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A man walks past kelp in the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Shores, San Diego.

Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going away

David Helvarg 9 Sep 2025

Goliath versus Goliath (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 20 Aug 2025
Sea fans in a coral reef in San Pedro, Belize. Image by Fabrice Dudenhofer / Ocean Image Bank.

Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs

Marco Lopez 19 Aug 2025
Supertree grove is part of the Gardens by the Bay (GBTB) urban park in Singapore, covering 105 hectares (260 acres). Image by Tien Tran (tientran0019) via Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

How urban greening is helping Singapore bounce back from widespread forest loss

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2025

Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future

Associated Press 21 Jul 2025
Beekeepers monitoring hive boxes at Kazirhat, Shariatpur.

Honey bees in Bangladesh suffer from indiscriminate pesticide use

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2025
Dr. Sheila Colla receiving the 2023 Education Award from Nature Ontario. Courtesy of Nature Ontari

Sheila Colla, advocate for bees, died on July 6th, aged 43

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2025
Banner image of a honeybee farm by Nelynnnnn via Wikimedia Commons (CCO 1.0).

As exotic pet demands rise, invertebrates need trade protections too: Study

Kristine Sabillo 11 Jul 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Restoration, protection aim to save Belize’s coral reef from extreme heat and disease

Marco Lopez 9 Jul 2025
Squat lobsters and soft coral in the deep sea.

U.S. federal agency clears ways for deep-sea mining — and companies are lining up

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jul 2025
Riding through a locust swarm in Lekiji, Samburu County, Kenya.

Agencies race to prevent new food crisis as locusts return to northern Africa

Stephanie Achieng’ 3 Jul 2025
Australia's iconic Bogong moths migrate twice a year guided by stars and the Milky Way. Image courtesy of Ajay Narendra, Macquarie University.

Bogong moths use stars and the Milky Way to make epic migration

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Jul 2025

Study reveals surge in illegal arachnid trade via Facebook in Philippines

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Jun 2025
Banner image of a longhorn crazy ant by Ajay Narendra via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Longhorn crazy ants use ‘swarm intelligence’ to clear path obstacles

Kristine Sabillo 24 Jun 2025

Broadway Mall rewilding brings native plants and wildlife to New York City

Bobby Bascomb 19 Jun 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India wins best science podcast at Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2025
A diver applies an amoxicillin paste to stony coral tissue loss disease-affected corals in Roatan, Honduras. The antibiotic paste can slow or halt lesion progression. Image by Antonio Busiello.

Researchers race to understand disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates

Ruth Kamnitzer 6 Jun 2025
Banner image: The Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa captured by the Pléiades Neo satellite. Image courtesy of the Airbus Foundation and Connected Conservation Foundation.

‘Satellites for Biodiversity’ upgrades with new projects and launches insight hub

Kristine Sabillo 26 May 2025

Without vultures, carcasses are slow to rot and disease-carrying flies abound

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2025
The 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil found in Brazil. Image courtesy of Anderson Lepeco.

World’s oldest ant fossil found in Brazil, dating back 113 million years

Shanna Hanbury 15 May 2025
A. rugioperculatus activity observed in Florida.

Invasive whiteflies pose a new threat to Bangladesh’s cash crops

Abu Siddique 15 May 2025
A giant girdled lizard, also known as a sungazer (Smaug giganteus). Image by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Traffickers slither through loopholes with wild-caught African snakes and lizards

Ryan Truscott 13 May 2025
Amazon people in the BR-163 area, such as Mariana, face challenges from the economic model imposed by agribusiness, logging and gold mining. Image by Fernando Martinho.

Lack of funds, cattle ranchers challenge Brazil’s sustainable farmers

Mongabay.com 13 May 2025
Banner image of a striped albatross butterfly (Appias libythea) on a red leea plant (Leea rubra), courtesy of NTU Singapore.

Singapore study says roadside flowers can improve urban butterfly biodiversity

Kristine Sabillo 12 May 2025

Hawaiʻi’s bone collector caterpillar wears spider’s victims to survive

Bobby Bascomb 9 May 2025
Smoke from a factory.

Ground-level ozone wreaks havoc on warming planet

Mongabay.com 9 May 2025
A fall armyworm rests upon a maize leaf it has just destroyed

Solutions needed as climate change & land use fuel global crop pest menace

Sean Mowbray 7 May 2025
Giant harvester ants. Image by sandradennis via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Kenya arrests 4 suspected ant traffickers, seizes 5,300 harvester ants

Spoorthy Raman 17 Apr 2025
Tiwai Honey Initiative product picture. Image © Ezekiel Kargbo for The Iris Project.

How a young beekeeper’s initiative brought hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 31 Mar 2025
Beekeepers monitoring hive boxes at Kazirhat, Shariatpur.

Indiscriminate pesticide use threatens Bangladesh honey bees

Sadiqur Rahman 27 Mar 2025
Banner image of a flower warehouse in Netherlands by Naaldwijk Rijksoverheid via University of Cambridge.

An arachnid in your orchid? Ornamental plant trade risks spreading invasive species

Kristine Sabillo 21 Mar 2025
A monarch butterfly. Image by Sean Ewing via Pexels.

One in five butterflies lost in the US since 2000, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 14 Mar 2025

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