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In the Colombian Amazon, Indigenous communities protect the sacred black caiman

Astrid Arellano 24 May 2023
A bowhead mother and calf in the Arctic Ocean.

Melting Arctic sea ice is changing bowhead whale migrations, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 May 2023

Book: A perfect storm in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 May 2023
Metal debris in water near SpaceX launch site. Image courtesy of the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries program of Defenders of Wildlife.

Don’t destroy Earth on the way to Mars (commentary)

Sharon Wilcox 23 May 2023

Indonesian project shows how climate funding can — and should — go directly to IPLCs

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2023
DRC copper Mine April 2017https://www.flickr.com/photos/fairphone/35456682034/in/photostream/

NGOs urge continued sanctions against DRC mining giant Dan Gertler

Elodie Toto 23 May 2023

Indigenous communities in Argentina’s Chaco fear another heavy fire season in 2023

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 May 2023
The purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), an ancient species that lived during the dinosaurs, calls small crevices around rocky streams home. Landslides can alter their habitats drastically. Image by David V Raju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

As tourism booms in India’s Western Ghats, habitat loss pushes endangered frogs to the edge

Spoorthy Raman 22 May 2023
The orange ground-thrush.

Fires threaten Afromontane forests’ ‘whole new world’: Q&A with Martim Melo

Ryan Truscott 22 May 2023

Critics question causes behind major oil spill in Ecuadorian Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 22 May 2023

An Asian grass helps Mexican farmers build resilience to climate change

Sandra Weiss 22 May 2023

Overlooked and underfoot, mosses play a mighty role for climate and soil

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2023
An oil palm plantation adjacent to a forest in East Kalimantan.

Indonesian audit finds taxes unpaid on 22 million acres of oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 May 2023
White-handed gibbon

U.S. traders flouting sanctions on buying Myanmar teak, report says

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2023

Study shows 10 million acres of Colombian rainforest at risk without new policies

Astrid Arellano 22 May 2023
Olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings on their way to the sea.

Record year for olive ridley turtles in Bangladesh as conservation work pays off

Farhana Parvin 22 May 2023
Separating the oil palm fruit.

Cycling oil palm biomass waste back into the soil can boost soil health, study says

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 22 May 2023

Chemical spill in Nicaraguan reserve raises questions about industrial mining regulations

Maxwell Radwin 19 May 2023

World Bank: Brazil faces $317 billion in annual losses to Amazon deforestation

Sarah Brown 19 May 2023
Octopuses are widely recognized as having high intelligence and complex inner lives. Photo by Pia B. published to the Creative Commons via Pexels.

Conservation must acknowledge animal sentience (commentary)

Nicole Roberts 19 May 2023

Study: Indonesia’s extensive network of marine reserves are poorly managed

Basten Gokkon 19 May 2023
Cows.

A Twitter bot tracks meat production in the Brazilian Amazon

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 May 2023

3 million hectares of Colombian Amazon deforested for illegal pasture: Study

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2023
A yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), known locally as tracajá, a species that is of cultural importance for the Juruna.

Second chance for Lula as controversial Amazon dam goes up for renewal

Dimitri Selibas 18 May 2023
rhino calves in Chitwan

Low-key return for rescued rhino calves to Nepal’s Chitwan National Park

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 May 2023
Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) reefs in the U.S.

Studies show oyster reef restoration can work out well — given enough time

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 May 2023
A black-footed cat.

‘Anthill tiger’: Putting one of Africa’s rarest wildcats on the radar

Petro Kotzé 18 May 2023

A Guarani community brings native bees back in the shadow of São Paulo

Lais Modelli 18 May 2023

One left: British Columbia’s last chance on northern spotted owls

Ruth Kamnitzer 18 May 2023
Cleaning a beach in the Dominican Republic.

Sargassum surges in Mexico: From nuisance to new green industry?

Sandra Weiss 17 May 2023
One of the major goals of protected areas is to conserve biodiversity. Photo of knobbed hornbill by Rhett A. Butler.

Does the Global Biodiversity Framework give due consideration to market mechanisms? (commentary)

Andre Mader, Kayleigh Crabb 17 May 2023
Lúcio Tembé, chief of the Turé-Mariquita village in Tomé-Açu, northeastern Pará.

Indigenous chief shot in head in Brazil’s ‘palm oil war’ region; crisis group launched

Karla Mendes 16 May 2023

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