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World leaders link arms ahead of the COP30 climate summit. Image courtesy of the European Union.

Governments commit to recognizing 160 million hectares of Indigenous land

Shanna Hanbury 12 Nov 2025
Spiny-tailed Iguana from Clarion Island. Image courtesy of D.G. Mulcahy.

Iguanas on Mexico’s Clarion Island likely native, not introduced by people: Study

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2025
Tree Aid’s efforts as part of the Great Green Wall has resulted in planting nearly 28 million trees in the region so far.

New directory helps donors navigate the complex world of global reforestation

Liz Kimbrough 12 Nov 2025
Thomas J.K.L. Koroma II, paramount chief of Sitta Chiefdom, signs the revenue-sharing carbon agreement. Image courtesy of Namati.

Sierra Leone communities sign carbon agreement based on carbon justice principles

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Nov 2025

Coal-dependent South Africa struggles to make just energy transition real

Anna Weekes 11 Nov 2025
Technicians in Zimbabwe inspect solar panels. Image © UNDP Zimbabwe.

What does the just energy transition mean for Africa?

John Cannon 10 Nov 2025
People in the Amazon rainforest understory. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A blueprint for communicating about the Amazon rainforest (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Nov 2025
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Three tracks to rescue 1.5°C: fossil exit, forest protection, and nature’s carbon (commentary)

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho 8 Nov 2025
Video of a brown rat catching a bat at Segeberger Kalkberg. Image courtesy of Gloza-Rausch et al., 2025 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Europe’s under-pressure bats face ‘astonishing’ threat: Ambush by rats

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2025
Cacao. Image courtesy of Instituto Arapyaú

Brazil can protect its forests while growing its economy, says Arapyaú’s Renata Piazzon

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Nov 2025
Girl with a seedling in Northern California. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Investing in the next generation of environmental journalists (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2025
Mount Mulanje in southeastern Malawi. Known as the “Island in the Sky,” Mount Mulanje, with 13 peaks and high-altitude basins, is rich in biodiversity with over 70 endemic species and provides surrounding communities with freshwater, natural forest products and essential protection from storms. Image by David Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr

‘A big no’: Opposition grows to proposed mine in Malawi’s newest UNESCO site

Ruth Kamnitzer 4 Nov 2025
Ganga River at Varanasi ghat. Image by Babasteve via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

India’s Ganga River drying at unprecedented levels

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2025
Puerto Caimán Island in the Curare-Los Ingleses Indigenous Reserve’s conservation area.

Indigenous communities protect Colombia’s uncontacted peoples

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2025

New arrangements should preserve Nairobi’s much-loved Karura Forest

Dann Okoth 4 Nov 2025
Rainforest in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Beyond deforestation: redesigning how we protect and value tropical forests (analysis)

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025
Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang

One man’s mission to rewild a dying lake

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025
Banyan tree in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

What might lie ahead for tropical forests (analysis)

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Nov 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2025
Murina baletei. Image courtesy of D. Balete.

Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2025
Hagar Kudzordi Widow of Samuel Abayateye, looks at photos of her deceased husband, hoping to get answers. Image by Gideon Anku

A fisheries observer disappeared at sea. His family still waits for answers

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2025
Annual deforestation in the Legal Amazon (Amazonia) from 1988-2025, according to a preliminary estimate from Brazil's national space research institute, INPE.

Heading into COP, Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate is falling. What about fires?

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2025
Sixty-seven Filipinos are suing Shell for damages suffered during Typhoon Rai in 2021. Image ©Miguel de Guzman/Greenpeace.

Filipino survivors of deadly 2021 typhoon planning to sue Shell for damages

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Oct 2025
A Bornean orangutan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Why facts alone won’t save the planet

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2025
Austin and his technician, Nathan Tang, searching the sand dunes for insects at Death Valley National Park

California’s grand insect census

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2025
Visitors to a safari park in Gazipur enjoy a ride on an elephant.

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2025
A beaver explores its new home at Tásmam Koyóm in 2023.

California learns from its beaver reintroductions

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Oct 2025
A TotalEnergies petrol station in Handeni Tanga, Tanzania. Image by Praygod mwanga via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY4.0).

Oil and gas giant TotalEnergies found guilty of greenwashing

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025
A representation of a bisected nautilus.

Why independent journalism is a strategic investment for philanthropy (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Oct 2025
Christmas Island shrew

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2025
Cultivated poke bowl produced by Ivy Farm. Photo courtesy of Ivy Farm

Reimagining meat: The Good Food Institute’s bid to redesign the global food system

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2025
Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation leader Fikile Ntshangase was killed in 2020. Image courtesy of Lunga Bhengu/groundWork.

‘We are just waiting to die’: Mining activists targeted as South Africa delays energy transition

Anna Weekes 23 Oct 2025

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