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Fresh forest clearance inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary signals the beginning of an infrastructure project that will bisect the forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New transmission lines cut a Cambodian rainforest sanctuary in half

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 27 Nov 2024

Reserve in Brazilian Amazon struggles as ‘aggressive’ deforestation spreads

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Nov 2024
Corpus Christi at night, with fishing and pleasure boats set against the skyline. Image by Terry Ross via Wikimedia Commons.

Desalination plants proposed for Texas Gulf Coast spur broad opposition

Erik Hoffner 27 Nov 2024
Rainforest in Boven Digoel. Image by Ulet Ifansasti for Greenpeace.

How nature protection and inspiring art are key to planetary health & preventing pandemics

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Nov 2024
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazil beef industry still struggling with deforestation from indirect suppliers, survey finds

Maxwell Radwin 26 Nov 2024
River in the Kosnipata valley, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Why is a landscape approach needed for funding the global environmental agenda? (commentary)

Aida Greenbury, Robert Nasi 26 Nov 2024
In a village near Kebribeyah district of Somali regional state, a young herder guides the cattle to the water source, keeping the age-old tradition alive. Image by Solomon Yimer.

As climate change upends Ethiopia’s pastoral wisdom, adaptations can help

Sonam Lama Hyolmo, Solomon Yimer 26 Nov 2024

Vulture poisonings in the Serengeti alarm conservationists

Sean Mowbray 26 Nov 2024
Banner image of civil society groups protesting at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Image courtesy of 350.org.

With COP29 letdown, climate activists pin their hopes on Brazil

Kristine Sabillo 26 Nov 2024
Citizen scientist photographing a Northern Queen of Sheba Orchid in Lesueur National Park, Western Australia. Photo credit: Thomas Mesaglio

Citizen scientists can boost IUCN species assessments, but need better guidance from ecologists

Mahima Samraik 26 Nov 2024

Illegal gold mining drives deforestation in DRC reserve home to ‘African unicorn’

Ruth Kamnitzer 26 Nov 2024

Logging persists in Cameroon’s wildlife-rich Ebo Forest despite warnings

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 25 Nov 2024

Conservationists see progress for swordfish, problems for sharks at Atlantic fisheries summit

Edward Carver 25 Nov 2024

Six activists arrested in Cambodia while investigating illegal logging

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 25 Nov 2024
Food can pick up chemicals from to-go containers and everything else they contact on their way to your table. Credit: Taklamacuwv Lamia on Wikimedia Commons

Thousands of chemicals from food packaging found in humans, a major study reveals

Rita Aksenfeld 25 Nov 2024
People clean up plastic trash at a beach in Bali, Indonesia.

Plastic pollution pushing Earth past all nine planetary boundaries: Report

Alden Wicker 25 Nov 2024
Syafi'i catching shellfish in the waters of the Malacca Strait.

As Sumatra loses mangroves to oil palms, local fishers also suffer

Ayat S. Karokaro 25 Nov 2024
Banner image of AIIB headquarters by N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

$125b in ‘climate finance’ funds polluting, rights-violating projects: Report

Kristine Sabillo 25 Nov 2024

Indigenous leaders killed as narco airstrips cut into their Amazon territories

Mongabay Latam 25 Nov 2024
Juvenile one-horned rhinos at a rescue center in Chitwan. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi

Nepal’s top court to rule next month on law allowing development in protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Nov 2024
An Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) comes up for air. Image courtesy of André Dib.

Researcher discovers new role played by manatees, ‘the gardeners of the Amazon’

Tiago da Mota e Silva 25 Nov 2024
Elephants move across the African savannah. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

‘Old’ animals offer wisdom and stability, need protection: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Nov 2024

Seeking solutions in Indigenous knowledge: Interview with the Maldives’ Mohamed Nasheed

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 23 Nov 2024
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Prosecutors urge suspension of Amazon carbon projects, citing Mongabay investigation

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Nov 2024

Deforestation around Mennonite colonies continues in Peruvian Amazon: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2024
A woman pulls a large bag filled with plastic in a landfill in Bangladesh.

Biden administration doesn’t support a cap on plastic production

Bobby Bascomb 22 Nov 2024
Capuccin monkeys in a low-land tropical rainforest in Costa Rica.

Huge deforested areas in the tropics could regenerate naturally, study finds

John Cannon 22 Nov 2024

One of the tiniest frogs ever is discovered in Brazil, defying size limits

Shanna Hanbury 22 Nov 2024

The effects of mass migration in Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Nov 2024

Elephant seal colonies in Argentina face long recovery after ‘catastrophic’ avian flu

Maxwell Radwin 22 Nov 2024
Cityscape of Seattle, U.S., with trees in the foreground.

Cities are climate solution leaders: Interview with Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson

Justin Catanoso 22 Nov 2024
Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) at an aquarium in Norway in 2015. Herring

Leaders fail to address overfishing near Europe at ‘fraught’ international meeting

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2024

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