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Rodrigues fody by pierrickferret via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

20 animal species on the road to recovery: IUCN Red List update

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Oct 2025
A teenage mahout and his elephant in Bogura, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh plans to rehabilitate captive elephants in the wild

Abu Siddique 16 Oct 2025
Deforestation for nickel mining in Gag Island, Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.

Nickel mining threatens Raja Ampat ecosystems, communities & conservation: Report

Basten Gokkon 16 Oct 2025
Mamai Lucille William. Photo courtesy of the North Pakaraimas District Council

Mamai Lucille Williams, a quiet symbol of dignity amid destruction, has died, aged about 93

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Oct 2025
A Clark's nutcracker, pictured here in California. Image by LassenNPS via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Warmer climate could slash threatened whitebark pine territory within decades: Study

John Cannon 15 Oct 2025
After a game of beach footvolley on a sweltering hot day in Beirut, Lebanon, a man cools off by pouring water on himself.

Feel the heat: New app maps heat stress anywhere on Earth, 1940 to now

Ruth Kamnitzer 15 Oct 2025
Putumayo’s women guardians defend land and culture amid Colombia’s deforestation

Putumayo’s women guardians defend land and culture amid Colombia’s deforestation

Natalia Arbelaez 15 Oct 2025

Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas

Associated Press 15 Oct 2025
Aloyce Mwakisoma. Photo by Andrea Bianchi

Aloyce Mwakisoma, keeper of forest knowledge in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains, has died at 45

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Oct 2025
Juruá red howler monkeys. Image courtesy of Anamélia de Souza Jesus.

Microplastics found in the stomachs of Amazon tree-dwelling monkeys

Shanna Hanbury 15 Oct 2025
A free-ranging chicken amid metal scrap in Thailand. The mismanagement of ash from incineration and metal production is another serious public health issue.

‘Alarming’ levels of toxins found in free-range eggs near dumpsites globally

Sean Mowbray 15 Oct 2025
An elk in the Rocky Mountains, where the headwaters of the Colorado River lie. Image courtesy of Fin and Fur Films.

‘We can have abundant rivers and wildlife’: Director of ‘The American Southwest’ on new film

John Cannon 15 Oct 2025
Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil must halt Liberian palm oil company’s abuses (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 15 Oct 2025

An invite to the tapir toilet buffet (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 15 Oct 2025

Voices from the Land

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2025

IUCN upholds long-tailed macaques’ endangered status after complaint

Gerald Flynn 15 Oct 2025
Yesid Achicue, an Indigenous mountain guide from the Cauca region in Colombia. Image courtesy of Yesid Achicue.

As the Andes’ glaciers melt, our values can help: Voices from the land (commentary)

Yesid Achicue 14 Oct 2025
Whānganui River

Pioneering policies and rights-of-nature rules win World Future Policy Awards

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Oct 2025

Local divers pick away at Lake Malawi’s underwater garbage problem

Charles Mpaka 14 Oct 2025

In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, youths blend ancestral and world faiths to protect forests

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Oct 2025

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report

Bobby Bascomb 14 Oct 2025

China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as competition at home intensifies

Associated Press 14 Oct 2025
In February, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva praised planned investments by Vale during a public event in Pará state, urging the company to ensure dam safety. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Presidência da República.

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas

André Schröder 14 Oct 2025
Elephants move along a migration corridor in Kenya. Image courtesy of Hillary Rosner.

Migrating elephants get room to roam via community conservation efforts

Hillary Rosner 14 Oct 2025

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study

Mark Hillsdon 14 Oct 2025
Forest recovery in the Brazilian Amazon. Image courtesy of Celso Silva Junior.

Report finds increased tropical forest regrowth over the last decade

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2025
Recent fires in the Amazon Rainforest degraded a large portion of the world’s primary forests. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Global goal of zero deforestation by 2030 is severely off track

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2025
Pipistrellus etula. Image courtesy of Laura Torrent

World’s 1,500th known bat species confirmed from Equatorial Guinea

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Oct 2025
Coralscape in Komodo, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Protecting Earth’s oldest data system: the case for biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2025

Peru considers stripping protections for Indigenous people and their territories

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2025

Death toll from torrential rains in Mexico rises to 64 as search operations expand

Associated Press 13 Oct 2025
Akhyari Hananto. Courtesy of Hananto

Connecting Indonesia’s environmental stories to millions

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Oct 2025

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