diet using AI, new study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Jun 2026
Cocoa producer Giovanne holds a native Amazon species, which is naturally resistant to pests and extreme weather. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto.

Amazon floodplains cocoa offers a climate-resilient and sustainable chocolate

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto 25 Jun 2026

New analysis breaks down 2025 Amazon deforestation, with good news and bad news

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2026
A humpback whale fluke.

Protect Antarctic krill to preserve the health of Africa’s coastal communities (commentary)

Carmen dos Santos 17 Jun 2026

How one woman’s farm is a model for small-scale farmers in Malawi

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026
Purple sea urchin on the Gaiola MPA sea floor. Image courtesy of Maurizio Simeone.

How a popular spaghetti dish is threatening Italy’s marine ecosystem

Manuela Callari 16 Jun 2026
Birds like the white-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus), which builds its nests in the hollows of tall trees, can no longer find them for nesting. Image by Fernando Flores via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Growing appetite for açaí is damaging bird diversity in the Amazon

Suzana Camargo 15 Jun 2026
Train hauling coal between Moatize and Nacala in 2018. Image by Matthias Hille via Wikicommons (CC BY 4.0)

Improved transport opens Mozambique’s forests to new pressures

Mkhululi Chimoio 11 Jun 2026
Residents in East Lombok plant mangroves. Image by Ahmad H. Ramdhani/Mongabay Indonesia.

In Indonesia’s Lombok, fishers find food security tied to mangrove reforestation

Ahmad H. Ramdhani 11 Jun 2026
Small children from Rira village stand by the roadside near their humble home.

New study suggests Ethiopia’s protected areas may be impacting local well-being

Solomon Yimer 10 Jun 2026

Indonesia’s grassroots farmers face increased unpredictability, experts say

Naina Rao 10 Jun 2026
A woman holds up land tenure certificates in Chipata, Zambia (2017). Image by USAID via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Movement gives African rural women farmers a voice, but still battles landownership

Charles Mpaka 9 Jun 2026
Diane Sitima at her farm. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

In Malawi, one woman’s farm shows what’s possible with land and support

Charles Mpaka 4 Jun 2026
The blue shark is one of the widest-ranging sharks in the world, and its meat is the most commonly traded in commercial markets. Image courtesy of Prochym/Adobe Stock.

Shark Meat Nation

1 Jun 2026
Lake Victoria in Kenya. Image by Jozef020 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Kenyan communities protest planned nuclear plant near Lake Victoria

Elodie Toto 22 May 2026

Wild animal consumption on the rise in Central Africa, study finds

David Akana 21 May 2026
A farmer collects dried salt from his field, carefully filling baskets to store them in nearby pits for processing.

Bangladesh salt farmers struggle as climate shifts disrupt harvests

Sifayet Ullah 20 May 2026
A boy gathers water in Kalokol, with submerged palm trees behind. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Rising waters and mounting pressures collide on Kenya’s Lake Turkana

Christopher Clark 19 May 2026
Fisherman James Lekubo on Lake Turkana. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

‘Turkana has always adapted to change’: Interview with environmentalist Ikal Angelei

Christopher Clark 19 May 2026

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