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Train hauling coal between Moatize and Nacala in 2018. Image by Matthias Hille via Wikicommons (CC BY 4.0)

Improved transport opens Mozambique’s forests to new pressures

Mkhululi Chimoio 11 Jun 2026

The search for climate-resilient coffee: Diversifying beyond Arabica and Robusta

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2026

A ‘climate-ready’ corridor created for Kyrgyzstan’s snow leopards

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2026

Kenya is Africa’s first country to receive crucial climate disaster funding

Lynet Otieno 11 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka’s recent drowning deaths linked to aftermath of extreme weather events

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 10 Jun 2026
These sheep, photographed on a highway in Canada, may have been drawn to the road by deicing salt. Image by Ben Goldfarb.

The long and winding road to safe highways: Inside the global movement to reconnect habitat

Ben Goldfarb 10 Jun 2026

Indonesia’s grassroots farmers face increased unpredictability, experts say

Naina Rao 10 Jun 2026
Climate Wayfinding with a design background. Image by Amerpsand. Courtesy of Katharine Wilkinson.

‘Climate Wayfinding’ can help you unpack the overwhelm of our ecological problems

Mike DiGirolamo 9 Jun 2026
Cattle in Maticurú

Colombia passes landmark cattle traceability law to combat illegal deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 9 Jun 2026
A woman holds up land tenure certificates in Chipata, Zambia (2017). Image by USAID via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Movement gives African rural women farmers a voice, but still battles landownership

Charles Mpaka 9 Jun 2026
Limited recycling capacity and weak monitoring continue to fuel illegal imports and informal e-waste recycling in Bangladesh.

Illegal e-waste trade turns Bangladesh into net importer

Sajibur Rahman 9 Jun 2026

Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka bans single-use plastic bottles at government events, charges for plastic bags

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Jun 2026
A dead dusky morwong (Dactylophora nigricans) lies on a bed of seaweed at the water’s edge.

A year on, Australia’s biggest harmful algal bloom continues to wreak havoc

Nick Rodway 8 Jun 2026
Giant soft coral in South Korea

‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jun 2026
Some of the more than 4,000 fishers who make their living in the waterways of Elephant Marsh. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Malawi’s Elephant Marsh: The challenge of protecting a wetland that sustains thousands

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026
Buddhist monks who participated in the Peace Walk arrive to attend a ceremony marking World Environment Day in Chiang Rai, Thailand, on 5 June 2026. Photo by Ta Mwe.

Northern Thai residents march for action on polluted rivers. ‘This is an emergency’

Gerald Flynn 8 Jun 2026
Turquoise dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi). Image © Simon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko

Manuel Fonseca 6 Jun 2026
The Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor from above on the Peruvian side, near the Peru-Brazil border.

In Peru and Brazil, extractivism threatens Indigenous people in isolation: Report

Aimee Gabay 5 Jun 2026
A desert pampas cat (Leopardus garleppi). A genetic study caused researchers to raise an alarm over a small, unique, dry mangrove-adapted population being genetically unhealthy, putting it at risk for local extinction. Image courtesy of the Peruvian Desert Cat Project.

Genetic study reveals extinction risk for unique mangrove-adapted pampas cat

Sean Mowbray 5 Jun 2026

US set to hold latest oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Associated Press 5 Jun 2026
Phuon Keorasmey, 23, a prominent figure in Mother Nature Cambodia, is arrested on July 2, 2024. Image courtesy of Licadho.

Rights groups renew call to free jailed Cambodian environmental activists

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2026

Bangladesh struggles to enforce ‘polluter pays’ principle amid legal delays

Sadiqur Rahman 4 Jun 2026
Diane Sitima at her farm. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

In Malawi, one woman’s farm shows what’s possible with land and support

Charles Mpaka 4 Jun 2026

Scientists warn of climate blind spot as U.S. dismantles ocean sensors

Naina Rao 4 Jun 2026
Oxysternon festivum, the most common dung beetle found in the study. Image by Tom Murray via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Gold mining damages dung beetle communities in the Amazon, study finds

David Brown 4 Jun 2026
A Mongabay investigation team visited the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon where Mennonites are illegally converting pristine forests in the Peruvian Amazon into agricultural land. Image by Romi Castagnino for Mongabay.

It’s time to engage Mennonite communities in reducing deforestation across Latin America (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jun 2026
Harsh sun floods the homes of local families. Their belongings are either stored away or ruined by the storm. Family artifacts and heirlooms now litter living spaces as jagged wood hangs from rafters. Image by World Central Kitchen via Flickr (CC BY 4.0).

From the wreckage of Super Typhoon Sinlaku, Pacific Islanders slowly recover

Anita Hofschneider 3 Jun 2026

Can deforestation predict Ebola outbreaks? Q&A with CDC’s Carson Telford

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2026

Solar power brings energy to rural Indonesia, but inequality remains

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2026
Gangala Yafali Mangusa Jr. poses for a photo after a community meeting on social cohesion within the Local Community Forest Concession (CFCL). Image by Jéremie Kyaswekera Kakule.

Descendants of people pushed out for DRC national park lead forest conservation efforts

Jérémie Kyaswekera 2 Jun 2026
Creek in the Colombian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

From pledges to road maps, nations organize around fossil fuel phaseout

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Jun 2026

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