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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
Clearing of peat forest in Indonesia's Riau Province. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Forest Declaration Assessment reveals a forest paradox

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2025
Chris Allnutt at the Heiltsuk First Nations' Koeye Lodge. The dogs are bear dogs to warn and protect the youth if there is a Grizzly bear coming into the camp. Image by Jens Wieting

Chris Allnutt, negotiator who helped protect the Great Bear Rainforest, died on September 21st

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2025
Consumed book cover

Plastic’s triumph was no accident. It built an economy addicted to throwaway living

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2025

Rescued African gray parrots return to DRC forests

Didier Makal 21 Oct 2025
A slender-billed curlew illustration by Elizabeth Gould & Edward Lear via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

The slender-billed curlew, a migratory waterbird, is officially extinct: IUCN

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2025
An Eskom power station in South Africa's Mpumalanga province. Image courtesy of Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp (CCBY-ND4.0).

South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments

Victoria Schneider 20 Oct 2025
Community people in Jhumlabang gathered in a community meeting in July. Image courtesy of Jhumlabang Village Foundation (JVF).

In Nepal’s hills, a fight brews over the country’s biggest iron deposit

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Oct 2025
A green turtle. Image by Bernard DUPONT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Green turtle rebounds, moving from ‘endangered’ to ‘least concern’

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2025
Tony James. From the Stabroek News Facebook page.

Chief Kokoi, defender of the Rupununi, died on October 12th

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2025
Rodrigues fody by pierrickferret via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

20 animal species on the road to recovery: IUCN Red List update

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Oct 2025
An elk in the Rocky Mountains, where the headwaters of the Colorado River lie. Image courtesy of Fin and Fur Films.

‘We can have abundant rivers and wildlife’: Director of ‘The American Southwest’ on new film

John Cannon 15 Oct 2025

Losing Nemo: In the Red Sea, clownfish vanish as anemones bleach

Liz Kimbrough 14 Oct 2025
Pipistrellus etula. Image courtesy of Laura Torrent

World’s 1,500th known bat species confirmed from Equatorial Guinea

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Oct 2025
Coralscape in Komodo, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Protecting Earth’s oldest data system: the case for biodiversity

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2025
Akhyari Hananto. Courtesy of Hananto

Connecting Indonesia’s environmental stories to millions

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Oct 2025
Kolkata was waterlogged after a sudden intense downpour on Sept. 23. Image by Dipanwita Saha.

Climate change and aging drains wreak havoc on Kolkata, India

Mongabay.com 13 Oct 2025

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