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Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in a dry forest in Madagascar. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Will tropical dry forests survive the next 50 years?

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jun 2025
Abundant in the Sargasso Sea (above), sargassum has been blossoming in the Caribbean and on the Amazon shore.

New study dismisses Amazon River runoff as primary cause of sargassum blooms

Julian Reingold 11 Jun 2025

Indigenous Bajo suffer child deaths & toxic sludge amid green energy push

Riza Salman 24 May 2025
Oils extracted from macaúba palm fruits can be used in a wide range of industrial processes, including foods cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Brazil bets on macaúba palm to make renewable diesel and aviation biofuel

Sean Mowbray 21 May 2025
With thick coats and broad paws, Canada lynx are supremely adapted to deep snow.

New research sheds light on Canada lynx-snowshoe hare cycle, human impacts

Ruth Kamnitzer 14 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

Armed groups and junta profit as toxic mines devour southern Myanmar

Dawei Watch 23 Apr 2025
The Sumatran belida fish is a protected species that is increasingly difficult to find in the wetlands of the Musi River, South Sumatra.

Sumatran culinary heritage at risk as environment changes around Silk Road river

Taufik Wijaya 24 Mar 2025
Across the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project in southwest Cambodia, communities have alleged abuse at the hands of the project developer. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Indigenous community calls out Cambodian REDD+ project as tensions simmer in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 10 Mar 2025
wind turbines

Brazil communities accuse companies of ‘green grabbing’ for wind energy

Jonathan Moens, Thomas Bauer 7 Mar 2025

In the drylands of northern Kenya, a ‘summer school’ for young researchers

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2025
A herder minding his goats in Isiolo County, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Pastoralists know every landscape has a history: Interview with Gufu Oba

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2025
Equipped with drones and other technologies, young people from the Yanomami Indigenous Land actively monitor their territory, which has faced a serious humanitarian and environmental crisis due to illegal gold and cassiterite mining. Image courtesy of Evilene Paixão/HAY.

Yanomami youth turn to drones to watch their Amazon territory

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Feb 2025
Ignatius Tondi, a Mekar Raya resident.

Indigenous Dayak community makes strides on Borneo toward forest autonomy

Aseanty Pahlevi 26 Feb 2025
A black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) feeding on a palm tree in Brisbane, Australia.

Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Feb 2025

On a São Paulo eco-farm, Brazil’s landless movement makes its case for occupation

Peter Speetjens 30 Jan 2025

In the Pan Amazon, inequality and informality fuel informal economies

Timothy J. Killeen 23 Jan 2025
A giant anteater in an agricultural land in the Cerrado.

‘LIFE’ scores map out where habitat loss for crops drives extinction

John Cannon 15 Jan 2025

Cameroon aims to double cacao, coffee production, yet also save forests

Yannick Kenné 14 Jan 2025
Cutting a tree with a chainsaw.

Land use change impacting seven planetary boundaries, solutions urgent, say scientists

Sean Mowbray 2 Dec 2024
Green-winged teals (Anas carolinensis) take flight over waters safeguarded in Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. Overall, the state has up to 260,000 hectares (640,000 acres) of at-risk wetlands. Photo credit: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision threatens the country’s inland wetlands with new development, study says

Anna Fitzgerald Guth 2 Dec 2024

Can cattle and wildlife co-exist in the Maasai Mara? A controversial study says yes

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Nov 2024

Cost-benefit analysis exposes ‘bogus’ promises of palm oil riches for Papuans

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2024
The reforestation team planting trees.

Across reforestation organizations, best practices claims abound, but details are scarce

Marina Martinez 2 Oct 2024
Fraser Valley as seen from Sumas Mountain.

Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later

Olivia Ferrari 7 Aug 2024

Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2024
An abandoned mining truck in Pilbara.

Study: More than half of Australia’s clean energy mines lie on Indigenous land

Aimee Gabay 24 Jun 2024
Stilt mangrove roots in West Bengal's Sundarbans.

Caught in the net: Unchecked shrimp farming transforms India’s Sundarbans

Niladry Sarkar 19 Jun 2024
Ilham Mahmudi

Unrest and arrests in Sumatra as community fights to protect mangroves

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Jun 2024

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Kevin Damasio 24 May 2024
Armed police and military forces called by a Canadian mining company carry out operations in Sigchos

As miner quells protests in Ecuador, Canadian firms’ rights record faces scrutiny

Aimee Gabay 15 May 2024

‘Our rights are on trial in Brazil’: Interview with Indigenous movement pioneer Brasílio Priprá

Amanda Magnani 6 May 2024

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