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Robson Mura, of the Mura Indigenous community, watches the sunrise at the Moyray village in Autazes, Amazonas state, February 2025.

Canadian-backed potash mine in Brazil has dried up sacred Amazon springs, say residents

Aimee Gabay 26 Oct 2026
Man in Colombia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A rare victory for multilateralism in the fight against environmental crime (commentary)

Laura Waisbich, Melina Risso, Robert Muggah 26 Oct 2026
Manaus woke up shrouded in smoke on Oct 17. In the background, the Negro River is barely visible on the horizon. Image courtesy of Juliana Pesqueira/Amazônia Real.

Amazon fires trap Manaus in smoke as authorities target arsonists

Tiago da Mota e Silva 26 Oct 2026
An elephant in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

At Yerevan’s COP17 biodiversity summit, a steep climb ahead for ‘30 by 30’ target

Ashoka Mukpo 26 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
Grey-necked rockfowl (Picathartes oreas) in Cameroon. Image © Niall Perrins via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/331794149 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Rare bird finding strengthens case to protect Congo rainforest across borders

Ryan Truscott 26 Oct 2026
A male great hornbill approaches the nest in which its mate stays with the eggs or chicks.

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Sifayet Ullah 26 Oct 2026
Lin Kuang-li stands among his Ch’ing-hsin oolong tea plants in Longyanlin village

Taiwan’s tea growers let nature take back control as climate pressures mount

Aylin Ho 26 Oct 2026
Lobe coral (Porites lobata).

Corals keep a record of pollution, pointing to a new monitoring method: Study

Edward Carver 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

Sri Lanka mourns iconic tusker amid renewed calls to address human-elephant conflict

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Oct 2026
Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)

World Kangaroo Day: How climate change impacts Australia’s macropods

Cooper Williams 24 Oct 2026
Arzu Begum stands by the door of her house in the poor Mirpur area of Dhaka in July, 2022.

Bangladesh’s climate migrants are arriving in cities unprepared to protect them

Usraat Fahmidah 23 Oct 2026
Federal environmental civil servants mobilize to reelect Lula, warning the public about environmental risks if the Bolsonaro clan returns to power. Image courtesy of Ascema Nacional.

Environmental officials fear new wave of harassment if Flavio Bolsonaro wins in Brazil

Karla Mendes 23 Oct 2026

Critics call for halt to road construction in Mexico’s Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 23 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
Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1988-2026, according to INPE.

What if Flávio Bolsonaro wins? High stakes for the environment in Brazil’s 2026 elections (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 23 Oct 2026

Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 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
Photos from the day La Rose was filed in 2019. Image courtesy of Our Children’s Trust.

Ahead of landmark climate trial in Canada, Indigenous youth eye impacts in the North

Elizabeth Rusch 23 Oct 2026

Googly-eyed buoys and kites help keep seabirds out of fishing nets, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2026

Scorched sanctuaries: The race to save Borneo’s orangutans from fires

Garry Lotulung 22 Oct 2026
Sánchez Mercado on a field trip. His research evaluates the dynamics of morichales, as well as their potential as carbon sinks that can be easily replicated in the tropical belt. Image courtesy of Miguel Angel Sánchez-Mercado.

Water, carbon & the ‘tree of life’: Interview with Venezuela’s guardian of morichales

Diego Ávila Muskus 22 Oct 2026
Illegal gold mining activity in the Pamong Besar River, Sangir, South Solok. Photo: Vinolia/Mongabay Indonesia.

Deadly gold rush continues as latest landslide kills four in Sumatra

Vinolia 22 Oct 2026
A squirrel monkey in the Amazon.

Extractive industries threaten global goal to protect 30% of nature by 2030, report finds

Aimee Gabay 21 Oct 2026
Mount Ararat. Image courtesy of Ani Adigyozalyan via Unsplash.

Nature has a new Noah’s Ark moment at the biodiversity summit (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 21 Oct 2026
A red-Footed booby (Sula sula) chick on an atoll island in the central Indian Ocean.

Seabird guano and native trees keep islands above rising seas: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Oct 2026

Bangladesh garment factory workers bear the brunt of rising temperatures

Usraat Fahmidah 21 Oct 2026
Irrigating a farm using solar-powered water pump, Kenya.

Just transition remains elusive for Kenyan women despite robust policies

Ouma Elvine Tina 21 Oct 2026
Banner image: The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

IUCN’s Madhu Rao on the world’s protected areas: Progress, pressures and the race to 2030

David Akana 21 Oct 2026
Sheep in pasture at Flag Hill Farm in Vershire, VT. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

Sustainable silvopasture is popular with US farmers despite waning financial supports

Erik Hoffner 21 Oct 2026
: Cacao (Theobroma cacao). Image courtesy of mwintirew via iNaturalist (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Heavy rains during critical period of cacao cultivation hit Ghana’s yields

Victoria Schneider 21 Oct 2026

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