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A traditional fishermen in an Indigenous territory on the Tapajós River, in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Marcio Isensee e Sá. Licensed via Adobe Photo Stock

With record $5.3B in pledges, GEF aims for more flexible environmental funding

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Apr 2022

Beyond CO2, tropical forests a ‘cool’ solution to climate crisis, study finds

John Cannon 22 Apr 2022
Detroit Dam in Oregon

The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem?

Petro Kotzé 21 Apr 2022

Convention on Biological Diversity: progress, hope and hard work ahead

Mike Gaworecki 20 Apr 2022
Trees laden with epiphytes in a Brazilian garden by Marianne North, 1873, via The Public Catalogue Foundation.

Amateur naturalists deserve more support and fewer barriers (commentary)

Rajith Dissanayake 20 Apr 2022
Luz Marina Valle shows off produce after working with the Fundación Entre Mujeres in Nicaragua.

Funding for women-led conservation remains tiny, but that’s changing fast

Dimitri Selibas 20 Apr 2022
Tree rings on a dead tree.

Tropical trees’ growth and CO2 intake hit by more extreme dry seasons

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2022
A Royal Navy research vessel patrols Antarctica.

Robot revolution: A new real-time accounting system for ocean carbon

Elizabeth Devitt 18 Apr 2022
The Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica is an area of much conservation effort. Image courtesy of Osa Conservation.

Are conservation trust funds part of the answer for ongoing land protection? (commentary)

Anne Lambert 14 Apr 2022
Rice planting. Image via MASIPAG.

From traditional practice to top climate solution, agroecology gets growing attention

Anna Lappé 13 Apr 2022

Of rats and bats: Hundreds of mammal species still unidentified, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 Apr 2022
tigers in a zoo

Tiger politics and tiger conservation: Where the stakeholders are going wrong (commentary)

Chris Slappendel 13 Apr 2022
A red-eyed tree frog in Brazil.

Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Apr 2022
Musk oxen.

‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restoration

John Cannon 11 Apr 2022
Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 2022

After failure, reflection: effective conservation requires regular assessments (commentary)

David Wilkie, Heidi Kretser, Kara Stevens, Matthew Carr, Richard Margoluis 7 Apr 2022

More than half of activists killed in 2021 were land, environment defenders

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Apr 2022

Afield at last, researchers head out for a new season

Mike Gaworecki 7 Apr 2022

How much does air travel warm the planet? New study gives a figure

Liz Kimbrough 6 Apr 2022
A hawksbill sea turtle

Shell of a comeback: New app, awareness campaigns bring hope for hawksbill turtles

Carly Nairn 6 Apr 2022

Photography, nature, truth and war: Q&A with top photographer Ami Vitale

Erik Hoffner 6 Apr 2022
The new Future Seeds facility holds the world's largest collection of bean varieties. Photo via The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT / Juan Pablo Marin

Climate change causes a run on banks, for crop genes (commentary)

Marcela Santaella 5 Apr 2022

IPCC report calls for ‘immediate and deep’ carbon cuts to slow climate change

John Cannon 5 Apr 2022
Shouf Biosphere Reserve restoration project, Lebanon

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for April 2022

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2022

Climate crisis forecasts a fragile future for wildflowers and pollinators

Spoorthy Raman 1 Apr 2022
A bloated humpback whale on a beach in California, U.S.

That dead whale on the beach? Let it be, study says. Or at least don’t blow it up

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Mar 2022

The ocean is a cacophony of fish talk, study shows. We just can’t hear it

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 30 Mar 2022

Coalition against online wildlife trafficking shares little evidence of success (analysis)

Toby McIntosh 25 Mar 2022

Study links many reported fisheries crimes to just a few repeat offenders

Annelise Giseburt 24 Mar 2022

Marine cold spells, a potential buffer against warming seas, are fading away

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Mar 2022
Indigenous Masai women at a community leadership meeting in Kenya. Photo by Edna Kaptoyo, Community Conservation Resilience Initiative, 2018

Indigenous land rights take center stage in a new global framework for biodiversity conservation (commentary)

Karl Burkart 24 Mar 2022

Crucial to conservation, Indigenous communities’ environmental leadership endures

Mike Gaworecki 24 Mar 2022

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