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Shark meat on sale in Brazil is labeled as “cação,” a generic term whose true meaning is unknown to most Brazilians, surveys show.

Mongabay shark meat investigation shortlisted for two journalism awards in Brazil

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2026
A sugar glider.

Animal cafes and exotic pet trade bring wildlife disease risks into public spaces

Arathi Menon 13 Nov 2026
Farmers tend cropland in Mozambique. The 2015-2016 El Niño brought prolonged drought to southern Africa, reducing crop yields and impacting food security for millions of people. As climate change-induced drought intensifies, repeated annual crop losses lead to long-term economic hardships, impacting mental health including depression and anxiety, a set of conditions that has led to higher suicide rates among farmers in southern Africa.

Smallholder farmers struggle on El Niño frontline; will the world help?

Sean Mowbray 12 Nov 2026
A man working separating coconuts from their skin in Bến Tre province.

Vietnam’s freshwater obsession leaves decades-long scars for Mekong Delta farmers

Nguyen Tra My 12 Nov 2026
Long-tailed macaques being held at Sookvannaseng Integrated's breeding farm in Bolikhamsai province, Laos. Image supplied by source.

Wildlife trade regulator CITES lifts sanctions against Laos, prompting conservation concerns

Gerald Flynn 12 Nov 2026
Neil Vora

Epidemiologist Neil Vora joins Mongabay’s board as it expands global reach and planetary health coverage

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2026
A clay robber frog seen near the Boracéia Biological Station in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Investigation: Fungus may have killed Atlantic Forest amphibians in the 1970s and ’80s

Sean Mowbray 10 Nov 2026
Two women walk together at a marathon race.

Is your gym attire setting you up for health problems?

Ouma Elvine Tina 10 Nov 2026
A COMMUS mining pit near the home of a resident in Kolwezi. Image by Didier Makal/Mongabay.

DRC residents sue Chinese mining company over alleged pollution in Kolwezi

Anne Nzouankeu, Will Mbuyu 10 Nov 2026
Conservationist Wayan Wardika in the farm.

A plan to save Bali’s vanishing fireflies takes root in organic farming

Mongabay.com 10 Nov 2026
Seaweed farmer Jonalyn Rentuaya holds a line of dried seaweed. While many community members have left since the spill, Rentuaya remains, saying she is hopeful the sea can be rehabilitated. Image by Pippo Carmona for Mongabay.

A year after a wastewater spill in the Philippines, communities fight to save a dying sea

Pippo Carmona 10 Nov 2026
Collage Maxwell Radwin and Gold mine

This riverside border town is fueling an illegal gold rush

Julia Lima, Maxwell Radwin 7 Nov 2026

Peru’s drive for critical minerals threatens a disappearing glacier

Euan Wallace 6 Nov 2026
In Brazil, the country’s first urban yellow fever outbreak in more than 80 years was triggered by record drought, along with deforestation and other land use change.

Drought driven by climate change is redefining how disease spreads, study finds

Adam Litchkofski 6 Nov 2026

Extreme heat is creating a workplace health crisis in Bangladesh’s garment industry

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2026

3M agrees to pay more than $7 billion to settle ‘forever chemical’ groundwater contamination claims

Associated Press 5 Nov 2026
A water tap in the Cacique Chicão settlement in Recife's Ibura neighborhood.

Water rationing in Recife, Brazil, falls along racial lines

Adriana Amâncio, Áthila Galindo, Yamini Benites 4 Nov 2026
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) marine biologist Ong Chai Kee, left, and her colleague Mohd. Sahimi Abdul Rashid collect coral samples at Pulau Redang Marine Park, Malaysia, in September 2025. Image courtesy of Ong Chai Kee.

Microplastics pollute nearly two-thirds of corals in Malaysia’s marine protected area, study finds

Ashley Yeong 4 Nov 2026
Parisians try to stay cool on a hot summer day. Europe’s record heat wave this summer claimed 50,000 lives.

Extreme heat no longer confined to summer, extending health risks, study finds

Nick Ruggia 2 Nov 2026
In March, IBAMA dismantled an illegal mining operation in the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory in Roraima. This image from Operation Xapiri shows rocks resulting from bedrock blasting. After being crushed, the ore is processed using cyanide to separate the gold from other minerals.

Cyanide ponds from illegal mining threaten Amazon Indigenous territory

Elizabeth Oliveira 2 Nov 2026
Commuters on the road try to shield their noses from the thick haze as they drive.

Experts warn of long-term health risks as Indonesia’s wildfire haze takes a growing toll

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Nov 2026
Tesifying at a hearing, Mayerly López from Colombia, Marco Manobanda, an Indigenous fish-farmer from Las Naves, Ecuador. Image courtesy of Earthworks.

Environmental defenders testify about attacks in Latin America linked to Canadian mining companies

Annie Burns-Pieper 31 Oct 2026
A man carries a discarded television set that he bought in Tondo, Manila. Image © Greenpeace.

Philippines halts U.S. e-waste imports but struggles to police customs-free zones

Biena Magbitang, Helena Rodríguez Gómez, Louis Boyd-Madsen, Gabriele Di Donfrancesco 30 Oct 2026
A watercolor by the Indigenous Wayana, Aimawale Opoya.

Suriname’s rich archaeological history may hold keys to conservation

Peter Speetjens 28 Oct 2026
A vendor in Pakistan pushes his cart through smog in Lahore

In Pakistan’s Punjab, toxic air threatens wildlife amid a monitoring blind spot

Muhammad Talal 27 Oct 2026
Over the past century, humanity has invented thousands of novel chemicals.

Global framework urgently needed to assess emerging health risks of novel chemicals, experts say

Claire Asher 27 Oct 2026
A thick haze obscures the skyline behind the Central Business District area in Singapore, Oct. 9, 2026.

‘Influence without enforcement’: Indonesia’s fires test Singapore’s anti-haze law

Gabrielle See 27 Oct 2026
Internally displaced persons installing solar panels at a health center in northwestern Cameroon as part of the “Solar Bright Future” program. Image courtesy of Lokamitraa Tokala, Outreach and Partnerships Officer with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Action Campaign, an initiative of the UNDP.

Solar initiative brings power to clinics and jobs to displaced youths in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 26 Oct 2026
“Cooking gas cylinder…”: An artist draws cooking gas cylinders on a roadside fence near a gas retail outlet in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, where the use of LPG for cooking has risen in the last decade. Image by Ini Ekott for Mongabay.

5 million Nigerians gain clean cooking access annually, but it’s not enough, experts say

Ini Ekott 26 Oct 2026
The Arazaire community is split in two, bisected by the Inambari River. On the river's left bank, where residents once had agricultural plots, forest, and ceremonial lagoons, the landscape is now dominated by mercury-laden ponds and deforestation.

Amazon communities lose water as mining and deforestation reshape rivers

Vanessa Romo 23 Oct 2026

COP17: Open letter urges governments to keep extractives out of protected areas

David Akana 23 Oct 2026
A man rides a bicycle through thick haze caused by wildfires in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Oct. 23, 2026.

Indonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censored

Winda Charmila 23 Oct 2026

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