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A giant dust storm approaches the metro area of Phoenix, Arizona, Aug. 25, 2025.

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health

Sean Mowbray 3 Oct 2025
A herd of wildebeests.

Scientists rethink Serengeti migration numbers with satellite, AI tools

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Oct 2025
The Philippine eagle is being pushed to the brink of extinction due to deforestation and unsustainable hunting.

Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction

Keith Anthony Fabro 2 Oct 2025
Cultivated meat taco produced by Ivy Farm. Photo courtesy of Ivy Farm

Protein for a crowded planet: An interview with the Good Food Institute’s Nigel Sizer

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Oct 2025
A fisher mends his net at Yettinahalla.

Turning a stream into a river: Inside India’s Yettinaholé diversion project

Shradha Triveni 2 Oct 2025
A Bali starling sings with its beak wide open

Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild

Heather Physioc 2 Oct 2025
A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2025
Miners pan for gold at a gold mine in El Callao, Bolivar state, Venezuela, Friday, April 28, 2023. Miners pan for hours in ponds where standing water fosters mosquitos that transmit diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever. Photo by: AP Photo/Matias Delacroix.

Amid Venezuela’s illegal gold heist are armed groups, gangs & elites, report says

Aimee Gabay 2 Oct 2025
The Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) is native to Europe, Asia and Africa. Image courtesy of Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).

Biodiversity is our most sophisticated information network and must be protected (commentary)

Razan Al Mubarak 2 Oct 2025
Courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute

What Jane Goodall showed me about hope

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Oct 2025
Rainbow over Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Just as Raja Ampat fetches UNESCO Biosphere Reserve title, nickel mining looms

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2025
Jane with Uruhara pant-hooting, 1996. Photo by Michael Neugebauer

Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025
After a chinchorro fishing haul, some fish considered worthless are left behind and end up rotting on the sand.

Illegal fishing threatens unique marine ecosystem in Peru

Ramiro Escobar 1 Oct 2025
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) in a tree.

Urban appetite for lemur meat piles pressure on iconic primates

Mino Rakotovao 1 Oct 2025
Tromsø Arctic Reindeer and Sami Experience in Krokelvdalen, Norway. Image by Nicolas Lafargue via Unsplash.

Climate change puts pressure on reindeer populations, both wild & domestic herds

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Oct 2025
A young Rostain takes a break along a river in French Guiana, where he started his archaeological career in the late 1980s.

Indigenous myths reveal Amazon’s past truths: Interview with Stéphen Rostain

Peter Speetjens 1 Oct 2025
The Mae Moh power plant in northern Thailand's Lampang province is a significant contributor to air pollution and has sickened residents across Mae Moh district. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Anguish for residents as Thailand’s most polluting coal plant gets new lease of life

Gerald Flynn 1 Oct 2025
Tiger on a rock.

Amid challenges, Nepal plans its latest tiger & rhino counts

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Oct 2025
Datu Cornelio Melayao points to a patch of greenery tribal members reforested decades ago.

Philippine tribes revive reforestation to defy coal mining expansion

Bong S. Sarmiento 30 Sep 2025
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

Can courts combat plastic pollution? Lessons from Indonesia (commentary)

Syahriza Alkohir Anggoro 30 Sep 2025

Consider the scorpions

Liz Kimbrough 30 Sep 2025

From South America to Asia, seahorses vanish into trafficking pipeline

Ana Cristina Alvarado 30 Sep 2025
Bouba Ndjida is one of the only sites in Central Africa where we are seeing the early signs of recovery in the population.

Northern Cameroon’s lions are reproducing, but concerns remain

Leocadia Bongben 30 Sep 2025

The Indigenous tradition sustaining Nepal’s alpine pastures amid climate change

Mukesh Pokhrel 30 Sep 2025

Indonesia aims to redraw UNESCO site boundaries to allow geothermal projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Sep 2025

Egyptian activists rally to halt hotel project at pristine protected beach

Victoria Schneider 30 Sep 2025
Tracking dog

To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas

Carolyn Cowan 30 Sep 2025
Redwood forest in California. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Conservation in a hotter world

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2025
Indigenous organizations from the Amazon basin — representing more than 511 peoples — met in Brasilia on June 2 to discuss solutions they are implementing in their territories to address the global climate crisis. Image courtesy of Passu Creativa.

Voices from the land: Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon (commentary)

Oswaldo Muca Castizo, Patricia Suárez, Oriana Cortés Muñoz, Emil Sirén Gualinga 29 Sep 2025
Farmer Mohd. Naim Razak explains how different coconut varieties have different shape of trunk.

Malaysian small-scale farmers worry about rights under proposed seed law changes

Lee Kwai Han 29 Sep 2025
Lina Ruiz and Lita Rojas outside of the court in Ucayali after hearing the first ruling. Image by Hugo Alejos.

Report finds 226 Indigenous land defenders in Peru at risk of violence

Yvette Sierra Praeli 29 Sep 2025
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Environment Minister Marina Silva attend the launch of a program to reduce deforestation and forest fires in the Amazon, in April 2024.

New deal pushes Amazon’s controversial ‘tipping point road’ ahead

Rafael Spuldar 29 Sep 2025

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