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São Tomé declares first two of eight planned marine protected areas

Victoria Schneider 29 Jun 2026

The Ideas Shaping Environmental Action

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 29 Jun 2026
A fisher offloads gear in front of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal operated by state-owned energy company PTT Public Company Limited at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Port in Rayong province, Thailand, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Once completed, the Burapa power plant will receive natural gas via pipeline from a terminal at the port. Image by Andy Ball for Mongabay.

Thai farmers fear water woes from planned LNG plant

Gerald Flynn 29 Jun 2026
Collage, Fritz Pinnow, contributor, and a soldier

Honduras taps armed forces to eliminate deforestation by 2029. Is it working?

Fritz Pinnow 27 Jun 2026
A chicken farm in France. Image courtesy of the Brittany Chamber of Agriculture.

Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry

Shanna Hanbury 26 Jun 2026

French court orders TotalEnergies to disclose climate impacts in vigilance plan

Victoria Schneider 26 Jun 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026
A fisher at Saude Beach in Kochi. Image by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

India’s fishers confront homegrown ‘ghost gear’ problem

Robert Bociaga 26 Jun 2026
Two images captured by LiDAR at different times and overlaid: one of young tree seedlings (pink), the other of the trees (blue) after two years of growth.

Laser scanning forests may boost carbon estimates, but credibility questions linger

Shradha Triveni 26 Jun 2026
Dang Dinh Bach speaking.

Vietnamese environmental lawyer Dang Dinh Bach released after 5 years in prison

Naina Rao 26 Jun 2026
African baobab (Adansonia digitata), Chikwawa district, Malawi. Image by Rob Palmer via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Three years after Cyclone Freddy, farms remain under water in Malawi’s Elephant Marsh

Charles Mpaka 26 Jun 2026
A peacock displaying its tail in India. Image by allanlau2000 via Pixabay.

Bangladesh tests a return to the wild for extinct peafowl populations

Abu Siddique 26 Jun 2026

Asia’s shark and ray hotspots remain poorly protected, study finds

Malaka Rodrigo 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

Trump admin persists in quixotic quest against wind power despite legal defeat

Bobby Bascomb 25 Jun 2026

Not all coral reefs are doomed as a result of climate change, study suggests

Elodie Toto 25 Jun 2026

How leopards and wolves share the same Himalayan valley: Study

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2026

As temperatures soar, Paris court set to rule on landmark climate change case

Associated Press 25 Jun 2026
Conservation groups have launched a plan to save the critically endangered Javan green magpie. As few as 50 may remain in the wild. Image courtesy of Andrew Owen/Chester Zoo.

On the brink of extinction, the Javan green magpie gets a conservation lifeline

Sean Mowbray 25 Jun 2026

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

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2026
Bison affect plant growth, nutrient cycling, and fire dynamics through their grazing. Image courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Society.

Wildlife helps regulate the climate & this belongs in policy discussions (commentary)

Jérôme Pinti 24 Jun 2026
Firefighters from the Chico Mendes Institute work to contain a forest fire and prevent it from reaching Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in Brazil’s northern Goiás state in 2025. Image by AP Photo / Eraldo Peres.

Fire surge in 2025 threatened isolated peoples in Brazil

Aimee Gabay 24 Jun 2026
Tropical forest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Deforestation is just a symptom. The disease is de-governance (commentary)

Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto 23 Jun 2026
Mangroves and coral reef in Papua New Guinea. Image by Matt Curnock / Ocean Image Bank.

Can globally essential mangroves bounce back from deforestation? New study gives hope

Elizabeth Schell 23 Jun 2026
A yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Platysteira concreta), a bird of the rainforest understorey, sits on its nest in the Tai National Park. Image courtesy of Michele Menegon.

‘Rare animals, photography and Instagram’ could help an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 23 Jun 2026
Ruos Lim, 71, a Kuy Indigenous community leader, harvests corn he planted at the L4 station in Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary

Indigenous people in Cambodia claim they’re blocked from sacred sites

Andy Ball, Phoung Vantha, Roun Ry 23 Jun 2026
Farmers of Bangladesh harvest ripe rice crop

Bangladesh’s lightning death toll persists as years of gov’t safeguards fail

Sadiqur Rahman 23 Jun 2026

Old fire hoses become lifelines for Malaysia’s endangered langurs

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2026

Pulp and paper giant APRIL’s supplier choices put FSC remedy process to the test

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2026

EU votes to end illegal logging agreement with Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jun 2026
Golden-backed squirrel monkey (Saimiri ustus) pictured in Amazonas state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Leonardo Mercon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

World Rainforest Day: Deforestation must be nearly halved to meet 2030 target

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2026
A howler monkey in the Amazon. As the world warms, plants and animals must quickly migrate to cooler places to stay resilient and survive.

Study offers first map of Amazon’s climate-resilient upslope corridors

Justin Catanoso 22 Jun 2026

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