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Wildfires are devastating, but fire can also be a rejuvenating force for many organisms and landscapes.

As wildfires rage, Canadian researchers study the life that comes after

Anna Dulisse 28 Oct 2026
Md. Mizan Mia, a resident of Katanishar village of Sarail subdistrict, calms his 9-month-old female Sarail hound at his residence. Image by Kamran Reza Chowdhury.

A rare hound with a storied past faces an uncertain future in Bangladesh

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 28 Oct 2026
Lucy Mulenkei was among those who had worked to get the new body over the line. A Masai leader from Kenya, Mulenkei is co-chair of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity. Image by Mark Hillsdon/Mongabay.

‘A proper seat at the table’: Lucy Mulenkei on Indigenous decision-making at the COP17 biodiversity summit

Mark Hillsdon 28 Oct 2026
Eurasian Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) at Kalaibiami I, Rivers state, Nigeria. Image © Adedotun Ajibade via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

As the sea swallows a Nigerian community, migratory bird habitat disappears

Amir Sadiq 28 Oct 2026
Sunda pangolin

Pangolin scale lawsuit in Indonesia could shake up how wildlife traffickers pay

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026
Copper mine in Chile. Image by Tom Hegen

Photographer Tom Hegen’s aerial eye reveals the true scale of the critical mineral age

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026
Kashmiri shepherd girls walk back home after collecting water from nearby spring in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, 2021.

Kashmir’s springs are drying up. Scientists say saving them starts uphill

Hashim Quraishi 27 Oct 2026
A vendor in Pakistan pushes his cart through smog in Lahore

In Pakistan’s Punjab, toxic air threatens wildlife amid a monitoring blind spot

Muhammad Talal 27 Oct 2026
Over the past century, humanity has invented thousands of novel chemicals.

Global framework urgently needed to assess emerging health risks of novel chemicals, experts say

Claire Asher 27 Oct 2026
A file photo shows a green sea turtle on a coral reef in Tañon Strait, a protected seascape between the Philippine islands of Negros and Cebu. Image courtesy of Tañon Strait Philippines.

The Philippine lawyer who beat an oil giant: Rose Liza Eisma-Osorio on defending Tañon Strait

Maverick Avila 27 Oct 2026

Five new mussel species reveal how much biodiversity US rivers still conceal

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2026
A thick haze obscures the skyline behind the Central Business District area in Singapore, Oct. 9, 2026.

‘Influence without enforcement’: Indonesia’s fires test Singapore’s anti-haze law

Gabrielle See 27 Oct 2026
Robson Mura, of the Mura Indigenous community, watches the sunrise at the Moyray village in Autazes, Amazonas state, February 2025.

Canadian-backed potash mine in Brazil has dried up sacred Amazon springs, say residents

Aimee Gabay 26 Oct 2026
Man in Colombia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A rare victory for multilateralism in the fight against environmental crime (commentary)

Laura Waisbich, Melina Risso, Robert Muggah 26 Oct 2026
Manaus woke up shrouded in smoke on Oct 17. In the background, the Negro River is barely visible on the horizon. Image courtesy of Juliana Pesqueira/Amazônia Real.

Amazon fires trap Manaus in smoke as authorities target arsonists

Tiago da Mota e Silva 26 Oct 2026
An elephant in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

At Yerevan’s COP17 biodiversity summit, a steep climb ahead for ‘30 by 30’ target

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Oct 2026
Internally displaced persons installing solar panels at a health center in northwestern Cameroon as part of the “Solar Bright Future” program. Image courtesy of Lokamitraa Tokala, Outreach and Partnerships Officer with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Action Campaign, an initiative of the UNDP.

Solar initiative brings power to clinics and jobs to displaced youths in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 26 Oct 2026
Grey-necked rockfowl (Picathartes oreas) in Cameroon. Image © Niall Perrins via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/331794149 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Rare bird finding strengthens case to protect Congo rainforest across borders

Ryan Truscott 26 Oct 2026
A male great hornbill approaches the nest in which its mate stays with the eggs or chicks.

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Sifayet Ullah 26 Oct 2026
Lin Kuang-li stands among his Ch’ing-hsin oolong tea plants in Longyanlin village

Taiwan’s tea growers let nature take back control as climate pressures mount

Aylin Ho 26 Oct 2026
Lobe coral (Porites lobata).

Corals keep a record of pollution, pointing to a new monitoring method: Study

Edward Carver 26 Oct 2026
“Cooking gas cylinder…”: An artist draws cooking gas cylinders on a roadside fence near a gas retail outlet in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, where the use of LPG for cooking has risen in the last decade. Image by Ini Ekott for Mongabay.

5 million Nigerians gain clean cooking access annually, but it’s not enough, experts say

Ini Ekott 26 Oct 2026

Sri Lanka mourns iconic tusker amid renewed calls to address human-elephant conflict

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Oct 2026
Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)

World Kangaroo Day: How climate change impacts Australia’s macropods

Cooper Williams 24 Oct 2026
Arzu Begum stands by the door of her house in the poor Mirpur area of Dhaka in July, 2022.

Bangladesh’s climate migrants are arriving in cities unprepared to protect them

Usraat Fahmidah 23 Oct 2026
Federal environmental civil servants mobilize to reelect Lula, warning the public about environmental risks if the Bolsonaro clan returns to power. Image courtesy of Ascema Nacional.

Environmental officials fear new wave of harassment if Flavio Bolsonaro wins in Brazil

Karla Mendes 23 Oct 2026

Critics call for halt to road construction in Mexico’s Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 23 Oct 2026
The Arazaire community is split in two, bisected by the Inambari River. On the river's left bank, where residents once had agricultural plots, forest, and ceremonial lagoons, the landscape is now dominated by mercury-laden ponds and deforestation.

Amazon communities lose water as mining and deforestation reshape rivers

Vanessa Romo 23 Oct 2026
Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1988-2026, according to INPE.

What if Flávio Bolsonaro wins? High stakes for the environment in Brazil’s 2026 elections (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 23 Oct 2026

Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 23 Oct 2026
A man rides a bicycle through thick haze caused by wildfires in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Oct. 23, 2026.

Indonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censored

Winda Charmila 23 Oct 2026
Photos from the day La Rose was filed in 2019. Image courtesy of Our Children’s Trust.

Ahead of landmark climate trial in Canada, Indigenous youth eye impacts in the North

Elizabeth Rusch 23 Oct 2026

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