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Denica Riadini-Flesch in Indonesia. Photo by Muhammad Fadli / National Geographic

Regenerative fashion initiative in Indonesia wins 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Oct 2025
Tony Pritzker speaking at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) gala. Courtesy of IoES.

Tony Pritzker’s patient strategy for the planet

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2025
Satellite image of Lake Chad. Image courtesy of Maxar.

Ani Dasgupta watched wetlands tame floods in Kigali. He believes nature is infrastructure we can fund.

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Sep 2025
Banner image of an Encephalartos horridus in a greenhouse under natural sunlight. Image courtesy of Takashi Nobusawa/Hiroshima University.

Scientists decode the unusual silver-blue color of an ancient South African plant

Kristine Sabillo 29 Aug 2025
Banner image of a striped albatross butterfly (Appias libythea) on a red leea plant (Leea rubra), courtesy of NTU Singapore.

Singapore study says roadside flowers can improve urban butterfly biodiversity

Kristine Sabillo 12 May 2025
Banner image: Tourists interact with birds at the Bouddhanath shrine in Kathmandu. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi

As Kathmandu’s birds get used to humans, biodiversity suffers, studies show

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Oct 2024

Flocking together may create birds of a feather, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Apr 2024
A wildlife crossing over Highway 1 in Israel. Image by Hagai Agmon-Snir via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Can ‘road ecology’ save millions of animals?

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Sep 2023
During their five-year project, To-Syn-Fuel converted more than 500 metric tons of dried sewage sludge into 50,000 liters (13,200 gallons) of oil.

Crud-to-crude: The global potential of biofuels made from human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2023
Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Image by Karsten Winegeart via Unsplash.

Hawaiian communities restore Indigenous conservation, from mountains to sea

Roxanne Hoorn 2 May 2023
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

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2022

Color-changing robo-chameleon showcases promising camouflage tech

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Aug 2021

An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 1 Mar 2021
Pine forest in the Sierra Nevada. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Bold sustainability commitments: An interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2020
Installation view of Anicka Yi, Le Pain Sympathetique, 2014, mixed media, The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection, May 19, 2019–January 27, 2020 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art. Photo by Zak Kelley. Anicka has conserved a large parcel of cloud forest in Central America via Art into Acres.

Can an art museum drive sustainability? Q&A with MOCA’s Klaus Biesenbach

Dave Martin 14 Oct 2020

Through biomimicry, Brazil seeks tech innovations inspired by nature

Sibélia Zanon 28 Apr 2020

This toad from central Africa impersonates a deadly viper to avoid predators

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2019

As opposition wanes, a Malaysian land reclamation project pushes ahead

Keith Schneider 2 Jul 2019

Architects bring bamboo revival to Indonesian village

Eko Rusdianto 4 Mar 2019

A civic outcry in Malaysia forces a Chinese builder to live up to its eco-friendly tag

Keith Schneider 5 Sep 2018

Bat’s tongue could inspire miniature surgical robot design

Mongabay.com 6 May 2013

A bold design for conservation

Guest Jayashree Rukhaiyar 7 Sep 2012

Singing frog leads to insights into human hearing

Jeremy Hance 3 Aug 2011

Can ’boutique capitalism’ help protect the Amazon?

Jeremy Hance 11 Oct 2010

Is El Niño back?

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2009

New glass could reduce one billion annual bird deaths from U.S. window collisions

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jul 2009

Universal phone charger to cut e-waste

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2009

Obama pick supports ‘Green Jobs’ initiative to rebuild economy

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2008

Discovery may lead to organic acrylic glass made from sugar

Mongabay.com 16 Nov 2008

Green New Deal will spark global economy, create jobs

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2008

Financial crisis could pave way for greener economy inspired by nature

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2008

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