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Tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), Amazon, Brazil. Image by w_endo via iNaturalist.

Fishers fight for solutions as Brazil lists tambaqui as threatened

Karla Mendes 28 Jul 2026
Croslet horseshoe bat

Study investigates how to prevent viral spread from bat guano in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jul 2026
Tigers are territorial and must strike out to find their own territory when they leave their mothers at 18 months-two years of age and adult cats require large home ranges, making safe pathways between protected areas critical for their survival. Image © Steve Winter/Big Cat Voices.

India’s tiger numbers are rising. Protecting their pathways is next

Nirmal Ghosh 28 Jul 2026
The village of Phozi, Eastern Cape. Image by Anna Weekes for Mongabay.

‘The shape of the land will change:’ South African villages resist heavy sands mine

Anna Weekes 28 Jul 2026
Pat Lowe.

Pat Lowe spent decades describing and defending the Kimberley

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jul 2026
Oak trees in a temperate forest in the higher altitudes of the Sierra Gorda, where more than 30 species of oak trees can be found. Photo by Roberto Pedraza Ruiz.

How carbon markets can succeed & also serve Global South communities (commentary)

Pati Ruiz Corzo 27 Jul 2026

Listening to birdsong in a forest lowered a person’s stress during experiment

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jul 2026
View over a wind farm operated by Vattenfall, an energy company based in Sweden. Circular economy designs have focused largely on creating recyclable turbine blades. Experts say extending these principles across the supply chain could cut costs by increasing wind farms’ longevity and reducing material usage. Image courtesy of Vattenfall.

Scaling up offshore wind requires overcoming global and local challenges

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2026
Father Robert Athickal

Father Robert Athickal asked children to protect the living world

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Jul 2026
Shy albatross (Thalassarche cauta).

Extreme weather dampens breeding success for marine predators in Tasmania: study

Madeline Shaw 27 Jul 2026
A shipbreaker with a sledgehammer amidst ship parts, Chittagong.

Bangladesh shipbreakers push back against stricter environmental standards

Ashraful Haque 27 Jul 2026
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Major orangutan study finds Sumatran population fell nearly 20% despite slower forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong, Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Jul 2026
A data center under construction in Chonburi province, Thailand, that local residents said is being built to host Google and TikTok servers, in December 2025. Photo by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Thai MP calls for new committee to scrutinize AI data centers’ environmental impact

Gerald Flynn 27 Jul 2026
Khuiusi Khisetje. Photo by Christian Braga / ISA

Khuiusi Khisêtjê helped his people recover their land and future in the Xingu

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jul 2026
A desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) in Joshua Tree National Park. Image courtesy of Mojave Land Trust.

California solar project threatens Mojave wildlife corridor, scientists say

Hyeyoon Cho 24 Jul 2026

New treaty promises safer conditions for Indonesia’s fishing crews

M Ambari 24 Jul 2026
A mine site at Samreboi, Western Region, Ghana in 2022. Image courtesy of Erastus Asare Donkor

Ghana’s High Court sentences politician to 20 years in illegal mining case

Mabel Adorkor Annang 24 Jul 2026
Blackchin guitarfish at a landing sight in Ghana. Image courtesy of the Whitley Foundation.

One scientist’s mission to save Ghana’s disappearing guitarfish

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 24 Jul 2026
Forest Department officials along with local volunteers pose for photographs after wildlife of several species were rescued. Image by Siddiqur Rahman Rabbi.

Volunteers play crucial role in Bangladesh’s wildlife crime control efforts

Sadiqur Rahman 24 Jul 2026

Scientists call on countries to act on ‘forgotten’ sawfish teeth trade

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jul 2026
avocado plantations

In Michoacán, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study

Caitlin Cooper 23 Jul 2026

How saline drinking water raises preeclampsia risks in coastal Bangladesh (commentary)

Ashik Rubaiyat 23 Jul 2026
Cerros de Mavecure in Colombia's Guainía in July 2026. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Ten years of Mongabay Latam

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2026

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

Letícia Klein 23 Jul 2026

As Australia expands seismic testing, experts warn of profound effects on sealife

Theoné van der Merwe 22 Jul 2026
Jefferson Salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum)

Why a New England city is building tunnels to protect an imperiled salamander

Alex Megerle 22 Jul 2026
John H. Rappole. Photo courtesy of the Post Journal

Smithsonian ornithologist John Rappole reconsidered why birds migrate

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2026
Indigenous people walk through a part of the Amazon River that shows signs of drought in Santa Sofia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, 2024.

An Indigenous take on Colombia’s new gov’t: Interview with a Putumayo Indigenous leader

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2026
For some animals, roadways act like fences, and they don’t even attempt to cross. Others, like bears, moose and bighorn sheep, and some smaller species, may attempt to cross, though it may prove deadly. Image by Jane Palmer.

How to stitch a massive wildlife corridor through the Rocky Mountains

Jane Palmer 22 Jul 2026
The main phosphate factory in Gabès. Image by Khadija Ben Salah.

A Tunisian phosphate plant that sickens children so US, Europe can get fertilizer

Khadija Ben Salah, Dawn Kikel, Elisângela Mendonça 22 Jul 2026

Health fears linger in a Brazilian neighborhood built over oil waste

Leandro Barbosa 21 Jul 2026
Mobilization of residents of Kitombe village in the DRC during demonstrations on May 6 and 7 against the oil company Perenco. Image courtesy of Alphonse Khonde.

‘We couldn’t breathe’: DRC villagers revive protest against Perenco over pollution

Elodie Toto 21 Jul 2026

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