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A ray swims over seagrass in Australia.

As ocean acidification ramps up, experts call for speedy ocean protection

Sean Mowbray 26 Jun 2025

Colombian waste pickers inundate iconic Bogota square with plastic bottles to protest falling wages

Associated Press 26 Jun 2025

In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state

Emilia Paz, Miño, Isabela Ponce 26 Jun 2025
Pangolins curl into a ball as part of their self-defense, with scales acting as armor to protect their body. The WJC report estimates that the 370 tons of pangolin scales seized between 2015 and 2024 represent between 100,000 and a million pangolins.

The illegal trade in ivory and pangolin scales has fallen sharply since COVID-19. But for how long?

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jun 2025

Plastic bag bans linked to sharp decline in coastal litter, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 25 Jun 2025
The Miami Bull, a robot-like statue of a bull, is meant to emulate Wall Street’s “Charging Bull,” and was unveiled to kick off the Bitcoin 2022 conference.

Bitcoin boom comes with huge intensifying environmental footprint

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 25 Jun 2025

Brazil’s Indigenous Akroá Gamella reclaim and restore their land, one patch at a time

Felipe Duran 25 Jun 2025
The last of the sea nomads cling to their roots in a changing world

From catching fish to picking trash, Thailand’s sea nomads are forced off the water

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2025

Panama boosts protections in the Darién Gap, but deforestation threats still loom

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2025

Protecting the Darién Gap: Interview with Panama national parks director Luis Carles Rudy

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2025
Fungi are our climate allies | Against All Odds

Of mushrooms and mycelium: How fungi are powering eco-friendly solutions

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2025
Illegal gold mining inside the Munduruku and Sai Cinza Indigenous Lands

Nine takeaways on Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku lands

Aimee Gabay 23 Jun 2025
A mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator).

EU remains major wildlife trafficking hub, report finds

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Jun 2025
Vultures feeding on carrion. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

As large scavengers decline, disease risk soars, study finds

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2025
Banner image of the Liberia-flagged vessel MSC Elsa 3 that sank on May 25 off southern India. Image courtesy of the Indian Coast Guard.

Twin ship disasters in India threaten widespread pollution on Sri Lankan coasts

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jun 2025
Pelicans have rebounded on the restored Queen Bess Island off the coast of Louisiana. Photo courtesy of Alisha Renfro

Pelicans recover, but dolphins and other species struggle 15 years after BP oil spill

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2025
Munduruku people from the Sawré Muybu village gather in an assembly to receive feedback from Fiocruz on the hair sample test results determining levels of mercury contamination in people. Image by Joao Paulo Guimaeres via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

After crackdown on illegal miners, Indigenous Munduruku still grapple with health aftermath

Karla Mendes, Fernanda Wenzel 16 Jun 2025

Microplastics and melting ice reveal deepening crisis in Antarctica

Soledad Domínguez 16 Jun 2025

Alaska wolves poisoned by mercury after switching to sea otter diet

Bobby Bascomb 13 Jun 2025
Sediment is clearly visible close to nickel mining operations on Kawe Island, Raja Ampat, discolouring the water in one of Indonesia’s most biodiverse marine areas. The concession covers an area of 5,922 hectares and is located within the mega-biodiversity region of Raja Ampat, West Papua. Image courtesy of Greenpeace.

No respite for Indonesia’s Raja Ampat as nickel companies sue to revive mines

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jun 2025
Keleino and his colleagues leave a community after training for the city of Lae.

‘It’s our garden’: PNG villages fight to prevent mine waste dumping in the sea

John Cannon 13 Jun 2025
California Wildfires in August 2018.

Climate futures: What’s ahead for our world beyond 1.5°C of warming?

Claire Asher 12 Jun 2025
Students in Afghanistan walk to school in a sand storm during a drought in 2019.

Climate futures: World leaders’ failure to act is pushing Earth past 1.5°C

Claire Asher 11 Jun 2025
Abundant in the Sargasso Sea (above), sargassum has been blossoming in the Caribbean and on the Amazon shore.

New study dismisses Amazon River runoff as primary cause of sargassum blooms

Julian Reingold 11 Jun 2025
A seaweed farmer on Nusa Lembongan flashes a warm, cheeky smile as she moves through her daily harvesting routine.

Indonesian women sustain seaweed traditions in a changing climate

Maddy Bolt 10 Jun 2025

Our discarded phones each year can reach the moon… and back

Juan Maza 10 Jun 2025

Indonesia halts most nickel mining in Raja Ampat, but allows one controversial permit

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2025

Rare earth rush in Myanmar blamed for toxic river spillover into Thailand

Stefan Lovgren 9 Jun 2025
Biyem-Assi is one of the most populous districts, with nearly 49,000 inhabitants, not far from the city center.

In Yaoundé, fecal sludge flows through ‘Caca Junction’ streets

Fanta Mabo 9 Jun 2025

Pushback grows against nickel mining in Indonesian marine paradise of Raja Ampat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jun 2025
A moray eel in the coral reefs of the Daymaniyat Islands, Oman.

When our oceans can’t breathe, a sea change is needed (commentary)

Fred Boltz, Jeffrey Griffin 9 Jun 2025
Amsterdam, a car plugged into a charging station on a city street

EU appetite for EVs drives new wave of deforestation in tropical forests

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Jun 2025

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