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Park guide Luana Wanessa Assunção points at the remarkable Painel do Pilão, which could be the first-ever solar calendar of the Americas. Image by Peter Speetjens.

Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil

Peter Speetjens 4 Aug 2025
Resident Huỳnh Ngọc Vân at his old seaside home, surrounded by demolished houses cleared for the project, late April 2025.

Rapid development, legal changes put pressure on Vietnam’s forestland

Le Quynh 4 Aug 2025
Hydropower dam in Kulekhani, one of the larges reservoir-type power stations in Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/ Mongabay.

Nepal’s hydropower developers watch closely as court nears key verdict

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Aug 2025
Banner image of a remotely operated vehicle KIEL 6000 holding a manganese nodule in the sought-after Clarion-Clipperton Zone by the ROV-Team/GEOMAR via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

UN meeting closes with no moratorium on deep-sea mining; groups lament

Kristine Sabillo 1 Aug 2025

Ecuador axes environment ministry as officials scramble to revive economy

Maxwell Radwin 1 Aug 2025
A red-lored amazon.

DNA research changes the fate of the most trafficked parrots in Colombia

Ana Cristina Alvarado 1 Aug 2025

Jailed Vietnamese civil society leader wins award, boosting calls for his release

Jenny Denton 1 Aug 2025

Uncovering forest loss in gorilla park six months after M23 offensive in the DRC

Elodie Toto, Latoya Abulu 31 Jul 2025
Plastic washed up on a beach in Barcelona.

As UN plastic treaty talks face possible deadlock, what are the ways forward?

Tosca Ballerini 31 Jul 2025
Isidrio Hernandez-Ruiz and his son are participants of the collaborative reforestation trial with Smithsonian and Traditional Leadership.

Indigenous leadership and science revive Panama’s degraded lands

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2025
A view of Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, a small city on the southwest coast. Image courtesy of ICC.

‘Nothing about us without us’: Inuit leader Sara Olsvig on ocean politics

Edward Carver 31 Jul 2025
An Indigenous group in a boat in the Ucayali River.

Recently contacted Indigenous in Peru want REDD+ and conservationists to stay away

Kimberley Brown 31 Jul 2025
A leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea).

Malaysia’s turtle egg buyback scheme saved thousands — but is it sustainable?

Keith Anthony Fabro 31 Jul 2025
Mobula munkiana rays in the Sea of Cortez. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Guarding Mexico’s blue frontiers: A conversation with Alejandro González

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jul 2025
The Indigenous Tompoun community celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day in 2024. Image courtesy of Tompoun Culture.

How Cambodia’s new environmental code undermines Indigenous peoples’ rights (commentary)

Rithy Bun 30 Jul 2025
Miners work at a legal mining concession in Huaypetue, Madre de Dios, Peru. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Mexico’s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2025
Banner image of stream restoration being done in Aarhus, Denmark. Image courtesy of Casper Tybjerg/TTF.

Ambitious Denmark project starts farm-to-forest conversion

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jul 2025

As Indonesia reclaims forests from palm oil, smallholders bear brunt of enforcement

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jul 2025
Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka Supreme Court orders $1 bn payment in X Press Pearl marine disaster

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Jul 2025

Civil society challenges Indonesian deregulation law over rights and environment

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jul 2025
Indigenous Lumad women hold slogans during a rally outside a military headquarters in the Philippines in 2018

Across Southeast Asia, Indigenous women challenge extraction and erasure

Hướng Thiện 25 Jul 2025
Sifting coffee beans in Porciuncula, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

‘Insignificant risk’ EUDR proposal threatens fight against deforestation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2025

Mounting corporate pressure on Honduras threatens community rights

Aimee Gabay 24 Jul 2025
Campaigners in The Hague, Netherlands, where the ICJ gave its advisory opinion. Image courtesy of Tengbeh Kamara/Greenpeace.

Historic court ruling says countries legally bound to prevent climate harm

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2025
A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

Indonesian palm oil company sues experts who helped secure $18m pollution ruling

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2025
The Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Ecuador’s new protected areas law sparks debate over security, development

Maxwell Radwin 23 Jul 2025
The endangered dhole is also known as the Asiatic wild dog.

Nepal launches action plan to boost endangered dhole conservation

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025
Paulo Paulino Guajajara, from left, with Laércio Guajajara, Karla Mendes and Olimpio Guajajara during Mendes's 2019 reporting trip. Paulo was killed in an ambush nine months later. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes wins 2025 Oakes Award for environmental journalism

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025

Nickel boom on an Indonesian island brings toxic seas, lost incomes, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jul 2025
Banner image of a cattle ranch in the Paraguayan Chaco by Peer V via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Pasture and agricultural expansion in Gran Chaco drive biodiversity loss: Study

Kristine Sabillo 23 Jul 2025
A woman sits under a tree surrounded by dry waste in East Java.

Burning, burying and banning: Indonesia’s cities struggle to manage their garbage

Jeff Hutton 23 Jul 2025

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