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Coral reef in the Sea of Cortez. Photo courtesy of Legacy Works.

Forget decrees; try patience. Martin Goebel plays the long game in conserving Baja California Sur

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jul 2025
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous knowledge & agroecology must be at the center of food system transformation (commentary)

Juan Lucas Restrepo 29 Jul 2025
Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025

Scientists & communities rush to save rare, diverse Brazilian grassland ecosystem

Letícia Klein 29 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka Supreme Court orders $1 bn payment in X Press Pearl marine disaster

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Jul 2025
Person standing in front of a fallen tree.

Global warming is altering storms lightning, impacting tropical forests

Sean Mowbray 28 Jul 2025
A critically endangered Philippine pangolin and its pup. The demand for their scales has resulted in Pangolins being the most trafficked mammals.

To save pangolins, we need to change the narrative (commentary)

Araluen Schunmann 28 Jul 2025

Civil society challenges Indonesian deregulation law over rights and environment

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jul 2025
A forest gardener waters vegetables in his forest garden in Kaffrine, Senegal.

A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel

Victoria Schneider 28 Jul 2025

Batang coal plant’s seawater permit imperils marine life, fishing communities

Basten Gokkon 26 Jul 2025
Indigenous Lumad women hold slogans during a rally outside a military headquarters in the Philippines in 2018

Across Southeast Asia, Indigenous women challenge extraction and erasure

Hướng Thiện 25 Jul 2025
Black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina). Image by Saverio Savio via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

The sacred humans-bird connection in Ethiopia’s wetlands: Interview with Abebayehu Aticho

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 25 Jul 2025

2,000 species at high risk of extinction from natural disasters, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jul 2025
A part of Putumayo rainforest showing areas of deforestation.

Illegal roads expand in Colombia’s deforestation hotspots

Mie Hoejris Dahl 25 Jul 2025
Lena Estrada, Colombia's minister of environment. Image by Eduardo Santamaría.

Oil ‘does not guarantee stability’: Colombia’s environment minister on energy transition

Latoya Abulu 24 Jul 2025
Sifting coffee beans in Porciuncula, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

‘Insignificant risk’ EUDR proposal threatens fight against deforestation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2025
A tiger-legged monkey frog in the Amazon tropical forest.

Where there’s political will, there’s a way to stop tropical deforestation, study finds

John Cannon 24 Jul 2025

Mounting corporate pressure on Honduras threatens community rights

Aimee Gabay 24 Jul 2025
A beluga whale in the Arctic Ocean near Norway.

Saving polar bears and beluga whales: Interview with Alysa McCall

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jul 2025
A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

Indonesian palm oil company sues experts who helped secure $18m pollution ruling

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2025
An adult Sumatran orangutan

Orangutans make up for lost sleep with daytime naps, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 24 Jul 2025
The Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Ecuador’s new protected areas law sparks debate over security, development

Maxwell Radwin 23 Jul 2025
Akana at Nyungwe National Park in southern Rwanda. While the park is best known for its chimpanzees, as well as owl-faced and colobus monkeys, the canopy walkway offers a unique vantage point over the valley and surrounding forests. Photo by Kuimo Donald.

From sports desk to nature’s frontlines: David Akana’s unlikely path to lead Mongabay Africa

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2025
The Barbados threadsnake, a species lost to science for 20 years, was found during an ecological survey on Barbados by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification and Re:wild in March 2025. Image courtesy of Connor Blades

World’s smallest snake spotted by scientists in Barbados after 20-year absence

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2025

Nickel boom on an Indonesian island brings toxic seas, lost incomes, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jul 2025

Sacred sites & cultural practices key to Indonesia fish conservation: Study

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2025
A woman sits under a tree surrounded by dry waste in East Java.

Burning, burying and banning: Indonesia’s cities struggle to manage their garbage

Jeff Hutton 23 Jul 2025
With support from the DGM, Indigenous Cibarani people from Indonesia secured an official customary forest designation, enabling them to improve their livelihoods. Photo by CIF.

How a quiet climate finance model is funneling money directly to communities

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2025
Mangrove forest in the Philippines. Image courtesy of the National Blue Carbon Action Partnership (NBCAP).

Blue carbon ecosystems are key for protecting the Philippines from climate shocks (commentary)

Jurgenne H. Primavera, Rona Joy Loma, Emily Richardson 22 Jul 2025
NASA's Artemis program plans to return humans to the moon, with the U.S. government agency working with SpaceX to develop the company's Starship human landing system.

Commercial space race comes with multiple planetary health risks

Sean Mowbray 22 Jul 2025

Hope and frustration as Indonesia pilots FSC’s logging remedy framework

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jul 2025
Thai authorities seized more than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of ivory hidden in luggage shipped out from Congo to Laos via Bangkok in 2015.

Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2025

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