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Unwrapping deforestation: Your chocolate Easter bunny may harm the environment

Elisângela Mendonça 3 Apr 2026
Nickel mining on Manuran Island. Image courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.

Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Apr 2026
The only water left for human and livestock to share in Berano Wereda, Homay Kebele of Ethiopia's Somali region. Image by © FAO/Michael Tewelde.

‘Sharing is off the table’ as drought reshapes the culture of Ethiopia’s pastoralists

Kaleab Girma 1 Apr 2026

In Peru, Indigenous women work to save an ancestral potato from disappearance

Astrid Arellano 31 Mar 2026
Research finds that there are already places on Earth where it gets so hot and humid at times during the year that it’s unsafe for either younger or older adults to do more than lie down or sit outdoors. Photo by NOAA.

Global warming already impacts daily lives around the globe, study finds

Mike Gaworecki 30 Mar 2026
The Zanette in the Gqeberha harbour, offloading its catch into a truck belonging to the DSL permit-holder, Fisherman Fresh CC. Image courtesy of Enrico Gennari.

Investigation of permit violations in South Africa’s shark fishery pending

Victoria Schneider 27 Mar 2026
Researcher Lisiane Hahn and colleagues have tagged and released piraíba fitted with tracking devices, generating new data that reveal previously undocumented migrations of this South American species. Image courtesy of Lisiane Hahn.

325 Long-neglected migratory freshwater fish species need protection now: Report

Stefan Lovgren 25 Mar 2026
Fish on a beach in New Ireland province. Image ©Sebastian Velasquez.

PNG’s New Ireland coastal waters causing fish deaths, human sickness

John Cannon 20 Mar 2026
A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ship.

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)

Susan Chomba, Million Belay 20 Mar 2026
An irrigation canal in the Gezira scheme in 2015. Image by Abby Waldorf via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

War exacerbates long-standing irrigation crisis for Sudan farmers

Albashir Dahab 17 Mar 2026
A dairy cow in a farm in the Netherlands.

The Dutch Nitrogen Crisis

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2026

Glyphosate found in South African baby cereal; watchdog group calls for ban

Elodie Toto 16 Mar 2026
The city of Porto Alegre is flooded after heavy rain in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil is both the world’s environmental treasure and its most exposed victim (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Igor Oliveira 16 Mar 2026
A maize field cultivated using agroecology concepts.

In Malawi, farmers rebuild soil and livelihoods through agroecology

Kelvin Tembo 9 Mar 2026
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study

Mike Gaworecki 6 Mar 2026
A wholesale seafood market

Seafood fraud is rampant, imperiling fish populations, report finds

Edward Carver 5 Mar 2026
The yellow Banyumas Kromo durian has a rich, creamy taste

Indonesia farmers count the costs as rains wash out Java durian harvest

L. Darmawan 4 Mar 2026
Pranisha Pun harvests a cordyceps mushroom in western Nepal. Image by Sushil Mainali / ANSAB.

Sustainable trade in wild plants benefits people and planet (commentary)

Richard Scobey 2 Mar 2026
Abu Dhabi port. Courtesy of the European Space Agency (ESA)

The power of cities over the seas

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Mar 2026

Senegal GTA gas project draws international scrutiny

Elodie Toto 27 Feb 2026
Fresh shark meat is sold as cação at street markets in Rio de Janeiro. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Mongabay shark meat exposé wins national journalism education award in Brazil

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2026

Indigenous communities oppose Papua forest rezoning for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Feb 2026

New study assesses geoengineering marine ecosystem risks, knowledge gaps

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 Feb 2026
Paicines Ranch

From chemistry to regeneration: Agriculture’s next transformation has begun (commentary)

Sallie Calhoun 17 Feb 2026
A mud crab (Scylla serrata) Image by titi-uu via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

In Kenya’s Jomvu Creek, women help restore a vanishing coast through crab farming

Asha Bekidusa 11 Feb 2026
Fresh shark meat is sold as “cação” at streeet markets in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro bans shark meat in most state schools

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2026
Firefighters battle a wildfire spreading through a forested area near Concepcion, Chile, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Javier Torres, File)

Tipping points and ecosystem collapse are the real geopolitical risk (commentary)

Robert Muggah 9 Feb 2026

Encouragement boosts people’s likelihood to take climate action

Bobby Bascomb 6 Feb 2026
Canada Jay in Sax-Zim Bog. Canada Jays are a quintessential northwoods bird that utilize Black Spruce and Tamarack Bogs for foraging and nesting. Image by Friends of Sax-Zim Bog (FOSZB).

Communities join global push to protect European, Arctic & US peatlands

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 Feb 2026
Ramon ‘Chin-Chin’ Uy Jr. is Slow Food representative for the Asia and Pacific region. Image courtesy of Slow Food.

Why is a Philippine island now the Asia Pacific center for agroecology? Interview with Ramon ‘Chin-Chin’ Uy Jr.

Keith Anthony Fabro 3 Feb 2026
Fire in Humaitá, Amazonas state, Brazil in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

When nature becomes a security risk

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Feb 2026
A woman uses a new cookstove in the village of Bang in the North region of Cameroon.

Cameroon cookstove project looks to slow forest loss

Leocadia Bongben 30 Jan 2026

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