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A worker repairs used electronic equipment at an electronics repair shop in Kuala Lumpur, 2017.

Malaysia clamps down on toxic trade with total e-waste import ban

Ashley Yeong 20 Jul 2026
A mixed flock of curlew sandpipers and gray plovers feed in shallow water at the salt mine in Velddrif, in South Africa’s Western Cape province, where the team captured 20 sandpipers and three plovers for the tracking project. Image courtesy of Cassie Carstens.

Tiny trackers reveal where migratory shorebirds need protection across Africa

Ryan Truscott 20 Jul 2026
Women and youth entrepreneurs in Kenya receiving training in clean cooking techniques. Image courtesy of UNDP Kenya.

Clean cooking expands at record pace in Africa, but lags behind population growth

Ini Ekott 20 Jul 2026

Scientific & traditional knowledge are key for effective & community-centered conservation (commentary)

Charudutt Mishra 20 Jul 2026

From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon

Tiago da Mota e Silva 20 Jul 2026

Peru’s only penguin species at risk from upcoming El Niño and bird flu, experts warn

Dan Collyns 20 Jul 2026
Florida Manatee. Photo credit: Robert Bonde / USGS

America’s retreat from wildlife protection will be felt far beyond its borders

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Jul 2026
A local community takes part in a tree plantation project in 2018.

Conservationists urge caution over Bangladesh’s plan to plant 250 million trees

Abu Siddique 20 Jul 2026

Can ‘fog harvesting’ help solve water scarcity in Chile’s Atacama Desert?

Maxwell Radwin 17 Jul 2026
Under difficult circumstances when food is scarce, capuchin monkeys alter their behavior.

How Costa Rica’s extreme climate changes the social behaviors of white-faced capuchin

Adam Litchkofski 17 Jul 2026

Can harpy eagles attack humans? Amazon case rekindles scientific debate

Tiago Mota e Silva 17 Jul 2026
Olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings walk to the sea in Mexico.

How a community is helping sea turtles hatch in the Philippines

Rachel Duckett 17 Jul 2026
A split-view image of an underwater seascape and coastline of Mussau Island, within the Manus Marine Protected Area, Papua New Guinea.

Melanesian nations announce intention to create massive ocean reserve corridor

Ashley Yeong 17 Jul 2026
A man displays a photo he says shows toxic chemicals spilled due to oil drilling, in Moanda, western Democratic Republic of Congo, 2023.

Fighting new oil blocks in the Congo Basin: Interview with activist Pascal Mirindi

Dan Yessa 17 Jul 2026
A fisher casts a net in the Mahanadi River in Odisha. Image by Sujit kumar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Rivers are not just water bodies: Interview with the Waterman Of Odisha

Stephin Thomas 17 Jul 2026

Ancient rock structures help restore biodiversity on the US-Mexico border

Rose Shimberg 17 Jul 2026
Ronald Sanabria. From his Facebook account.

Ronald Sanabria sought to make tourism more sustainable

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jul 2026
Mongabay producer Juan Maza and freelance videographer Jose Gomez in the proposed Kwa National Park in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘Chasing Deforestation’ in Liberia: Behind the scenes with Mongabay

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jul 2026
Packaging cocoa beans in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jul 2026

From Mardi Gras to marsh: Glass Half Full turns party glass into Louisiana coastline

Liz Kimbrough 16 Jul 2026

Invasive giant prawn spreads through protected areas in Brazil

Evanildo da Silveira 16 Jul 2026
A bull elk reintroduced to Kentucky. Image courtesy of Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife.

‘Beasts of the East’ chronicles the unheralded restoration successes of America’s eastern wildlife

Erik Hoffner 16 Jul 2026
Sea thickening project in the Arctic

In the Canadian Arctic, an experiment aims to stabilize thinning sea ice

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jul 2026
Grist / Getty Images / Dionne Phillips.

Indigenous advocates push for rights protections around AI data centers

Aimee Gabay 16 Jul 2026
Baobab (Adansonia digitata) in Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo.

Like ‘climbing Kilimanjaro’ without help: Interview with a Limpopo conservationist

Bernard Chiguvare 15 Jul 2026
The Katas Raj Temples and the pond, 2014.

No corporation can buy the ‘right to destroy’: Interview with activist Raja Waseem Ahmed

Muhammad Talal 15 Jul 2026
A local community in Karenni collected garbage in 2025.

Community conservation under fire: Interview with Myanmar’s Clean Mountains founder

Esther J 15 Jul 2026
Six-tubercled Amazon River turtle (Podocnemis sextoberculata). Image by © Andrés Camilo Montes-Correa via iNaturalist.

Brazil lists the Amazon river turtle as endangered for the first time

Karla Mendes 15 Jul 2026
Sitesh Ranjan Deb at his facility. Image via Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Sitesh Ranjan Deb turned a hunter’s knowledge to saving wildlife

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2026
An adult cheetah spotted at a monitoring site in Limpopo Province. In the background is a still closed trap cage, which was placed there during the census to capture cheetahs for collaring. Image courtesy of the Ashia Cheetah Conservation.

South Africa’s free-roaming cheetahs in steep decline, first national census finds

Victoria Schneider 15 Jul 2026

In India’s Western Ghats, sacred groves are better at growing future forests

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2026
Raja Ampat

Warming world could push Southeast Asia forests toward thermal limits, new study

Carolyn Cowan 15 Jul 2026

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