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Land subsidence is putting buildings in five Indian megacities, including Delhi, pictured here, at high risk of structural damage. Image by Pinakpani via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Indian megacities are sinking putting thousands of buildings at risk: Study

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2025

How religious beliefs may help protect Mentawai’s forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2025
O'Shaughnessy's chameleon (Calumma oshaughnessyi), restricted to Madagascar. Image courtesy of Ricardo Rocha.

Island-confined reptiles face high extinction risk, but low research interest

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Nov 2025
California sea lion by Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Chronic diseases prevalent across animals, but understudied: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Nov 2025
A forest fire in August 2025 in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Weather disasters are surging in the Amazon. Reporting isn’t.

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Nov 2025
People displaced by fighting in Cabo Delgado province, where Palma is located. Image courtesy of Mauricio Bisol/UNICEF.

TotalEnergies faces criminal complaint in France over alleged massacre in Mozambique

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Nov 2025
Illegal air strips identified during the investigation.

Mongabay Latam wins the Global Shining Light Award for investigative journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Nov 2025
Vicente Fernandes Vilhalva. Photo courtesy of Aty Guasu/Survival International

A killing with precedent: Kaiowá man’s murder fits a pattern in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2025

Bearing witness to Indonesia’s environmental challenges: Sapariah Saturi

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2025
Pokigron and Atjoni villages beside the Suriname River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Why don’t forest protectors get paid? asks Suriname’s president

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2025
Banzeiro da Easperanza in Belem. Photo by Lucas Boony

A forest worth more standing: Virgilio Viana on what it will take to protect the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2025
Parasitic ant queen Lasius orientalis, left, approaches the queen of L. flavus to spray her with a fluid. Image by Takasuka et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0)

Game of tiny thrones: Parasitic ants grab power by turning workers against their queen

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2025

Mongabay journalist Malavika Vyawahare honored with SEAL Award

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Nov 2025
Dodo bird icon.

A slowdown, not salvation: what new extinction data reveal about the state of life on Earth

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2025
Gayatri Reksodihardjo-Lilley. Photo by Surya Risuana.

Gayatri Reksodihardjo-Lilley, who helped Indonesian communities restore their reefs, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2025
Saalumarada Thimakka receives the Padma Shri from President Ram Nath Kovind. Photo by President's Secretariat (GODL-India).

Saalumarada Thimmakka, mother of trees, has died, aged 114

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Nov 2025
Akhyari Hananto. Courtesy of Hananto

From rock music to rainforests: Akhyari Hananto’s unlikely path to impact

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2025
Construction site of the TotalEnergies-operated Afungi LNG plant. Image courtesy of Justiça Ambiental.

TotalEnergies moves to restart Mozambique LNG project despite security, eco concerns

Victoria Schneider 13 Nov 2025
Jane Goodall with Roots & Shoots members. Photo by Mary Paris/JGI

At her memorial, a call to carry Jane Goodall’s hope forward

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2025
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre with Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert.

Donors renew $1.8 billion pledge for Indigenous land rights

Shanna Hanbury 12 Nov 2025
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

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