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How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Sep 2026
Gold nugget

The push for a sustainable artisanal mining in the Peruvian Amazon

Felipe Esparza 12 Sep 2026

Ituna/Itatá invasion escalates as Indigenous Land faces fires and illegal clearing

Aimee Gabay 12 Sep 2026

Angolan communities return to seasonal migration amid severe drought

Elodie Toto 11 Sep 2026

Federal court rejects Trump order keeping Michigan coal plant open

Associated Press 11 Sep 2026
Butterflies on Mount Mabu. Image courtesy of Julian Bayliss.

Mozambique protects Mount Mabu ‘butterfly forest’

Shanna Hanbury 11 Sep 2026
Lesser and greater flamingos amass at Lake Natron

Migratory bird species increasingly at risk, report finds, but there is still hope

Sean Mowbray 11 Sep 2026
A striped dolphin caught in a driftnet off the Azores, North Atlantic.

World Dolphin Day: Reporting unusual behavior, threats and increased protections

Mongabay.com 11 Sep 2026

Lack of data hinders fight against environmental crimes in Angola, says environmentalist

David Tjyakala 11 Sep 2026
A pygmy marmoset.

Indigenous knowledge x tech in the search for a tiny Amazon monkey

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Sep 2026
Nigerian conservationist Rachel Ikemeh is a winner of the 2026 Rolex Awards. Image courtesy of Rolex Awards.

Nigeria’s Rachel Ikemeh wins Rolex Award for efforts to save rare red monkey

David Brown 11 Sep 2026
Gold mining

Can mining gold be sustainable?

Felipe Esparza 11 Sep 2026

Javan rhinos survive eruption in Indonesia, but single habitat leaves species vulnerable

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2026

Court rules residents of a US city don’t have a constitutional right to lead-free water

Bobby Bascomb 10 Sep 2026

Japan deploys equipment to Indonesia’s Borneo to help fight wildfires causing toxic haze

Associated Press 10 Sep 2026
The Amazon Fund finances a project by the Mamirauá Institute to support the sustainable management of pirarucu, one of the world’s biggest freshwater fish, in communities in the states of Pará and Amazonas. Image courtesy of Ricardo Oliveira/Mamirauá Institute.

Amazon Fund grantees fear a new funding freeze after Brazil’s election

Fernanda Wenzel 10 Sep 2026
A turbine being installed at Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm in the U.K.

Offshore wind may be good for the climate but can it be good for the ocean, too?

Sean Mowbray 10 Sep 2026
Xingu River stingray (Potamotrygon leopoldi).

‘Forgotten fauna’: Little known river sharks and rays face increased extinction risk

Malaka Rodrigo 10 Sep 2026
Tombong Barrow in his rice field rice at Kiang Jifarong, the Gambia. Image by Yero Bah for Mongabay.

As saltwater advances, Gambian farmers rethink how to protect rice fields

Yero S. Bah 10 Sep 2026
Raina accompanies her only son, Muhammad Raihan (5), who is undergoing treatment at the Banjarmasin Islamic Hospital after experiencing respiratory complaints amid the haze from forest and land fires

Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 10 Sep 2026
Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil. Illustration by Giovana Abreu/Intercept Brasil.

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil

Naira Hofmeister 10 Sep 2026
Spinach pipefish is an endemic species found in Papua New Guinea's Sepik River. It was not seen by scientists for more than four decades. Image Courtesy of New Guinea Binatang Research Centre.

Indigenous fisherwoman finds ‘lost’ spinach pipefish, not seen by science in 40 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Sep 2026
Sugi trees at Nikkō Tōshō-gū.

Japan wants to plant no-pollen trees to solve its hay fever crisis

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2026
Two Przewalski’s horse foals born in Kazakhstan in August 2026. Image courtesy of Albert Salemgareyev.

Two wild Przewalski’s horse foals born in Kazakhstan after 200 years

Shanna Hanbury 9 Sep 2026
Pallas’s cat kittens in Mongolia. These small cats are vulnerable to declines in other burrowing species, as they can’t dig out holes for themselves that they use for shelter and to raise their young. Image by Sebastian Kennerknecht/Cat Expeditions

Nepal’s high-altitude wildernesses & wildlife are increasingly under threat (commentary)

Geraldine Werhahn, Sabita Gurung 9 Sep 2026
Mapuche Indigenous women prepare to commemorate the National Day of Indigenous People as part of celebrations of "We Tripantu," the Mapuche new year coinciding with the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, at the Original People's Ceremonial Park in Santiago, Chile, Monday, June 2023. Image by: AP Photo/Esteban Felix.

Indigenous land back in Chile brings mixed bag of environmental outcomes: Study

Aimee Gabay 9 Sep 2026

How to enhance ocean health and resilience with marine rewilding

Bobby Bascomb 9 Sep 2026

In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed

Associated Press 9 Sep 2026
A woman cleans a blanket in algae-filled water on the banks of Wular Lake in Kashmir.

Kashmir’s water bodies have declined for decades. Is conservation keeping pace?

Hashim Quraishi 9 Sep 2026
A man travels along a street in his wheelchair in Freetown, Sierra Leone

When climate-related hazards rise, so do barriers for people with disabilities

Patricia Sia Ngevao 9 Sep 2026
Deep-sea octopus

Caribbean scientists document uncharted deep-sea waters in Trinidad and Tobago

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Sep 2026
Fishing vessels in Dunedin, New Zealand.

New Zealand put fishing boats under camera surveillance. Will it stay the course?

Edward Carver 9 Sep 2026

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