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A representation of a bisected nautilus.

Supporting journalism: The catalytic role of independently verified information (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Oct 2025

Beatriz Matos (left) and Alessandra Sampaio (right), widows of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips,

Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira ‘would be killed again,’ Indigenous leader says

Karla Mendes 24 Oct 2025

Willie Shubert in Madagascar with lemurs at a rehabilitation center. Note: visitors are not permitted to touch lemurs, but lemurs do as they please. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Measuring success in trees, not clicks

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Oct 2025

Mongabay founder Rhett Butler wins the Henry Shaw Award

Bobby Bascomb 7 Oct 2025

Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes receives the 2025 John B. Oakes award on Sept. 18. Image courtesy of Sirin Samman.

Oakes Award delivers top prize to Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2025

Lolita Cabrera (Maya K’iche’), an Indigenous rights activist from Guatemala. Photo by Jamie Malcom-Brown/ Cultural Survival.

Bridging Indigenous and Western knowledge with science and radio

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 24 Sep 2025

Mongabay founder Rhett Butler named to Forbes Sustainability Leaders List

Bobby Bascomb 19 Sep 2025

Waterfall in the Upper Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

How journalism helps turn information into outcomes

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Sep 2025

White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. These spires are estimated to be around 45 million years old and form a natural version of a Japanese garden. This beach is part of Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Image by Mike DiGirolamo for Mongabay.

Don’t quit: A podcaster’s charge to listeners & fellow humans (commentary)

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Aug 2025

A full-circle rainbow arcing over a vast oil palm plantation in Jambi, Indonesia, carved out of what was once native rainforest. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

The case for hope in environmental journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2025

Lúcio Flávio Pinto

Lúcio Flávio Pinto: The Brazilian reporter who wouldn’t be bought or silenced

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Aug 2025

Torres in the Amazon in 2024. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

She built a newsroom across 7 countries—Here’s how she did it

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2025

River in the Kosnipata valley, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Empathy and spiritual ecology are a conservation solution and ‘radical cure’

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Jul 2025

Akana at Nyungwe National Park in southern Rwanda. While the park is best known for its chimpanzees, as well as owl-faced and colobus monkeys, the canopy walkway offers a unique vantage point over the valley and surrounding forests. Photo by Kuimo Donald.

From sports desk to nature’s frontlines: David Akana’s unlikely path to lead Mongabay Africa

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2025

Sandhya Sekar in Kerala, India in 2025; Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

From intern to Mongabay India director in less than 4 years: Sandhya Sekar’s journey

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jul 2025

Artist Bhajju Shyam paints himself immersed in nature, playing the Bana and singing traditional songs. Photo by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay India.

Mongabay India on making environmental stories accessible in Hindi

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2025

A river in the Amazon rainforest interior of Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jun 2025

British journalist Dom Phillips on a 2022 trip to the Brazilian Amazon.

Finishing Dom Phillips’ posthumous book was ‘the hardest thing emotionally’ co-authors say

Karla Mendes 18 Jun 2025

Gopi Warrier in Kerala in May 2025. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Rigorous, not righteous: How Gopi Warrier helped build Mongabay India’s newsroom

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2025

Author Sangeeta Waldron at a book launch event. Image courtesy of Sangeeta Waldron.

Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes profiled in new book on climate leaders

Mongabay.com 27 May 2025

Sebastião Salgado. Courtesy of Instituto Terra

Photographer Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025) planted a forest and grew a global movement

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 May 2025

Ridzki in Jambi in 2022.

How Mongabay Indonesia grew into a trusted environmental voice: Interview with Ridzki Sigit

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 May 2025

Mongabay Founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler. Image by Mongabay.

Reflections on 20 years of Mongabay News (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Apr 2025

Ochieng’ Ogodo, science journalist, mentor, and editor, died on April 17th, aged 64

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2025

Mongabay mourns the loss of Ochieng’ Ogodo, our East Africa Editor

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2025

Blue dart frog. Image by Rhett Butler.

The currency of impact: Why nonprofit models might be the future of serious journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2025

Reserva Narupa, Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

Why the nonprofit newsroom model is vital to Mongabay’s impact

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Apr 2025

Global “Honors” for Environmental Journalism (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 11 Mar 2025

A fisherman at the Laa River, North Morowali, cleans clams before selling them.

‘Without us, no scrutiny’: Indonesia’s independent media count cost of US funding cuts

Jeff Hutton 6 Mar 2025

Cambodia denies re-entry to Mongabay journalist who reported on illegal logging

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2025

Chhoeung Chheng attending the Siem Reap Water Festival in November 2024. Image courtesy of Facebook.

Environmental journalist in Cambodia shot and killed by suspected logger

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 11 Dec 2024

Rainforest rainbow in Sabah. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Environmental journalism as the link between local and global (commentary)

Gustavo Faleiros 27 Nov 2024

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