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Overuse is pushing the world toward ‘water bankruptcy’

Bobby Bascomb 21 Jan 2026
Farmers on a 1.6-hectare (4-acre) plot of oranges, avocado, maize and vegetables in Kenya.

Earth Rover Program seeks to track the world’s soil health

John Cannon 21 Jan 2026
Sulphur buckwheat seedlings at the Nupqu Native Plant Nursery in British Columbia.

Growing native plants to heal land at Indigenous owned nursery in British Columbia

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Jan 2026
Fishermen and birds coexist in harmony on almost all mudflats of coastal Bangladesh.

Is South Asia becoming inhospitable for migratory birds?

Sadiqur Rahman 21 Jan 2026
Sirsiya river in Nepal. image by Suresh Bidar

‘Holy river’ carries industrial waste & sewage from Nepal to India

Suresh Bidari 21 Jan 2026
After a game of beach footvolley on a sweltering hot day in Beirut, Lebanon, a man cools off by pouring water on himself.

2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows

Shanna Hanbury 20 Jan 2026
Pattie Gonia. Image by Evan Benally Atwood, courtesy of Pattie Gonia.

Drag artist Pattie Gonia on why nature advocacy needs joy to succeed

Mike DiGirolamo, Basten Gokkon 20 Jan 2026

Predators of the Great Wildebeest Migration: Then and now (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 20 Jan 2026

How US intervention could deepen Venezuela’s environmental crisis

Maxwell Radwin 20 Jan 2026
East African mahogany (Khaya anthotheca), Chirinda Forest, Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Tony Robello via Wikimedia Commons.

Too many African plants fall into the IUCN’s ‘not evaluated’ trap (commentary)

Victor Nsereko Wantate 20 Jan 2026

Brazil bets reducing poverty can protect the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Jan 2026
A Bangka slow loris (Nycticebus bancanus).

For two of the world’s most at-risk primates, threats abound and the future looks grim

Mino Rakotovao 20 Jan 2026

The knowledge to save coffee already exists, now it’s in one e-library

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jan 2026

From south to north, Sri Lanka’s cricket dreams undermine fragile ecosystems

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jan 2026
Flood survivors use logs to cross a river in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on Dec. 2, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara.

Indonesia sues 6 companies over alleged links to deadly floods & landslides

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Jan 2026

A new treaty comes into force to govern life on the high seas

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jan 2026

Mosquitoes in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest prefer human blood

Bobby Bascomb 16 Jan 2026

Colombia poised for another drop in deforestation in 2025, data show

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2026

How many insects does California have? We’re getting closer to an answer

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2026
Study co-lead author Luke Jeffrey climbs a tree in a melaleuca wetland forest to measure microbial community gas fluxes.

Hidden heroes: Australian tree bark microbes consume greenhouse & toxic gases

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 Jan 2026
Mike Heusner. Photo courtesy of Caribbean Lifestyle Belize

Mike Heusner, steward of Belize’s waters, has died, aged 86

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2026
African elephants fighting in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo by Julie Larsen © Wildlife Conservation Society.

Mongabay launches Newswire Desk to deliver bite-sized, accessible news on nature to diverse audiences

Mongabay.com 16 Jan 2026

Flores’ geothermal ambitions collide with justice, culture & local resistance

Basten Gokkon 16 Jan 2026
Loading a barge with iron ore from Simandou. Image by Paul Kagame via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Hopes and fears as Guinea exports iron ore from Simandou mines

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jan 2026
A mine in Likasi on November 26, 2025. Image by Glody MURHABAZI / AFP).

In the race for DRC’s critical minerals, community forests are on the frontline

Didier Makal, Latoya Abulu 16 Jan 2026
A crew prepares the ground for electric poles near homes destroyed by the Pacific Palisades Fire in Malibu, California, U.S., in January 2025. Image by AP Photo/Richard Vogel.

Ocean set ‘alarming’ new temperature record in 2025

Edward Carver 16 Jan 2026

Nitrogen may turbocharge regrowth in young tropical forest trees

Bobby Bascomb 15 Jan 2026
A mule deer buck at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge outside Denver, Colorado.

Involuntary parks: Human conflict is creating unintended refuges for wildlife

Annelise Giseburt 15 Jan 2026

A novel sanctuary in Antarctica is preserving ice samples from rapidly melting glaciers

Associated Press 15 Jan 2026

Indonesia backs away from coal exit test case amid financial and political pushback

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jan 2026
Doug McConnell. (Photo by Jack Uhalde)

Doug McConnell, interpreter of Northern California, has died, aged 80

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jan 2026
Surviving mangroves after Odette storm hit a local beach in Barangay Cayhagan, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental, December 2021.

Democratizing AI for conservation: Interview with Ai2’s Ted Schmitt and Patrick Beukema

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Jan 2026

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