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Sir David Attenborough By BBC - Passion Planet

At 100, David Attenborough’s message is no longer just about wonder

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2026
RJ Nichole Ledesma. Via Facebook.

RJ Nichole Ledesma, chronicler of unsettled ground on Negros Island, was killed last month. He was 30.

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 May 2026
Cannon hiking through Dogon country in Mali, 2011. Image courtesy of Anne-Claire Benoit.

Why evidence matters in environmental journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2026

Tracking environmental crime in the Amazon: A conversation with Alexa Vélez

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Apr 2026
Silverback gorilla in Dzanga-Sangha, Central African Republic. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Why conservation needs stories of progress

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Apr 2026
Gerald Flynn’s first reporting trip outside of the Cambodian capital took him to Banteay Meanchey province, in the country’s northwest, near the Thai border, in 2020 to report on the impact of climate change on livelihoods. Image courtesy of Pann Bony.

Banned but not silenced: Gerry Flynn’s commitment to uncovering the truth across the Mekong

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 2 Apr 2026
Remote river in the Peruvian Amazon. © Zoom.Earth

How underinvesting in information threatens our collective well-being

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Apr 2026
Elephants in Dzanga Bai in Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Central African Republic. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Linda Dakin-Grimm and Geo Chen join Mongabay’s board as it expands global coverage

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2026
Chapalain during a workshop at the Nature, Environment, Wildlife, Filmmaking Conference in Durban, South Africa, in 2025. Image courtesy of Samuel Gichuru.

Juliette Chapalain on building networks and nurturing talent to tell Africa’s environmental stories

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 19 Mar 2026
John Cannon hiking in a snowfield in the mountains of Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks in 2024. Image courtesy of Anne-Claire Benoit.

Bringing storytelling to science: John Cannon’s approach to reporting on nature

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 5 Mar 2026
Torres (middle) conducting an interview with architect Marina Tabassum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2025. Image courtesy of Wasif Kabir.

Attention is scarce. Storytelling strategy matters more than ever

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Mar 2026
Story over a Fijian island. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Who actually uses environmental journalism — and why it matters

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Feb 2026
Rainbow over Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Letters to the future from journalism’s next generation

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Feb 2026

When environmental reporting has to outlast the news cycle

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Feb 2026

Why a healthy information ecosystem matters

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Feb 2026
Rhett Butler in the Singapore Botanical Garden in 2023. Image by Alyson Blume.

Mongabay’s Rhett Butler on building a global newsroom for local impact

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2026
A fawn sprints across a road as the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, burns in Plumas National Forest, Calif., July 8, 2021. Photo credit: AP Photo/Noah Berger

What is lost when environmental coverage is cut

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2026

Inside Mongabay with Isabel Esterman and the long arc of environmental reporting

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Feb 2026
Journalist Christ Belseran with traditional leaders of the Upau Tribe who inhabit the South Seram region, Central Maluku Regency, Maluku. Photo courtesy of titastory.id

Christ Jacob Belseran wins the Oktovianus Pogau Award for courage in journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jan 2026
Redwood forest in Big Basin, California. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

On Mongabay’s legacy

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jan 2026

Wildlife attacks and strange animal behavior — fake images spark conservation concerns

Sean Mowbray 28 Jan 2026

Staying with the story: Isabel Esterman on long-term nature reporting in Southeast Asia

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 23 Jan 2026
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

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