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A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024
Fakir Altaf Hussain, a fisher in Bangladesh, fishing in his pond.

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Sean Mowbray 6 Mar 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024
Hippos in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

In climate-related flooding, a Ugandan river turns poisonous

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2024
Fisher working with net of trawling vessel.

Stalemate: WTO talks again fail to end overfishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 5 Mar 2024

Fears of marine disaster loom after fertilizer-laden ship sinks in Red Sea

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Mar 2024
Breadfruit trees produce large, potato-like fruits.

Breadfruit’s low carbon storage could be offset by fast growth, study finds

Claudia Geib 5 Mar 2024
A farmer spraying pesticides in a rice field.

Scientists and doctors raise global alarm over hormone-disrupting chemicals

Alden Wicker 4 Mar 2024
A laborer at a brickfield in Amin Bazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

To save topsoil & reduce pollution, Bangladesh moves toward alternative bricks

Abu Siddique 4 Mar 2024

Indonesians uprooted by mining industry call for a fairer future amid presidential vote

Petrus Riski, Taufik Wijaya 4 Mar 2024
Noman Masondo, a farmer in Chirundu District of Zambia, implements effective agroecological methods to cultivate his maize crop sustainably, Zambia.

Agroecological solutions better than pesticides in fighting fall armyworm, experts say

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Feb 2024
Johan Rockström.

Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize

Glenn Scherer 29 Feb 2024

Gharial conservation plan leaves Nepal fishing communities searching for new jobs

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 28 Feb 2024
The LNG carrier Shahamah in Uraga Channel, Japan.

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2024
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) hunting a spotted deer in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India.

Dholes latest wild canids likely making comeback in Nepal, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2024

Indonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Feb 2024
A boat carrying potable water from Macapá city, Amapá’s capital, by the government is stranded because of the siltation of the Amazon River in front of Livramento community.

Locals at the mouth of the Amazon River get a salty taste of climate change

Rodrigo Pedroso, Rudja Santos 26 Feb 2024

Agrochemicals take a big toll on Global South, new Atlas of Pesticides shows

Matheus Lopes Quirino 22 Feb 2024
Bagmati River flowing through Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu.

Controversy brews over proposed dam on Kathmandu’s Bagmati River

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Feb 2024
A poler bear.

Freeze on Russian collaboration disrupts urgently needed permafrost data flow

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Feb 2024
A female western hoolock gibbon with its baby.

Herbicide used in Bangladesh tea production threatens biodiversity & health

Farhana Parvin 19 Feb 2024

Climate change, extreme weather & conflict exacerbate global food crisis

Abdulkareem Mojeed, Priscilla Misiekaba-Kia, Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 19 Feb 2024
Flood victims in north-central Bangladesh in 2019.

As climate disasters claim their children, Bangladeshi mothers seek safety in bigger families

Mahadi Al Hasnat 16 Feb 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

Ecuador government weighs delaying closure of controversial ITT oil block

Maxwell Radwin 12 Feb 2024
Juanita Torremocha harvests a medicinal herb in her backyard, located near Mount Bandilaan National Park at the heart of Siquijor Island.

Traditional healers in Philippines keep their ‘forest pharmacy’ standing

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Feb 2024
African elephants

Cornell receives $35m gift for research at nexus of wildlife and health

Carolyn Cowan 9 Feb 2024

Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population

Basten Gokkon 8 Feb 2024
A nomadic community preparing a meal in Ladakh, India.

‘Healthy humans without a healthy planet is a logical fallacy’: Interview with Dr. Sakib Burza

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 6 Feb 2024
A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024
Workers at a mangrove nursery in Dam, a coastal town in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Image by Ayaz Khan for Mongabay.

Pakistan bucks global trend with 30-year mangrove expansion

Ayaz Khan 5 Feb 2024

Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2024

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