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Banner image of marine pollution by Christian Yakubu via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

UN report recommends ‘deep change’ theory to address global crises

Kristine Sabillo 25 Apr 2025
Banner image of an electric vehicle charging by andreas160578 via Pixabay.

EV supply chain & transport need redesign, Mongabay podcast shows

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2025
Drought in Bangladesh.

Global warming hits hardest for those who can’t escape it

John Cannon 24 Apr 2025
Pope Francis, 1936-2025.

Pope Francis’ uncompromising defense of nature may be his greatest legacy

Justin Catanoso 24 Apr 2025
Starbucks Logo on the Wall

Report accuses Starbucks of tax avoidance through ‘ethical’ Swiss subsidiary

Alex Shaw 24 Apr 2025
Elephants move across the African savannah. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

The wisdom of the elders: Why the oldest animals matter

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Apr 2025
Coral bleaching in Ningaloo, Australia, in February 2025. Image courtesy of Daniel Nicholson/Ocean Image Bank.

Ongoing global coral bleaching event affects 84% of world’s reefs

Shanna Hanbury 23 Apr 2025
Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, captured Nov. 27, 2024. Image courtesy of Planet Labs PBC.

Earth Day: The wonder of iconic satellite images

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Apr 2025
The iconic Earthrise photograph, snapped by an Apollo 8 astronaut on the first manned mission to the moon on Christmas Eve, 1968. Image courtesy of NASA.

Earth Day check-in: Planetary boundaries in peril

Bobby Bascomb 22 Apr 2025
Canopy platform in Amacayacu National Park, Colombia. Photo: Rhett A. Butler.

Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem.

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2025
A young orangutan grasps and hangs on to a woody liana.

Nature on the move: How conservation must adapt to survive

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Apr 2025

Elevator to extinction (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 16 Apr 2025
Sable shearwaters are long-lived marine birds that nest in large colonies on islands and shores throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans

Plastic-eating seabird chicks show signs of organ failure and cognitive decline

Spoorthy Raman 16 Apr 2025
Crested black macaque. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Why conservation research findings are rarely surprising

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Apr 2025
Banner image of Mongabay Explores and Wild Frequencies logos.

2 Mongabay podcasts shortlisted for 2025 Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 16 Apr 2025
An agamid lizard in a Chinese rainforest.

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

Sean Mowbray 15 Apr 2025
Blue dart frog. Image by Rhett Butler.

The currency of impact: Why nonprofit models might be the future of serious journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2025
Red deer in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria.

How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts share

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2025
Corporations have devastated the livelihoods of fishing communities like Odimodi, by spilling crude oil, discharging toxic effluents, and gas flaring. Image via the Coalition for Human Rights in Development.

How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia (analysis)

Daniela Sepulveda, Angélica Arellano 9 Apr 2025
Reserva Narupa, Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

Why the nonprofit newsroom model is vital to Mongabay’s impact

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Apr 2025
Banner image of Pasir Timbul in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

122 companies responsible for a third of present day sea-level rise: Study

Kristine Sabillo 8 Apr 2025
Banner image of a used tire by Marek Šašek via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How tires leave a long trail of destruction

Mongabay.com 8 Apr 2025
Women sorting tree seedlings for reforestation in Uganda.

Funding freeze threatens global reforestation and restoration efforts

Marina Martinez 8 Apr 2025

What do CITES data tell us about the legal wildcat trade?

Alex Shaw, Spoorthy Raman 7 Apr 2025
The Pesalat Reforestation Project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Humanity’s long standing bet on the persistence of forest carbon storage capacity urgently needs to be reassessed, says study lead author Michael Windisch

Betting on future forest carbon storage endangers Paris Agreement targets

Sean Mowbray 3 Apr 2025

‘Plastic People’ documentary exposes the human health threats from plastic 

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2025

Nearly one-third of fungi on IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction

Bobby Bascomb 2 Apr 2025
Banner image of deep-sea corals on the ocean floor via NOAA (Public domain).

Global seabed regulator concerned by mining company’s unilateral actions

Kristine Sabillo 2 Apr 2025
Banana crop in Uganda.

Ground-level ozone pollution poses growing threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 2 Apr 2025
An acacia plant hosting stinging ants for defense. Image by Ryan Somma via Flickr (CCBY-SA2.0).

The vast venomous world of plants, fungi, bacteria: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Apr 2025
Sumaco volcano in Ecuador at sunset. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rethinking carbon: The climate movement needs to be a human one, says Paul Hawken

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 1 Apr 2025

Forest restoration is booming but biodiversity isn’t

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2025

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