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Rare plant species are especially vulnerable to climate change, and rarity is more common than previously understood

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2020
Coastline of the Big Island, Hawaii. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay.

Pangolins top the charts while climate stories lag: Insights on our 2019 reporting (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jan 2020

Ami Vitale on how meeting Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, changed her life

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jan 2020
The spider Pamphobeteus sp. (Theraphosidae) and Chiasmocleis royi. Photo by Emanuele Biggi.

Our most popular nature and environment stories

Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2020

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, Jan. 3, 2020

Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2020
Snorkeler with three juvenile whale sharks in the Sea of Cortez off Baja California, Mexico. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Our top nature drone photos of 2019 (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2019
Bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber 29 Dec 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, December 27, 2019

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2019

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2019

2019’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Emma Critchley, Douglas McCauley 25 Dec 2019

The best animal calls featured on the Mongabay Newscast in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2019

10 noteworthy books on conservation and the environment from 2019

John Cannon 23 Dec 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, December 20, 2019

Mongabay.com 20 Dec 2019

Paris accord ‘impossible to implement’ if tropical forest loss not stopped

Taran Volckhausen 19 Dec 2019

Three pangolin species closer to extinction: IUCN

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2019

The role of sustainable finance in Forest Landscape Restoration (commentary)

Ruben Coppus 17 Dec 2019

COP25: Self-serving G20 spites youth, humanity, world at climate talks

Justin Catanoso 17 Dec 2019

COP25: EU officials say biomass burning policy to come under critical review

Justin Catanoso 16 Dec 2019

Whitetip sharks declared critically endangered, but gain no protections in Pacific

Monica Evans 13 Dec 2019

COP25: Wood pellet CEO claims biomass carbon neutrality, despite science

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, December 13, 2019

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2019
Sue Palminteri with elephants. Courtesy of George Powell.

Conservation biologist and wildtech journalist Sue Palminteri, 1965-2019

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2019

It’s time for Climate Bonds Initiative to scrap its hydro certification scheme (commentary)

Josh Klemm 10 Dec 2019

Hopes dim as COP25 delegates dicker over Article 6 and world burns: critics

Justin Catanoso 9 Dec 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, December 6, 2019

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2019

Latest UN Emissions Gap Report finds world must ramp up climate ambitions at least threefold to meet Paris goals

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2019

Their land, our future: To arrest the climate crisis, we need a democratic overhaul (commentary)

Musimbi Kanyoro, Beth Roberts 2 Dec 2019

COP25 may put climate at greater risk by failing to address forests

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, November 29, 2019

Mongabay.com 29 Nov 2019
Rainforest in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

$10M in prize money for mapping rainforest biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2019

How listening to individual gibbons can benefit conservation

Mike Gaworecki 26 Nov 2019

Bringing back extinct plants to life: Q&A with ‘plant messiah’ Carlos Magdalena

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Nov 2019

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