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‘You Belong with Me:’ Taylor Swift has a new genus of bug named after her

David Brown 18 Sep 2026
Residents of Bielsko-Biała, Poland, walk through sprinklers to stay cool during a heat wave.

Rooftop rainwater sprinkler systems could help cool warming cities, study says

Nick Ruggia 18 Sep 2026
This infant Sumatran orangutan was separated from its mother when it was forcibly taken by hunters in the forest in Indonesia.

Five orangutans found in India face long road back home to Indonesia

Junaidi Hanafiah 18 Sep 2026
Galapagos penguin swimming in sea

Global ocean breaks records with 100 days of heat as El Niño adds new threat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Sep 2026

At 86, Sri Lanka’s ‘father of herpetology’ inspires a new conservation generation

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2026
A Tapanuli orangutan. Image © Bert Harris via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Sep 2026
A newborn Irrawaddy dolphin calf, approximately three days old, was seen on Feb. 17, 2026

Mekong’s Irrawaddy dolphins find cautious hope amid a river in crisis

Eung Sea 17 Sep 2026

Heavy rain and floods in northern Vietnam submerge homes and disrupt economy

Associated Press 17 Sep 2026
Swami Gowda stands with his herd of sheep and cattle

India’s tiger success brings a new challenge: Living alongside the big cats

Arathi Menon 17 Sep 2026
Pirarucu fish on a boat on the Jurua River. Image courtesy of Joao Campos-Silva.

Community-based conservation is a good climate investment in Brazil & beyond (commentary)

Ana Cristina Barros, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Katia Ribeiro Torres 17 Sep 2026

As drought shrinks Sri Lanka’s water holes, poisoning poses threat to wildlife

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Sep 2026
African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis).

World’s smallest crocodile in high demand for bushmeat trade in Nigeria

Amir Sadiq 17 Sep 2026
anteater Argentina

A giant anteater’s return in Argentina offers a case for letting nature restore itself

Sean Mowbray 17 Sep 2026

Rescuers race against time as fires ravage orangutan habitat inside Indonesian oil palm concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2026

Exotic pet trade poses rising zoonotic disease risks in India

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026
Abandoned houses in Tengjhih, a settlement of the Bunun Indigenous people, in southern Taiwan, on Aug. 6, 2026. Image by Aylin Ho for Mongabay.

Displaced by typhoons, Taiwan’s Bunun Indigenous people struggle to preserve heritage

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026
Haze blankets Pontianak, a city in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, on Sept. 3, 2026.

In Southeast Asia, residents grapple with life under Indonesia’s wildfire haze

Choo Ching Yee, Oliver Samson, Irfan Maulana, Krismes Santo Haloho 17 Sep 2026

‘Don’t shoot. Listen’: The AI-aided quest to understand Yellowstone’s wolves

Justin Catanoso 16 Sep 2026

Bolivia’s mining law overhaul raises environmental and community concerns

Maxwell Radwin 16 Sep 2026

EU plans new firefighting fleet after deadly summer heat wave

Associated Press 16 Sep 2026
KWD1980, a wild dog from Zambia’s Kafue National Park

‘A good way to die’: triumph and tragedy among dispersing African wild dogs

Ryan Truscott 16 Sep 2026
Image: Elephant puppet created by Greg Corbino created for Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals by Stephanie Ann Boyd. Photo courtesy of Ocean Music Action.

‘Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals’ celebrates species with song

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2026
Vietnam’s monkeys

Why do these monkeys look so weird

Izzy Sasada 16 Sep 2026
Mending fishing nets in Vietnam

Fishers bear deep costs of plastic pollution in Vietnam, but could help turn the tide

Carolyn Cowan 16 Sep 2026
Grauer's gorilla troop in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Photo credit: Strong Roots Congo.

For the first time, Congolese NGO to manage a DRC protected area

Elodie Toto 16 Sep 2026

Marine heatwave likely caused sharp decline in Hawaiian humpback whales, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 15 Sep 2026
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, stands alongside commanders of the armed forces during the playing of Brazil's national anthem at a Soldier's Day ceremony at Army headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Brazil election could put 95% of the Amazon under right-wing governments

Lucas Berti 15 Sep 2026

‘Big Cats’ highlights the remarkable power of photojournalism

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Sep 2026

Report links fishmeal production to decline in key species for Guinea-Bissau communities

David Brown 15 Sep 2026

Since US intervention, Venezuela’s illegal mining crisis has only worsened, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 15 Sep 2026
A waste picker works amid thick smoke rising from the vast garbage mounds at Dhaka North City Corporation’s Aminbazar landfill in Savar. She was looking for plastic or other valuable recyclable items there.

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy project faces opposition from pollution-weary residents

Eyamin Sajid 15 Sep 2026

Indigenous leader Raoni receives palliative care in Brazil after cancer diagnosis

Associated Press 15 Sep 2026

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