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Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2025

Night dives reveal hidden alliances between young fish and larval anemones

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Oct 2025

Scientists map Italy’s entire coast to guide seagrass and marine recovery

Manuela Callari 31 Oct 2025
Hagar Kudzordi Widow of Samuel Abayateye, looks at photos of her deceased husband, hoping to get answers. Image by Gideon Anku

A fisheries observer disappeared at sea. His family still waits for answers

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2025

Amid systemic corruption, Amazon countries struggle to fight environmental crime

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2025
Annual deforestation in the Legal Amazon (Amazonia) from 1988-2025, according to a preliminary estimate from Brazil's national space research institute, INPE.

Heading into COP, Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate is falling. What about fires?

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2025

First documented case of plant smelling like an ant to attract pollinators

Liz Kimbrough 30 Oct 2025
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Image by Dr. Wayne Trivelpiece via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Norway’s proposal to double krill harvests raises tension at Antarctic conservation summit

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2025

In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone

Madalitso Wills Kateta 30 Oct 2025

In Rio’s largest favela, used oil becomes soap and social change

André Aram 30 Oct 2025

On first International Day of the Deep Seabed, we seek stewardship and consensus (commentary)

Leticia Carvalho 30 Oct 2025
A turkey moray in a coral reef in Mauritius.

In Mauritius, an NGO is tracking the sex life of corals to save them

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Oct 2025

Mauritius rethinks coral restoration as reefs suffer from another mass bleaching

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Oct 2025

With ‘terrifying’ trade in African hornbills, scientists call for increased protection

Spoorthy Raman 29 Oct 2025
A shark is hauled into the hold of the Pedra da Grelo, a Spanish longliner targeting swordfish in the south Atlantic ocean.

Report finds dangerous mercury levels, highlights mislabeling in shark meat sold in EU

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Oct 2025

Landmark conviction exposes Sri Lanka’s deep-rooted illegal elephant trade

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Oct 2025
Rüppell's vultures pictured in Kenya’s Masai Mara — these endangered birds raise only one chick per year. Image by Thomas Fuhrmann via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Colony of world’s highest-flying bird under threat in Uganda

Ryan Truscott, Musinguzi Blanshe 29 Oct 2025
Missing fisheries observer Samuel Abayateye.

Two years later, no closure for family of missing Ghanaian fisheries observer

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 29 Oct 2025
Annapurna mountains.

Ousted Nepal gov’t cleared easier path for controversial cable cars, documents show

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Oct 2025
Austin and his technician, Nathan Tang, searching the sand dunes for insects at Death Valley National Park

California’s grand insect census

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2025
A boy kicks a soccer ball near signage for the COP30 U.N. Climate Conference in Belem, Brazil, March 23, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Jorge Saenz.

Belém faces its social and natural demons as host to COP30

Peter Speetjens 28 Oct 2025

Drax pellet mill wins appeal to raise pollution limits in small Mississippi town

Justin Catanoso 28 Oct 2025

Virus outbreak deepens rift over return of Spix’s macaw to Brazil

Miguel Monteiro 28 Oct 2025
Tree seedlings at a nursery set up in the village of Koyli Alpha to support the Great Green Wall initiative in Senegal © Benedicte Kurzen/NOOR for FAO

Senegal’s great green wall progress falters amid unfulfilled pledges: Study

Yannick Kenné 28 Oct 2025

Nuns, scientists & microchips: An alliance to save Mexico’s achoque salamanders

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2025
Communities in the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin have activities such as livestock farming, agriculture, crafts and tourism. Image courtesy of Clemente Flores.

Lithium mining may threaten a precious resource — water: Voices from the land (commentary)

Clemente Flores 27 Oct 2025
A Jordanian Bedouin boy leads a tourist on a camel through the ancient city of Petra, Jordan. World Cultural Heritage sites made out of stone are at risk from the effects of severe weather and climate change.

Climate change is wreaking havoc on World Cultural Heritage sites, study finds

Shradha Triveni 27 Oct 2025
Dozens of Mashco Piro people appeared on a riverbank in Peru in 2024, just a few miles from logging concessions. The Mascho Piro are Indigenous nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit Manú National Park in the Madre de Dios region of Peru. They have in the past actively avoided contact with outsiders.

Report urges full protection of world’s 196 uncontacted Indigenous peoples

Sue Branford 27 Oct 2025
Abu Nessma at the café by the sea.

‘A very successful story’: An Egypt tribe welcomes tourists & protects its coast

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025
Leaching ponds have been drilled into the mountains of Laos, using a mix of toxic chemicals to separate the rare earth minerals from the other materials siphoned out of the ground. Image supplied by source.

Rare earth mining expands into Laos, threatening entire Mekong River

Mongabay 27 Oct 2025
A representation of a bisected nautilus.

Why independent journalism is a strategic investment for philanthropy (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Oct 2025

FSC to vote on new traceability rules amid fraud allegations

Philip Jacobson 26 Oct 2025

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