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Indigenous youth playing soccer in the rain in northeastern Peru. Image by Gloria Pallares for Mongabay.

Mongabay’s investigative reporting won top environmental journalism awards in 2025

Bobby Bascomb 31 Dec 2025
Tatiana Schlossberg. Photo by Steven Senne/Associated Press

Tatiana Schlossberg, environmental journalist, has died, aged 35

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2025
Seema Lokhandwala records elephant calls at Kaziranga National Park. Image courtesy of Vijay Bedi.

Mongabay’s multimedia reporting wins international journalism prizes in 2025

Bobby Bascomb 30 Dec 2025
Rainbow over the Borneo rainforest -- sabah_3512

How Mongabay’s journalism made an impact in 2025

Bobby Bascomb 29 Dec 2025
White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. Iwate prefecture. 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 the Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Photo by Mike DiGirolamo/Mongabay.

The top 10 most listened-to podcasts of 2025 from Mongabay

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2025
Mongabay contributor Glòria Pallarès won the ACE Award in Doha, Qatar. Image courtesy of the ACE Award.

Mongabay contributor Glòria Pallarès wins top anti-corruption reporting award

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2025
Background: rainforest in Brunei. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The value of journalism in the AI era

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2025

From Kalimantan’s haze to Jakarta’s grit: A journalist’s journey

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Dec 2025
Deforestation in Borneo, Malaysia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Balancing evidence and empathy in an age of doubt

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2025

How dropping ads set us free to focus on impact

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Dec 2025
Where cars go to die: an auto graveyard.

A ‘Life After Cars’ can provide huge human health and environmental benefits

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Dec 2025
Illegal air strips identified during the investigation.

Mongabay Latam wins the Global Shining Light Award for investigative journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Nov 2025

Bearing witness to Indonesia’s environmental challenges: Sapariah Saturi

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2025
Rhett Ayers Butler in Brunei in November 2025. Photo by Aaron.

Mongabay founder Rhett Butler wins Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Prize

Bobby Bascomb 19 Nov 2025
Akhyari Hananto. Courtesy of Hananto

From rock music to rainforests: Akhyari Hananto’s unlikely path to impact

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2025

Letters to the Future

13 Nov 2025
Rhett Butler in the Singapore Botanical Garden in 2023. Image by Alyson Blume.

The secret to building a global newsroom? Lead with impact, says Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 13 Nov 2025
Volunteers clean up plastic and other waste materials on a beach on the Arabian Sea coast on World Environment Day in Mumbai. Environmental crises are lived experiences for young generations today — including journalists. Image by AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File.

Early-career journalists join the next wave of environmental reporting (commentary)

Shradha Triveni 7 Nov 2025
A man wearing a face mask reads newspaper outside a shopping mall in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in January 2021. Malaysian authorities imposed tighter restrictions on movement to try to halt the spread of COVID-19. Image by AP Photo/Vincent Thian.

Strong ethics set journalists apart in a changing information landscape (commentary)

Lee Kwai Han 7 Nov 2025
Girl with a seedling in Northern California. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Investing in the next generation of environmental journalists (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2025
The last photo taken between Rhett Butler and Jane Goodall--who shared a friendship for nearly 15 years--at the Forbes Sustainability Leadership Summit. Photo by Sofia Negron.

Rhett Butler reflects on recent accolades, and Jane Goodall’s legacy of hope

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Nov 2025

Youth, hope & the role of environmental journalism in building a better future (commentary)

Fernanda Biasoli 4 Nov 2025
A representation of a bisected nautilus.

Why independent journalism is a strategic investment for philanthropy (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

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