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A woman cleans a blanket in algae-filled water on the banks of Wular Lake in Kashmir.

Kashmir’s water bodies have declined for decades. Is conservation keeping pace?

Hashim Quraishi 9 Sep 2026
A man travels along a street in his wheelchair in Freetown, Sierra Leone

When climate-related hazards rise, so do barriers for people with disabilities

Patricia Sia Ngevao 9 Sep 2026

Ebola outbreak underscores food insecurity crisis in DRC

Dan Yessa 3 Sep 2026
Commuters wade through heavy floodwater after a downpour in Lagos. Image courtesy of Folakemi Olaoni.

Rapid wetland loss and ‘real estate boom’ increasing flood risk in Lagos

Kingsley Charles 2 Sep 2026
Angora goats, which produce mohair. Image © Samantha Reinders.

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big money, high stakes in emerging spekboom restoration sector

Leonie Joubert 27 Aug 2026
Activists in Myanmar protest against the Myitsone Dam project in this 2019 file photo. Image by AP Photo/Thein Zaw.

Myanmar junta pushes to restart Myitsone Dam project

Esther J 13 Aug 2026
The black-and-white snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) is found in Yunnan, China. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr. (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Protecting primates could protect thousands of other species, study finds

Muhammad Talal 7 Aug 2026
Stranded whale calf in Mumbai. Image courtesy of Shaunak Modi.

What happens after a whale strands on a Mumbai beach?

Stephin Thomas 6 Aug 2026
Krishansar Lake sits at more than 3,700 meters in the Ganderbal district of the Kashmir Valley. Image by Rohit Sharma via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Introduced fish thrive amid Kashmir’s freshwater habitat degradation

Hashim Quraishi 3 Aug 2026

Heat stress is rising globally, raising health concerns for billions: Study

Patricia Sia Ngevao 27 Jul 2026
The main phosphate factory in Gabès. Image by Khadija Ben Salah.

A Tunisian phosphate plant that sickens children so US, Europe can get fertilizer

Khadija Ben Salah, Dawn Kikel, Elisângela Mendonça 22 Jul 2026
A man displays a photo he says shows toxic chemicals spilled due to oil drilling, in Moanda, western Democratic Republic of Congo, 2023.

Fighting new oil blocks in the Congo Basin: Interview with activist Pascal Mirindi

Dan Yessa 17 Jul 2026
A fisher casts a net in the Mahanadi River in Odisha. Image by Sujit kumar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Rivers are not just water bodies: Interview with the Waterman of Odisha

Stephin Thomas 17 Jul 2026
Mongabay producer Juan Maza and freelance videographer Jose Gomez in the proposed Kwa National Park in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘Chasing Deforestation’ in Liberia: Behind the scenes with Mongabay

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jul 2026
Packaging cocoa beans in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jul 2026
Baobab (Adansonia digitata) in Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo.

Like ‘climbing Kilimanjaro’ without help: Interview with a Limpopo conservationist

Bernard Chiguvare 15 Jul 2026
The Katas Raj Temples and the pond, 2014.

No corporation can buy the ‘right to destroy’: Interview with activist Raja Waseem Ahmed

Muhammad Talal 15 Jul 2026
A local community in Karenni collected garbage in 2025.

Community conservation under fire: Interview with Myanmar’s Clean Mountains founder

Esther J 15 Jul 2026
Through the Mazingira Women Initiative, Hamida has spent those years organizing around waste management, smart farming, land rights and women’s leadership.

Waste, women & environmental justice: Interview with Nubian activist Malasen Hamida

Ouma Elvine Tina 14 Jul 2026

Humans’ relationship with nature: Interview with ethnobotanist Pavel Partha

Usraat Fahmidah 13 Jul 2026
Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo rows a shikara across the Khushalsar-Gilsar wetland system in Srinagar

Restoring Kashmir’s lakes one community at a time: Interview with Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo

Hashim Quraishi 10 Jul 2026
A western chimpanzee at Tacugama.

Conserving Sierra Leone’s western chimpanzees: Interview with Tacugama’s Willie Tucker

Patricia Sia Ngevao 10 Jul 2026
A hooded vulture landing on its roost in Lagos.

Confronting culture to protect vultures: Interview with Nigeria’s Michael Williams

Kingsley Charles 8 Jul 2026
Wild horses gallop on the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation near McDermitt, Nevada. Image by AP Photo / Rick Bowmer.

U.S. defense spending on critical minerals surges in the last decade

Aimee Gabay 10 Jun 2026
Model of Jiaolong submersible at the Five-Year Achievements Exhibition. Image by N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How we tracked China’s deep-sea mining fleet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Kara Fox 1 Jun 2026

European Commission linked leather to deforestation, then ignored it

Elisângela Mendonça, Emmanuelle Picaud 28 May 2026
Louis Vuitton bag.

EU moves to drop leather from deforestation law after industry lobbying

Elisângela Mendonça 5 May 2026
Lula and Macron during a bilateral meeting at Guajará Bay.

Brazil FOIA confirms Lula & Macron talked before key CITES vote on endangered tree

Spoorthy Raman, Fernanda Wenzel, Emmanuelle Picaud 23 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

China’s deep-sea mining fleet may also track US submarines

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Kara Fox 24 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

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