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The Diavik diamond mine in northwestern Canada. Image from Google Maps.

Canada invests $1m into mining exploration on Indigenous land

Shanna Hanbury 25 Mar 2026

As Sri Lankans choke on bad air, authorities cite transboundary pollution

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 25 Mar 2026
The WeMUNIZE program in Nigeria, significantly disrupted by aid cuts, used digital record keeping and community engagement to increase early childhood immunizations. Image by KC Nwakalor for USAID/Digital Development Communications via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdown

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Mar 2026

Another legal challenge for TotalEnergies in South Africa  

Victoria Schneider 24 Mar 2026

Kenya marks World Meteorological Day amid dozens of flood fatalities

Lynet Otieno 24 Mar 2026
An adult ampurta caught for measurements, reproductive assessment and genetic analysis during field surveys. Photo credit: Dympna Cullen

Defying drought and invasives, a feisty Australian marsupial makes a comeback

Jenny Denton 24 Mar 2026

Eastern monarch butterfly populations increase in 2025, but challenges remain

David Brown 24 Mar 2026

Vietnam and Russia advance nuclear power deal as energy security concerns grow in Southeast Asia

Associated Press 24 Mar 2026
A ranger at Upemba National Park.

Upemba National Park staff recount assault that left seven dead

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Mar 2026
Manatees image courtesy of Jorge Zamora.

On Manatee Appreciation Day, remember these gentle giants who protect aquatic ecosystems (commentary)

Omar Vidal 24 Mar 2026

China’s deep-sea mining fleet may also track US submarines

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Kara Fox 24 Mar 2026

Argentina updates national IUCN mammal list with new focus on non-native species

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2026
A palm cockatoo in a tree

Conservation win as first palm cockatoo chick fledges from artificial hollow in Australia

Megan Strauss 24 Mar 2026
Sperm Whales Up Close Underwater in Indian Ocean, Western Australia. Photo credit: © Alex Westover

The ocean’s enforcement gap

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Mar 2026
Occupation of Funai’s Altamira branch. Image courtesy of the Medio Xingu Indigenous Women’s Movement.

Indigenous groups demand halt to Belo Sun Amazon gold mine

Shanna Hanbury 23 Mar 2026
Trash bags full of discarded plastic. Image by Adil Edin via Unsplash (Public domain).

Huge amounts of nanoplastics discovered in tap and bottled water

Shanna Hanbury 23 Mar 2026
White rhinoceros, Khama Rhino Sanctuary, Botswana

Can this giant freezer de-extinct animals?

Izzy Sasada 23 Mar 2026

French company stops US offshore wind projects in $1B deal with Trump administration

Associated Press 23 Mar 2026
Lilac-breasted roller in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Image courtesy of Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

How Namibia’s bird conservation projects build community resilience (commentary)

Martha Karas 23 Mar 2026
The endangered Sumatran laughingthrush is another masterbird species threatened by trade. Image by Simon Bruslund

Songbird trade threatens lesser-known ‘master birds’ with secondary extinctions: Study

Sean Mowbray 23 Mar 2026
Lake Victoria in Kenya. Image by Jozef020 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World Water Day: Earth’s freshwater reveals new species & faces mounting threats

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2026
Fish on a beach in New Ireland province. Image ©Sebastian Velasquez.

PNG’s New Ireland coastal waters causing fish deaths, human sickness

John Cannon 20 Mar 2026

Captive-bred Panamanian golden frogs released to the wild

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Mar 2026

Vatican launches campaign to encourage divestment from mining industries

Associated Press 20 Mar 2026

Proboscis monkey found in Thailand adds to evidence of cross-border illegal trade

Ana Norman Bermúdez 20 Mar 2026

Deep-sea mining rules face delays despite urgent push

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Mar 2026
Vincent Tateburuk

Many Indigenous peoples in Asia feel excluded from nat’l biodiversity planning: Report

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 20 Mar 2026
The four adult female gorillas on the day they were reintroduced to the wild in Virunga National Park in December 2024.

World Rewilding Day: Hope for species and ecosystems

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2026

Deadly Indonesia landfill collapse a ‘serious warning’ of systemic failure

Naina Rao 20 Mar 2026
A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ship.

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)

Susan Chomba, Million Belay 20 Mar 2026

California condors nesting in Pacific Northwest for first time in a century, on Yurok territory

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2026
Officers display pangolin scales intended for smuggling into Cambodia.

Jakarta port authorities seize 3 tons of pangolin scales in Cambodia-bound container

Anggita Raissa 20 Mar 2026

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