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A woman uses a new cookstove in the village of Bang in the North region of Cameroon.

Cameroon cookstove project looks to slow forest loss

Leocadia Bongben 30 Jan 2026

Australia’s land-use squeeze

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jan 2026

Data show oil and gas blocks cover one-fourth of Ecuador, mostly in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 29 Jan 2026
Pirarucu fish on a boat on the Jurua River. Image courtesy of Joao Campos-Silva.

In the Brazilian Amazon, community conservation success comes with a cost: Study

Logan Rance 29 Jan 2026
An aerial view of Black River, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. Image by AP Photo/Matias Delacroix.

More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025

Shanna Hanbury 29 Jan 2026
Salam came here from North Sulawesi 10 years ago and now has a farm of 1,200 peppercorn trees.

Worries grow for Sulawesi farmers as nickel mining company plans expansion

Richard Kent 29 Jan 2026
A flowering rainforest tree in the Amazon.

Drone-mounted eDNA hints at richness of life in the rainforest canopy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Jan 2026
Papuan Indigenous people and activists hold a protest against Merauke Food Estate in front of the Defense Ministry office in Jakarta in 2024.

Indonesia fast-tracks final permit for Papua rice megaproject without Indigenous consent

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jan 2026

Five detained over alleged hunting in Javan leopard habitat

Basten Gokkon 29 Jan 2026
Tapir in Brazil. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Brazil sets out its strategy for nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jan 2026

Judge rules Massachusetts offshore wind project halted by Trump administration can continue

Associated Press 28 Jan 2026
As COP30 unfolded in Belém this past November, civil defense coordinator Edson Abreu dos Santos decided to revisit the areas that had burned in Acará.

Seminarian-turned-fire-agent preaches new tactics to fight Amazon’s burn crisis

Carla Ruas 28 Jan 2026
Collage featuring a puma and Ida Isabel Auris Arango, shepherd and Quechua woman

Women secure a future with pumas in the Andes

Romi Castagnino 28 Jan 2026
a newly hatched Rote Island snake-necked turtles (Chelodina mccordi) at the turtle survival center in South Carolina USA. Photo by Liz Kimbrough

The Turtle Bank: The last of these Asian turtle species find refuge in the Carolina pines

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jan 2026
A mountain gorilla, a subspecies of the eastern gorilla, in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Study ties same-sex behavior in primates to ecological and social pressures

Aimable Twahirwa 28 Jan 2026

Wildlife attacks and strange animal behavior — fake images spark conservation concerns

Sean Mowbray 28 Jan 2026
The Dayak Bahau community in Long Isun expresses its complaint. Image courtesy of Accountability Counsel.

World Bank carbon program risks further infringing upon rights of Indonesian Indigenous community (commentary)

Fuat Edi Kurniawan, Sadar Ginting, Anna Christi Suwardi 28 Jan 2026
An olive tree and grove. Image by Dimitris Vetsikas via Pixabay.

Europe’s olive grove crisis affects nature & culture, but has solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Jan 2026
The government of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state has banned shark meat for meals in most of the schools it manages, after pressure from conservationists and school meal advisers raising health and environmental concerns.

Rio de Janeiro state bans shark meat for school meals

Karla Mendes 27 Jan 2026
Corals in Thailand

Coast-to-coast coral assessment reveals Thailand’s reefs losing complexity

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jan 2026
Lion. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Poaching African lions for black market could pose existential threat

Bobby Bascomb 27 Jan 2026

Tree spirits: The unintended ecology of belief

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2026
Food security activist Richard Rojo in his Vanuatu taro garden. Image courtesy of Monica Kidd.

Vanuatu communities move to protect taro, an ancestral climate-resilient crop (analysis)

Monica Kidd 26 Jan 2026
Rainim Purba gives a speech and attempts to climb a fence during a protest urging the ministry of environment to revoke PT DPM’s environmental permit in Jakarta, May 2025.

The long struggle of women farmers to halt a zinc mine in North Sumatra

Tonggo Simangunsong 26 Jan 2026

‘Political will is everything’: Interview with Kenyan Environment Minister Deborah Barasa

David Akana 26 Jan 2026
A file photo of the Wakashio shipwreck from 2020. Image by imo.un via

More than 5 years after Wakashio oil spill, questions linger in Mauritius

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jan 2026

Patagonia fires reignite debate over Argentina’s underfunded environmental agencies

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jan 2026

José Zanardini, the priest who tried to reconcile faith and Indigenous autonomy

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2026
Neighborhood affected by floods in Arroio do Meio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Brazil federal government.

Many Amazon climate disasters are missing from official records, study finds

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2026

Honeyguide birds learn local human dialects

Ryan Truscott 23 Jan 2026

Staying with the story: Isabel Esterman on long-term nature reporting in Southeast Asia

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 23 Jan 2026
Kirtida Mekani. Photo courtesy of Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame

Kirtida Mekani, Singapore’s tree lady, has died, aged 66

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2026

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