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Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Malaika Pictures.

Behind the scenes of the Amazon’s gold rush: Director Richard Ladkani on the making of ‘Yanuni’

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2026
Students are planting indigenous and other fruit tree species on school grounds. Image courtesy of Namulindwa Brendah.

Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network

Charles Mpaka 25 Mar 2026

As Sri Lankans choke on bad air, authorities cite transboundary pollution

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 25 Mar 2026

Another legal challenge for TotalEnergies in South Africa  

Victoria Schneider 24 Mar 2026

Vietnam and Russia advance nuclear power deal as energy security concerns grow in Southeast Asia

Associated Press 24 Mar 2026
The endangered Sumatran laughingthrush is another masterbird species threatened by trade. Image by Simon Bruslund

Songbird trade threatens lesser-known ‘master birds’ with secondary extinctions: Study

Sean Mowbray 23 Mar 2026
Lake Victoria in Kenya. Image by Jozef020 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World Water Day: Earth’s freshwater reveals new species & faces mounting threats

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2026

Deadly Indonesia landfill collapse a ‘serious warning’ of systemic failure

Naina Rao 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

New mapping data show where oil blocks threaten Venezuela’s protected areas

Maxwell Radwin 19 Mar 2026
Dry canals in the Xingu River basin prevent boat traffic and make it difficult for local families to get around. Image courtesy of MATI/ISA.

Contested Amazon dam called to review water flow as river ecosystem fails

André Schröder 19 Mar 2026
Tourists visit the Kusuma Bangsa Park in Nusantara. Image by Niken Sitoningrum/Mongabay Indonesia.

Indonesia court orders release of withheld impact studies on new capital

Niken D. Sitoningrum 19 Mar 2026
The Ranitomeya aetherea poison dart frog. Image courtesy of Alexander Mônico.

An ‘ethereal’ new-to-science poison dart frog from the Amazon: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 19 Mar 2026
Galaxy frog in the Western Ghats, India, with photo taken by conservationist Rajkumar K P as part of conservation project (c) Rajkumar K P ZSL .jpg

World Frog Day: New species described amid threats to amphibian survival

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2026
Flooding in HaT Yai, November 2010. Image by Government of Thailand via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Hat Yai’s floods are a warning for cities built against nature (analysis)

Pakamas Thinphanga, Richard Friend 19 Mar 2026

In Brazil, regenerative farming advances, but deforestation still pressures ecosystems

Mie Hoejris Dahl 17 Mar 2026
The endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bat (Taphozous hildegardeae) in flight near its roost in the caves of Mount Suswa, Kenya, during a conservation monitoring survey. Image courtesy of Bat Conservation International.

At dusk in Kenya’s caves, scientists study the hidden lives of bats

Sharon Muzaki 17 Mar 2026
A healthy private agar plantation in Sujanagar, Moulvibazar.

Planters stranded amid degraded forests as Bangladesh agarwood scheme falters

Ashraful Haque 17 Mar 2026
Emperor penguins rely heavily on sea ice and are estimated to lose 98% of their colonies by 2100 if sea ice continues to decline.

Accidental discovery reveals new climate threat to emperor penguins

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Mar 2026
Massaha forest. Image by ZB.

How a community defended its ancestral forest from logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 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

Climate-resilient housing models slow to gain ground in disaster-prone Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 16 Mar 2026
Duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia. Photo by Charles J. Sharp of Sharp Photography (sharpphotography.co.uk)

Are government subsidies undermining conservation efforts in Australia?

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Mar 2026

Mass pilot whale stranding in Indonesia raises questions about ocean health

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2026
Examining coffee plants in the fields of a CoopeTarrazú grower.

Costa Rica’s head start may mask tougher EUDR road ahead

Claudia Geib 13 Mar 2026

Disastrous floods in Colombia reignite debate over hydroelectric dam

Euan Wallace 13 Mar 2026
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Forest advocates accuse EU energy firm of Dutch biomass certification fraud

Justin Catanoso 13 Mar 2026
Lions. Image courtesy of Kasaine Sankan-Mara Predator Conservation Program.

Study finds livestock pushing lions away from shared rangeland in Kenya

Charles Mpaka 12 Mar 2026

At least 50 people killed and 125 others reported missing after landslides sweep Ethiopia

Associated Press 12 Mar 2026
Seagrass meadows are also important foraging grounds for many marine species, including green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Image courtesy of Michele Roux/Ocean Image Bank.

Why saving seagrass meadows could help save the world’s coastlines

Sean Mowbray 12 Mar 2026
Sea turtles, another migratory species, need safe ocean passageways to move between feeding grounds and nesting beaches.

Outlook for migratory species worsens amid habitat loss & avian flu, report finds

Gloria Dickie 12 Mar 2026
Corals in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Reefs in Florida and elsewhere in the world face many threats including heat waves (which causes coral bleaching), diseases like stony coral tissue loss disease, invasive species, pollution, physical damage and more.

If Florida reefs aren’t protected, storms will increase flooding & costs: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Mar 2026

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