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In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

World Bank’s IFC pumped $1.8b into factory farming operations since 2010

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jul 2020

Dangerous levels of heat and humidity rising in frequency, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2020
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

UK military beef supplier buys from sanctioned Brazilian farmers, investigation shows

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2020

Iran upholds heavy sentences for conservationists convicted of spying

Kayleigh Long 21 Feb 2020

Iran sentences eight conservationists convicted of spying

Kayleigh Long 26 Nov 2019

Leopards get a $20m boost from Panthera pact with Saudi prince

John Cannon 14 Jun 2019

Report: Turkish carrier is ‘poacher’s airline of choice’ for parrot trade

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2019

Global biodiversity treaty still searches for its moment in the spotlight

Isabel Esterman 3 Dec 2018

Five wildlife conservationists held by Iran could face the death penalty

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2018

Two iconic birds make a striking comeback, but much work remains

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2018

Illegal cheetah trade continues through Instagram, 4sale, YouTube

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Oct 2018
Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus). Photo courtesy Anton Khalilieh.

Bird watchers of the West Bank navigate a fraught political climate

Miriam Berger 29 Aug 2018
Palestinian bedouin in Gaza Valley dig for worms in the polluted shallow waters on Gaza’s coast to use for fishing. Photo by Kaamil Ahmed/Mongabay.

Gaza City residents’ water problems continue to compound

Kaamil Ahmed 12 Mar 2018

In post-revolution Egypt, a fierce fight over coal imports

Louise Sarant 5 Apr 2017
Lar National Park in northern Iran, about 100 kilometers from Tehran. Photo by Mahdi Kalhor via Panoramio

Three murders highlight troubles of Iran’s park rangers

Jennifer Huizen 18 Aug 2016

Fishing nets kill ‘high proportion’ of adult loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Apr 2016

Global carbon dioxide emissions stay flat for second year in a row

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2016

Hunt for rare fragrance is pushing one of world’s most expensive trees towards extinction: Al Jazeera documentary

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Mar 2016

Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?

Christopher Haslett 10 Dec 2015

‘Intolerable’ heat waves likely to hit Persian Gulf by 2100

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2015

Earthworm farming in the West Bank (commentary)

Scott Poynton 25 Nov 2014

Saudi Prince kills two percent of global population of endangered bird

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2014

The smoothtooth blacktip shark and four other species rediscovered in markets

Frank Izaguirre 21 Jan 2014

Iraq gets its first national park: just call it Eden

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2013

Syrian bald ibis may be down to a single bird

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2013

Poisonous jellyfish on the rise in the Mediterranean

Giles Tremlett 11 Jun 2013

Iraqi who is bringing back the Garden of Eden wins top environment award

John Vidal 16 Apr 2013

Asiatic cheetahs: on the road to extinction?

Erica Santana 26 Feb 2013

Scientist: releasing invasive birds in Turkey to eat ticks will backfire

Thomas Handley 4 Feb 2013

Saving the Arabian leopard, the world’s smallest leopard

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jan 2013

Hopes pinned on Obama again as Doha Climate Summit opens

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2012

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